Added actor creation page.

src/actors.js

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ import { differenceInYears } from 'date-fns';
 import { unit } from 'mathjs';
 import { MerkleJson } from 'merkle-json';
 import moment from 'moment';
+import { nanoid } from 'nanoid';
 import omit from 'object.omit';
 import convert from 'convert';
 import unprint from 'unprint';
@@ -521,6 +522,27 @@ export async function fetchActors(filters, rawOptions, reqUser) {
 	};
 }
 
+function curateActorEntry(actor, context) {
+	return {
+		name: actor.name,
+		slug: slugify(actor.name),
+		entry_id: nanoid(), // allows for manual creation of multiple actors with the same name
+		gender: actor.gender,
+		comment: context?.comment,
+	};
+}
+
+export async function createActor(newActor, context, reqUser) {
+	if (!reqUser || reqUser.role === 'user') {
+		throw new HttpError('You are not permitted to create actors', 403);
+	}
+
+	const curatedActorEntry = curateActorEntry(newActor, context);
+	const [actorEntry] = await knex('actors').insert(curatedActorEntry).returning('*');
+
+	return curateActor(actorEntry);
+}
+
 export async function fetchActorRevisions(revisionId, filters = {}, reqUser) {
 	const limit = filters.limit || 50;
 	const page = filters.page || 1;

src/web/actors.js

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import Router from 'express-promise-router';
+import omit from 'object.omit';
 
 import {
 	fetchActors,
 	fetchActorsById,
+	createActor,
 	fetchActorRevisions,
 	createActorRevision,
 	reviewActorRevision,
@@ -169,6 +171,12 @@ export async function fetchActorsByIdGraphql(query, _req, _info) {
 	return curatedActors[0];
 }
 
+export async function createActorApi(req, res) {
+	const actor = await createActor(req.body.actor, omit(req.body, ['actor']), req.user);
+
+	res.send({ actor });
+}
+
 async function fetchActorRevisionsApi(req, res) {
 	const revisions = await fetchActorRevisions(Number(req.params.revisionId) || null, req.query, req.user);
 
@@ -190,6 +198,7 @@ async function reviewActorRevisionApi(req, res) {
 export const actorsRouter = Router();
 
 actorsRouter.get('/api/actors', fetchActorsApi);
+actorsRouter.post('/api/actors', createActorApi);
 
 actorsRouter.get('/api/revisions/actors', fetchActorRevisionsApi);
 actorsRouter.get('/api/revisions/actors/:revisionId', fetchActorRevisionsApi);