# Redux Resource Action Creators

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This library makes it more convenient to create valid [request actions](https://redux-resource.js.org/requests/request-actions). It helps out in two ways:

1. Remembering the [request action types](https://redux-resource.js.org/api-reference/action-types) can be difficult
2. Often times, your "start" and "end" actions share many properties, and it can feel like unnecessary

   boilerplate to copy + paste those properties

Unlike [Redux Resource XHR](https://redux-resource.js.org/extras/redux-resource-xhr), these action creators do not make the requests for you. All this library does is create the actions themselves.

## Other Guides

**Old Documentation**

* [1.x documentation](https://github.com/jamesplease/redux-resource/blob/master/packages/redux-resource-action-creators/docs/old-versions/1.md)

**Migration Guides**

* [v1 to v2](https://github.com/jamesplease/redux-resource/blob/master/packages/redux-resource-action-creators/docs/migration-guides/1-to-2.md)

## Installation

Install `redux-resource-action-creators` from npm:

`npm install redux-resource-action-creators --save`

Then, import `createActionCreators` in your application:

```javascript
import createActionCreators from 'redux-resource-action-creators';
```

## Usage

This library has a single export, `createActionCreators`.

## `createActionCreators( crudAction, actionDefaults )`

### Arguments

1. `crudAction`: *(String)* The CRUD operation being performed. One of "create", "read", "update", or "delete". This determines the [CRUD Action types](https://redux-resource.js.org/api-reference/action-types) that are dispatched.
2. `actionDefaults` *(Object)*: Properties that will be included on each dispatched action. The [Request Action guide](https://redux-resource.js.org/requests/request-actions) lists possible options, such as `resourceType` and `resources`. You *must* include `resourceType`.

### Returns

(*`Object`*): An object with four methods: `pending`, `succeeded`, `failed`, and `idle`. These action creators return actions for you, based on the action properties that you provide to them.

### Example

```javascript
import createActionCreators from 'redux-resource-action-creators';
import store from './store';

const readActionCreators = createActionCreators('read', {
  resourceType: 'books',
  requestKey: 'getHomePageBooks',
  list: 'homePageBooks',
  mergeListIds: false
});

store.dispatch(readActionCreators.pending());

const req = fetchData((err, res, body) => {
  if (req.aborted) {
    store.dispatch(readActionCreators.idle());
  } else if (err) {
    store.dispatch(readActionCreators.failed());
  } else {
    store.dispatch(readActionCreators.succeeded({
      resources: body
    }));
  }
});
```

To understand why you might use this library, compare that example versus this common Redux Resource code:

```javascript
import { actionTypes } from 'redux-resource';
import store from './store';

store.dispatch({
  type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_PENDING,
  resourceType: 'books',
  requestKey: 'getHomePageBooks',
  list: 'homePageBooks'
});

const req = fetchData((err, res, body) => {
  if (req.aborted) {
    store.dispatch({
      type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_NULL,
      resourceType: 'books',
      requestKey: 'getHomePageBooks',
      list: 'homePageBooks'
    });
  } else if (err) {
    store.dispatch({
      type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_FAILED,
      resourceType: 'books',
      requestKey: 'getHomePageBooks',
      list: 'homePageBooks'
    });
  } else {
    store.dispatch(readActionCreators.succeeded({
      type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_SUCCEEDED,
      resourceType: 'books',
      requestKey: 'getHomePageBooks',
      list: 'homePageBooks',
      resources: body
    }));
  }
});
```

All that this library does is provides a simple pattern to write less, more expressive code. If you'd like, you could get many of the same benefits by defining shared action properties, and then spreading them in your actions:

```javascript
import { actionTypes } from 'redux-resource';
import store from './store';

const actionDefaults = {
  resourceType: 'books',
  requestKey: 'getHomePageBooks',
  list: 'homePageBooks'
};

store.dispatch({
  ...actionDefaults,
  type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_PENDING,
});

const req = fetchData((err, res, body) => {
  if (req.aborted) {
    store.dispatch({
      ...actionDefaults,
      type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_NULL,
    });
  } else if (err) {
    store.dispatch({
      ...actionDefaults,
      type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_FAILED,
    });
  } else {
    store.dispatch(readActionCreators.succeeded({
      ...actionDefaults,
      type: actionTypes.READ_RESOURCES_SUCCEEDED,
      resources: body
    }));
  }
});
```