Using Utility functions
Utility functions in the Shopware 6 Administration are registered to the Shopware object and are therefore accessible everywhere in the Administration. They provide many useful shortcuts for common tasks, see all of them here in our reference section.
Prerequisites
All you need for this guide is a running Shopware 6 instance, the files and preferably a registered module. Of course you'll have to understand JavaScript. However, that's a prerequisite for Shopware as a whole and will not be taught as part of this documentation.
Accessing the Utility functions
As noted in the introduction utils in the Shopware 6 Administration are bound to the Shopware global object. Learn more about that here.
In this very short example we'll show you how to use a function of utility functions, in this case the capitalizeString function. The capitalizeString function in turn calls the lodash capitalize function wich as the name implies capitalizes strings.
// <plugin-root>/src/Resources/app/administration/app/src/component/swag-basic-example/index.js
const { Component, Utils } = Shopware;
Component.register('swag-basic-example', {
data: function () {
return {
string: 'hello',
capitalizedString: undefined
}
},
created: function () {
this.capitalize()
},
methods: {
capitalize() {
this.capitalizedString = Utils.string.capitalizeString(this.string);
}
}
});An overview of all the functions
In the example before we just used the deepCopy function, but there more functions than reasonable to display in this guide.
If want to look up at all available utility functions, take a look at the previously mentioned reference page
