SugarCRM 7.7.0.0 recordList for modules API

Question

I am calling this API http://{site_url}/SugarPro/rest/v10/Accounts

I need to sort accounts in ascending order with respect to their distance from current logged in user (I will calculate distance using address of logged in user and specific account). I tried to use {before_respond} API logic hook to calculate distances and sort the response. But it looks a bad practice to use this hook as it will be fired for every API request.

The other way around is to extend the API that is being used for this request. But I am unable to find the file that is being used in this request. Can someone please guide me to find which Api file is being used in this request?

Or any other better way to get the desired result.

Note: I want this behavior only for mobile view of SugarCRM and SugarCRM Mobile app

Thanks

Atif Hussain · Accepted Answer

Hi Francesca, Thanks for the time to respond. Actually the API is clients/base/api/FilterApi.php with request type GET. This API is also used by all modules to retrieve a list of records (either filtered or all). I have created a custom API which is extending to this API in directory custom/clients/base/api Here is my code in case some one have similar problem. if(!defined('sugarEntry') || !sugarEntry) die('Not A Valid Entry Point');

require_once("clients/base/api/FilterApi.php");

class CustomFilterApi extends FilterApi 
{ 
 public function registerApiRest() { 
 return array(
 'filterModuleAll' => array(
 'reqType' => 'GET',
 'path' => array('<module>'),
 'pathVars' => array('module'),
 'method' => 'filterList',
 'jsonParams' => array('filter'),
 'shortHelp' => 'List of all records in this module',
 'longHelp' => 'include/api/help/module_filter_get_help.html',
 'exceptions' => array(
 // Thrown in filterList
 'SugarApiExceptionInvalidParameter',
 // Thrown in filterListSetup and parseArguments
 'SugarApiExceptionNotAuthorized',
 ),
 'extraScore' => 2, // This parameter will give this API prescedence over the original API 
 ),
 ); 
 } 
 //override to modify this function of the FilterApi endpoint 
 public function filterList(ServiceBase $api, array $args, $acl = 'list')
 {
 if (!empty($args['q'])) {
 if (!empty($args['filter'])||!empty($args['deleted'])) {
 // These flags can be used with the filter API, but not with the search API
 throw new SugarApiExceptionInvalidParameter();
 }
 // We need to use unified search for this for compatibilty with Nomad
 require_once('clients/base/api/UnifiedSearchApi.php');
 $search = new UnifiedSearchApi();
 $args['module_list'] = $args['module'];
 return $search->globalSearch($api, $args);
 }
 
 $api->action = 'list';
 list($args, $q, $options, $seed) = $this->filterListSetup($api, $args, $acl);

$result = $this->runQuery($api, $args, $q, $options, $seed);
 if ($args['module'] == "Accounts") {
 // you can manipulate response for your specific module
 }
 return $result;
 }
}