React Admin: Can I use another field for <ReferenceInput>, other than "id"?

Question

Is there any way to use a different reference field (other than id) for a ReferenceInput?

For example:
I have a languages resource, which I want to populate using a language_code field.
Note, I don't want to use the id field of languages, I want to use the code field.

I have managed to get it to work by using the following:

<ReferenceInput 
  label="Language code" 
  source="language_code" 
  reference="languages"
>
  <SelectInput optionText="name" optionValue="code" />
</ReferenceInput>

The only problem with this is that:

After selecting a language from the select input, the ReferenceInput tries to fetch the resource using the code field rather than the id field, which returns a 404 error.

Answer 1

The value stored as the reference to the languages in the resource must be its identifier. Indeed, if you add a ReferenceField in the show view of your resource, how can it fetch the language without its id ?

You have two options here:

• make your API support the languages/en route
• store the language_id in addition to the language_code in your resource and create a custom ReferenceInput which will return both values after selection