How to read System Config Values?

[dianasalsa]

Maybe I'm blind, but I can't seem to find anything in the frontends documentation about how to read system config values.
I have also not found anything in the store API documentation itself...
Is this really not supported? Or is the documentation simply not done yet?

I mean, I guess one could hardcode everything into the frontend implementation but it would be way nicer if a frontend could be built to adapt itself based on the system config values, as it would allow admins to make simple changes easily without needing a developer every time, just as they are used to with the existing storefront.

If this is really not supported at the moment will that change in the future?

[niklaswolf]

I think it's unortunately not that easy...
As you said, there is no Store-API endpoint to read configuration values and I doubt that there will be one in the near future. The reason is simple: if there were one, the whole configuration would be public, including sensitive values. That's the difference to the TWIG-storefront.

In the short term, you have two options in my opinion:

• add a Shopware plugin where you expose the config values you want/need and that are safe in a custom store-api endpoint
• query the configuration through the admin-api at build-time or on the server side, so that the credentials to the admin api do not get exposed publicly.

@patzick @elkmod I think this topic needs some clarification in the documentation, maybe with examples how to query through the admin api and what to watch out for when doing this.

[dianasalsa]

That makes sense and is also kinda what I expected...

The plugin-endpoint approach is something we have already used for some React-based plugins for the regular storefront and there we also stumbled on the exposed credentials issue, so we implemented a whitelist in the plugin.

Admin API via server side seems a good idea for a full Frontends project so we don't always have to update a plugin matching the current Frontends deployment when things change.

But yes, I agree that a few lines of info in the documentation would be a good idea ;)

[BrocksiNet]

Like you can read Snippets (via Middelware and new API Client) you can also read Plugin Configurations (Admin Request system-config) now. Look at the snippets example and adjust it to your needs or tell me if we need more detailed Docs about that.