Usage of DIRECTUS_PUBLIC_TOKEN for generateDirectusTypes

[joggienl]

I noticed that generateDirectusTypes is using the DIRECTUS_PUBLIC_TOKEN to get the type definition file.

As per documentation of the directus-sdk-typegen, the token must be a token with administrator permissions, the token for the public role is not suited for that.

I've seen it in astra, svelte and the nextjs cms starter frontend.

[joggienl]

I also created an issue in the directus-sdk-typegen bryantgillespie/directus-sdk-typegen#13, I would opt to say that it would be better to be able to use a public token and only get types for the collections the token has access to, but that should have to change there (hence the issue).

[bryantgillespie]

Thanks for the report here.
Did you test with a non-admin token? I can't remember if it actually errors out or not. If it does error - should definitely fix it so that it will generates for the schema that the token has access to.

[joggienl]

Hey @bryantgillespie thanks for the reply!

Yes, I have tested that! Thats actually why I ran into it, because I got an error.

This is part of the error:

Error generating Directus types: Error: HTTP error! status: 403, body: {"errors":[{"message":"You don't have permission to perform \"read\" for collection \"directus_fields\" or it does not exist.","extensions":{"reason":"You don't have permission to perform \"read\" for collection \"directus_fields\" or it does not exist.","code":"FORBIDDEN"}}]}