Any way to trigger Compose via hook/function call?

[jmcapra]

Title says it all. Have been having a blast playing around with this plugin, and we are keen to contribute any way we can. Just wondering if there is a built-in method or any recommended approach to implementing this feature?

e.g., This would be useful to implement a button that kicks off a multi-step process - preferably in the background/deferred to payload tasks if possible (it seems the async generation is tied to the UI component being rendered, which can be problematic for e.g. image gen)

[ashbuilds]

Hi @jmcapra, thanks a lot for the kind words, I really appreciate it!

Yes, it's absolutely possible to trigger all AI-enabled fields via an API, since under the hood each field is just a collection of instructions (prompt + options). So technically you could hit generate endpoints directly. What you’re describing sounds very much like automated workflows - and that’s actually something already on the roadmap!

If you’d like to explore this yourself in the meantime, it should be quite doable. For example, image generation is already decoupled from the frontend since it's immediately uploaded to the media library(assignments of the id still happens on the client side). But for text generation, we're currently assigning the generated values to the collection fields right from the frontend, which does tie it to the UI render cycle.

To make automation work reliably, we’ll need to shift that logic to the backend, something I actually started working on a while ago but couldn’t wrap up due to time constraints. I’ll definitely look into it again as soon as possible. In the meantime, please feel free to try things out, and I would be happy to help along the way 🙌

[ashbuilds]

👉 #46

This is the PR that I was working on, hopefully I can start on this again :)