Restore an author’s previous publish

use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Facades\Attract;

$author = Attract::authors()->revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious(id: 'clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6');

{
  "title": "Example title",
  "bio": "Example bio",
  "_user": [
    {}
  ],
  "showOnSite": true,
  "showPhoto": true,
  "slug": "example-slug",
  "visibility": "public",
  "scheduledPublish": "Example scheduled publish",
  "scheduledUnpublish": "Example scheduled unpublish",
  "archived": false,
  "_id": "clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "Example type",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-24T09:30:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-24T09:30:00.000Z",
  "aposShareKey": "k3v9x2m7q1z8w4p6"
}

use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Facades\Attract;

$author = Attract::authors()->revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious(id: 'clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6');

{
  "title": "Example title",
  "bio": "Example bio",
  "_user": [
    {}
  ],
  "showOnSite": true,
  "showPhoto": true,
  "slug": "example-slug",
  "visibility": "public",
  "scheduledPublish": "Example scheduled publish",
  "scheduledUnpublish": "Example scheduled unpublish",
  "archived": false,
  "_id": "clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "Example type",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-24T09:30:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-24T09:30:00.000Z",
  "aposShareKey": "k3v9x2m7q1z8w4p6"
}

In your app

A controller answers a route on your app: it calls revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious() and returns the answer.

Add the controller

app/Http/Controllers/RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousController.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace App\Http\Controllers;

use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Data\Author;
use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Facades\Attract;

final class RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousController
{
    public function __invoke(string $id): Author
    {
        return Attract::authors()->revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious(id: $id);
    }
}

Add the route

routes/web.php

use App\Http\Controllers\RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousController;
use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Route;

Route::post('/author/{id}/revert-published-to-previous', RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousController::class)->middleware('auth');

It acts with your key’s access, so auth lets only your signed-in users reach it.

Call it

Your own page’s form or script sends POST /author/clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6/revert-published-to-previous (a form adds @csrf, as every web route checks it), and gets back its answer as JSON. Test it, below, calls it.

To keep the call in an Action instead, this writes app/Actions/Attract/RevertAuthorPublishedToPrevious.php (an invokable Action that calls revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious()) and its test under tests/Feature/Actions/Attract/ (Pest when your app has it):

Terminal

php artisan make:attract-action authors.revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious

Call it from the terminal

Terminal

php artisan attract:call authors.revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious id=clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6

It calls revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious() on your default site and prints its answer as JSON. It writes, so it asks first: add --force to skip the question in a script. See Call any method from the terminal for every argument type. Answers it; 400 invalid when there is none.

Find the id

id is the document’s _id, from a list. Ask the list for only the fields you need: each row is a document’s id and those fields.

Laravel

use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Facades\Attract;

$row = Attract::authors()->listAuthorsPick(fields: ['title', 'slug'])->firstWhere('slug', 'getting-started'); // ['id' => …, 'title' => …, 'slug' => …], or null

Terminal

php artisan attract:call authors.listAuthorsPick fields=title,slug

Pass $row['id'] as id. Drafts: list with aposMode: 'draft' to get the draft’s id (Find an id).

Required parameters

Named arguments, e.g. revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious(id: …); leave out the optional ones.

string

required

Required. The document’s _id: a full id names its own locale and mode (the draft’s …:en:draft, the published one’s …:en:published; no aposMode needed), a bare aposDocId takes the request’s (aposLocale, aposMode).

Returns

An Author (Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Data\Author). Author content type. Read its properties ($author->title): each says whether the site always sends it. The example answer is the site’s wire JSON: some keys differ from the property names (_id → id, _user → user).

string

Always sent. Its title: the name it goes by in every list, and the heading of its page where it has one.

string

Always sent. The document’s id. On a type with drafts it ends in its locale and mode (…:en:published, …:en:draft): the part before the first colon is its aposDocId, shared by both copies. The {_id} the type’s routes take.

string

Always sent. The document type’s name: always this type’s.

?string

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. Optional one or two sentences about this author.

Collection<int, array<string, mixed>>|null

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. The FetchskiCMS login account this author profile belongs to (used to source the photo, and by SSO to sync it). Leave empty for guest contributors. The related @apostrophecms/user documents, in order (empty when none). To set it, send a list of { "_id": "…" }, one per document (one at most); a document the site can’t find is left out. At most 1 items.

?bool

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. Master switch for this author’s public byline. Turn off to hide the name AND photo on every post that credits this author.

?bool

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. When on, the linked login account’s profile photo appears next to this author. Has no effect without a login account, or when “Show author on the site” is off.

?string

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. The URL name: lowercase words joined by hyphens (letters outside a–z, even emoji, are kept).

Enums\Visibility|string|null

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. Select whether this content is public or private. One of public, loginRequired; a newer site may send others, so keep a fallback.

?string

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.

?string

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. An ISO 8601 date and time, e.g. 2026-10-21T14:30:00.000Z.

?bool

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. In the archive: kept, but out of every list and off the site until it is restored. false (or null) for a live document.

?CarbonImmutable

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. When it was created (ISO 8601). Format: an ISO 8601 date and time.

?CarbonImmutable

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. When it last changed (ISO 8601). Format: an ISO 8601 date and time.

Sometimes sent: null when the site leaves it out. The draft’s preview share key, while its share link is on: the link is the draft’s _url with aposShareKey and aposShareId (the draft’s _id) in its query. Absent otherwise, and on published documents.

