Remove url prefixing on frontend

[pavish]

Description

Currently, the frontend appends a url prefix /api/v0 in the api util. This was implemented earlier for two reasons:

• Inorder to easily update the api version for future releases, considering the client updates it all with each release.
• Inorder to avoid explicitly adding this to everywhere we need to make a request.

However, with the changes done for #1041, both these reasons are now void:

• We now have two API namespaces, each maintaining their own versions.
• We may have to work with multiple API versions of the same namespace on the client in the future.

We need to remove the common method appendUrlPrefix within /mathesar_ui/src/utils/api.ts and explicitly mention the prefix in each place where a request is made.

[sanjeevbhusal]

Hey, is anyone assigned to it?

[kgodey]

@sanjeevbhusal Not yet, do you want to work on it?

[nimishbongale]

Hello @kgodey, can I work on this issue?

And just a side question, do we want this prefix URL to be configurable?

[kgodey]

Sure, go ahead @nimishbongale. I'll defer to @pavish on whether it should be configurable.

[pavish]

@nimishbongale

do we want this prefix URL to be configurable

No, we do not need it to be configurable at the moment.

[pavish]

A bit more information on this issue:

Whenever we make a request from the frontend (In places where we call methods like postAPI, getAPI etc.,), the appendUrlPrefix method checks if the full path is specified, if yes, it does not append any prefix, otherwise it appends the db prefix by default.

As mentioned in the issue description above, this is no longer desired since we now deal with multiple namespaces and possibly the need to use multiple versions of the same namespace.

We need to specify the full url everywhere requests are made.
eg., In stores/schemas.ts,

const response = await postAPI<SchemaResponse>('/schemas/', {
    name: schemaName,
    database,
})

will change to:

const response = await postAPI<SchemaResponse>('/api/db/v0/schemas/', {
    name: schemaName,
    database,
})

[nimishbongale]

A bit more information on this issue:

Whenever we make a request from the frontend (In places where we call methods like postAPI, getAPI etc.,), the appendUrlPrefix method checks if the full path is specified, if yes, it does not append any prefix, otherwise it appends the db prefix by default.

As mentioned in the issue description above, this is no longer desired since we now deal with multiple namespaces and possibly the need to use multiple versions of the same namespace.

We need to specify the full url everywhere requests are made. eg., In stores/schemas.ts,

const response = await postAPI<SchemaResponse>('/schemas/', {
    name: schemaName,
    database,
})

will change to:

const response = await postAPI<SchemaResponse>('/api/db/v0/schemas/', {
    name: schemaName,
    database,
})

I think I have a clearer understanding now, will make the necessary changes! Thanks @pavish!