strapi-utils refactored

In Strapi 5, the strapi-utils core package has been refactored. This page lists the additions, removals, and other updates.

This page is part of the breaking changes database and provides information about the breaking change and additional instructions to migrate from Strapi v4 to Strapi 5.

🔌 Is this breaking change affecting plugins?	Yes

🤖 Is this breaking change automatically handled by a codemod?	Yes

List of changes

Element	Description of the change
arrays utils	Added, and moved the stringIncludes method inside it (see additional notes).
dates utils objects utils async utils strings utils	Added (see additional notes).
strings.getCommonPath	Added
nameToSlug	Moved to strings.nameToSlug
nameToCollectionName	Moved to strings.nameToCollectionName
stringIncludes	Moved to arrays.includesString
stringEquals	Moved to strings.isEqual
isCamelCase	Moved to strings.isCamelCase
isKebabCase	Moved to strings.isKebabCase
toKebabCase	Moved to strings.toKebabCase
toRegressedEnumValue	Moved to strings.toRegressedEnumValue
startsWithANumber	Moved to strings.startsWithANumber
joinBy	Moved to strings.joinBy
keysDeep	Moved to objects.keysDeep
generateTimestampCode	Moved to dates.timestampCode
pipeAsync	Moved to async.pipe
mapAsync	Moved to async.map
reduceAsync	Moved to async.reduce
convertQueryParams	Replaced (see additional notes).
validate and sanitize	Updated (see additional notes).
getCommonBeginning	Removed
getConfigUrls getAbsoluteAdminUrl getAbsoluteServerUrl	Removed
forEachAsync	Removed
removeUndefined	Removed
templateConfiguration	Removed (see additional notes).

Additional Notes

• templateConfiguration: This was used when loading the old v3 configuration files in JSON to allow for templates. Plugin developers still using the function should replace its usage by a real template library if they really need to.

• arrays utils: To use these new utils:

  1. Import them in your code with import { arrays, dates, strings, objects } from '@strapi/utils';.
  2. Use them, for instance as arrays.includesString or strings.isEqual.

• convertQueryParams is replaced:

  // Strapi v4
  import { convertQueryParams } from '@strapi/utils';
  
  convertQueryParams.convertSortQueryParams(...); // now private function to simplify the api
  convertQueryParams.convertStartQueryParams(...); // now private function to simplify the api
  convertQueryParams.convertLimitQueryParams(...); // now private function to simplify the api
  convertQueryParams.convertPopulateQueryParams(...); // now private function to simplify the api
  convertQueryParams.convertFiltersQueryParams(...); // now private function to simplify the api
  convertQueryParams.convertFieldsQueryParams(...); // now private function to simplify the api
  convertQueryParams.convertPublicationStateParams(...); // now private function to simplify the api
  
  convertQueryParams.transformParamsToQuery(...); // becomes the example below
  
  // Strapi 5 
  // Those utils required the strapi app context, so we decided to expose a strapi service for it
  strapi.get('query-params').transform();

• validate and sanitize are now part of the strapi.contentAPI functions:

  // Strapi v4
  import { validate, sanitize } from '@strapi/utils';
  
  validate.contentAPI.xxx();
  sanitize.contentAPI.xxx();
  
  // Strapi 5
  // Those methods require the strapi app context
  strapi.contentAPI.sanitize.xxx();
  strapi.contentAPI.validate.xxx();