Errors

Nothing to catch: the SDK retries what is safe, and Laravel logs and renders the rest (see Errors and testing).

400

The site refused what was sent: errors() lists each field’s problem, siteMessage() the first.Retried first: No. Read: errors() (field → messages), siteMessage().

401

The API key is missing or refused (malformed, revoked, expired), or a signature its signing mode needs is missing or stale.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage(), errorName(), data().

403

The key may not do this: a scope it lacks, or an address outside its allowlist. siteMessage() names it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage(), errorName(), data().

404

Nothing matches, or the caller may not see it.Retried first: No. Read: siteMessage(), errorName(), data().

500

The site failed. Its logs say why.Retried first: No: a write may have landed. Read: siteMessage(), errorName(), data().

no answer

No answer: DNS, a refused connection, TLS, or the timeout (15 s per attempt by default).Retried first: Only when nothing reached the site (neverConnected()); never after a timeout, when it may have landed. Read: reason(), neverConnected().

not sent

The client refused to send it (e.g. a path segment of ..); the site never saw it.Retried first: No. Read: reason() (what to change).

any other

Any other status, or a success whose JSON doesn’t match this SDK version’s types (update the SDK).Retried first: No. Read: reason(), status().

setup

Attract::site('acme') named a slug that isn’t under sites in config/fetchski-attract.php.Retried first: No: nothing was sent. Read: getMessage(), $e->slug.

setup

The site’s config entry is wrong: no url, a malformed api_key, a key filed under another slug, or no default site.Retried first: No: nothing was sent. Read: getMessage() (what to fix).

Behavior

Access: an API key with content:authors:publish (or a master above it: content:authors:all, content:all, admin:all). A signed-in person may call it as far as their own permissions allow; anyone else gets 403.
Rate limit: the key’s own writes-per-minute limit, set when the key is created (default 120); over it, 429 with Retry-After. The client waits and retries for you; you see RateLimited only if that runs out.
Retries: a write is sent again only after a 429 (refused before it acted) or when it never reached the site. After a timeout or a 5xx it may have landed: check before you send it again.
Timeout: 15 s per attempt by default; raise timeout in config/fetchski-attract.php for longer.

Test it

It calls the route above with the SDK faked: the fake answers every call with a valid example, so nothing leaves your machine and no config or key is needed. Save it as tests/Feature/RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousTest.php, then run your tests:

tests/Feature/RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousTest.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Tests\Feature;

use App\Models\User;
use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Facades\Attract;
use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase;
use Tests\TestCase;

final class RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousTest extends TestCase
{
    use RefreshDatabase;

    public function test_revert_author_published_to_previous(): void
    {
        Attract::fake();

        $this->actingAs(User::factory()->create())
            ->postJson('/author/clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6/revert-published-to-previous')
            ->assertOk();

        Attract::assertCalled('authors.revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious', fn (array $args): bool => $args['id'] === 'clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6');
    }
}

Terminal

php artisan test

Answer with your own values: fake authors.revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious with Author::factory()->make([...]), the fields you give over a valid example.

tests/Feature/RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousAnswerTest.php

<?php

declare(strict_types=1);

namespace Tests\Feature;

use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Data\Author;
use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Facades\Attract;
use Tests\TestCase;

final class RevertAuthorPublishedToPreviousAnswerTest extends TestCase
{
    public function test_revert_author_published_to_previous_answers_your_values(): void
    {
        Attract::fake([
            'authors.revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious' => Author::factory()->make(['title' => 'Your value']),
        ]);

        $author = Attract::authors()->revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious(id: 'clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6');

        $this->assertSame('Your value', $author->title);
    }
}

List an author’s locales

Attract::authors()->getAuthorLocales()

List authors

Attract::authors()->listAuthors()

Create an author

Attract::authors()->createAuthor()

Get an author

Attract::authors()->getAuthor()

Replace an author

Attract::authors()->replaceAuthor()

Delete an author

Attract::authors()->deleteAuthor()

POST /author/{_id}/revert-published-to-previous

The endpoint this calls, in the API reference: the HTTP request and answer, and every rule the site checks.

use Fetchski\AttractCmsLaravel\Facades\Attract;

$author = Attract::authors()->revertAuthorPublishedToPrevious(id: 'clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6');

{
  "title": "Example title",
  "bio": "Example bio",
  "_user": [
    {}
  ],
  "showOnSite": true,
  "showPhoto": true,
  "slug": "example-slug",
  "visibility": "public",
  "scheduledPublish": "Example scheduled publish",
  "scheduledUnpublish": "Example scheduled unpublish",
  "archived": false,
  "_id": "clx8m2k4p0000a1b2c3d4e5f6",
  "type": "Example type",
  "createdAt": "2026-10-24T09:30:00.000Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-24T09:30:00.000Z",
  "aposShareKey": "k3v9x2m7q1z8w4p6"
}

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Restore an author’s previous publish

In your app

Call it from the terminal

Find the id

Behavior

Test it

List an author’s locales

List authors

Create an author

Get an author

Replace an author

Delete an author

POST /author/{_id}/revert-published-to-previous

In your app

Call it from the terminal

Find the id

Behavior

Test it

Related

List an author’s locales

List authors

Create an author

Get an author

Replace an author

Delete an author

POST /author/{_id}/revert-published-to-previous