I'm looking a the documentation for Laravel Lighthouse and I am seeing two types of mutations.
A mutation that includes the string input: (found here)
mutation {
createPost(input: { # <-- the "input:" I'm talking about
title: "My new Post"
author: {
connect: 123
}
}){
id
author {
name
}
}
}
And another mutation without the input: (found here)
mutation CreateTaskWithNotes {
createTask( # <-- no "input:" here
id: 45
name: "Do something"
notes: [
{
content: "Foo bar",
link: "http://foo.bar"
},
{
content: "Awesome note"
}
]
) {
id
}
}
My question is: How do I get the mutations without input: to work?
I try to copy (an modify) the examples from the documentation. But if I write a mutation like this:
type Mutation {
createTask(input: CreateTaskInput! #spread): Task! #create
}
When I try to omit input:, graphql-playground complains: "Field createTask argument input of type CreateTaskInput is required but not provided"
Now I try to change the schema to this:
type Mutation {
createTask(CreateTaskInput! #spread): Task! #create
}
But then the server gives a ParseException.
I do prefer the syntax without input: because that is a lot less repetitive.
Can anybody help?
If you want to write a mutation without the input, also ommit the #spread directive. So:
type Mutation {
createTask(
id: ID
name: String
): Task! #create
}
But I think it's a "best practices" to have that inside an input. Of course you can do wethever you want to do.
Try this
type Mutation {
createTask: Task! #create
}
https://newbedev.com/index.php/graphql-mutations-without-arguments
Related
I am trying to trigger a mutation in the aws console. I have linked my resolver function to a None type data source.
However, when I define my mutation with an input type as a parameter, the error " Error Cannot return null for non-nullable type: 'String' within parent MyModelType' (/createMyModelType/id)." occurs. Everything is fine though if I replace the input type with key word arguments.
I am certain it has to do with my resolver mapping template.
Just if you're wondering why I am using a None type, I want to be able to trigger a subscription without making real database changes or mutations.
I am not sure how to make it work with input types. Here is my code for the template:
{
"version": "2017-02-28",
"payload": $util.toJson($context.args)
}
My Schema:
input CreateMyModelType5Input {
title: String
}
type Mutation {
createMyModelType5(input: CreateMyModelType5Input!): MyModelType5
}
type MyModelType5 {
id: ID!
title: String
}
type Subscription {
onCreateMyModelType5(id: ID, title: String): MyModelType5
#aws_subscribe(mutations: ["createMyModelType5"])
}
Query I am trying to run:
mutation createMyModelType($createmymodeltypeinput: CreateMyModelTypeInput!) {
createMyModelType(input: $createmymodeltypeinput) {
id
title
}
}
Query Variables for the mutation query
{
"createmymodeltype5input": {
"title": "Hello, world!"
}
}
So I have been working on passing my arguments in the graphql mutation and using the input type seemed the only straight forward way around.
However, I have been able to do it with this way:
mutation = """mutation CreateMyModelType($id: String!, $title: String!){
createMyModelType(id: $id, title: $title){
id
title
}
}
"""
input_params = {
"id": "34",
"title": "2009-04-12"
}
response = app_sync.createMyModelType(mutation, input_params)
this can be a good guide
I want to bulk update list of entries with graphQL mutation in faunaDB.
The input data is list of coronavirus cases from external source. It will be updated frequently. The mutation should update existing entries if the entry name is present in collectio and create new ones if not present.
Current GRAPHQL MUTATION
mutation UpdateList($data: ListInput!) {
updateList(id: "260351229231628818", data: $data) {
title
cities {
data {
name
infected
}
}
}
}
GRAPHQL VARIABLES
{
"data": {
"title": "COVID-19",
"cities": {
"create": [
{
"id": 22,
"name": "Warsaw",
"location": {
"create": {
"lat": 52.229832,
"lng": 21.011689
}
},
"deaths": 0,
"cured": 0,
"infected": 37,
"type": "ACTIVE",
"created_timestamp": 1583671445,
"last_modified_timestamp": 1584389018
}
]
}
}
}
SCHEMA
type cityEntry {
id: Int!
name: String!
deaths: Int!
cured: Int!
infected: Int!
type: String!
created_timestamp: Int!
last_modified_timestamp: Int!
location: LatLng!
list: List
}
type LatLng {
lat: Float!
lng: Float!
}
type List {
title: String!
cities: [cityEntry] #relation
}
type Query {
items: [cityEntry!]
allCities: [cityEntry!]
cityEntriesByDeathFlag(deaths: Int!): [cityEntry!]
cityEntriesByCuredFlag(cured: Int!): [cityEntry!]
allLists: [List!]
}
Everytime the mutation runs it creates new duplicates.
What is the best way to update the list within single mutation?
my apologies for the delay, I wasn't sure exactly what the missing information was hence why I commented first :).
The Schema
An example of a part of a schema that has arguments:
type Mutation {
register(email: String!, password: String!): Account! #resolver
login(email: String!, password: String!): String! #resolver
}
When such a schema is imported in FaunaDB there will be placeholder functions provided.
The UDF parameters
As you can see all the function does is Abort with the message that the function still has to be implemented. The implementation starts with a Lambda that takes arguments and those arguments have to match what you defined in the resolver.
Query(Lambda(['email', 'password'],
... function body ...
))
Using the arguments is done with Var, that means Var('email') or Var('password') in this case. For example, in my specific case we would use the email that was passed in to get an account by email and use the password to pass on to the Login function which will return a secret (the reason I do the select here is that the return value for a GraphQL resolver has to be a valid GraphQL result (e.g. plain JSON
Query(Lambda(['email', 'password'],
Select(
['secret'],
Login(Match(Index('accountsByEmail'), Var('email')), {
password: Var('password')
})
)
))
Calling the UDF resolver via GraphQL
Finally, how to pass parameters when calling it? That should be clear from the GraphQL playground as it will provide you with the docs and autocompletion. For example, this is what the auto-generated GraphQL docs tell me after my schema import:
Which means we can call it as follows:
mutation CallLogin {
login (
email: "<some email>"
password: "<some pword>"
)
}
Bulk updates
For bulk updates, you can also pass a list of values to the User Defined Function (UDF). Let's say we would want to group a number of accounts together in a specific team via the UI and therefore want to update multiple accounts at the same time.
The mutation in our Schema could look as follows (ID's in GraphQL are similar to Strings)
type Mutation { updateAccounts(accountRefs: [ID]): [ID]! #resolver }
We could then call the mutation by providing in the id's that we receive from FaunaDB (the string, not the Ref in case you are mixing FQL and GraphQL, if you only use GraphQL, don't worry about it).
mutation {
updateAccounts(accountRefs: ["265317328423485952", "265317336075993600"] )
}
Just like before, we will have to fill in the User Defined Function that was generated by FaunaDB. A skeleton function that just takes in the array and returns it would look like:
Query(Lambda(['arr'],
Var('arr')
))
Some people might have seen an easier syntax and would be tempted to use this:
Query(Lambda(arr => arr))
However, this currently does not work with GraphQL when passing in arrays, it's a known issue that will be fixed.
The next step is to actually loop over the array. FQL is not declarative and draws inspiration from functional languages which means you would do that just by using a 'map' or a 'foreach'
Query(Lambda(["accountArray"],
Map(Var("accountArray"),
Lambda("account", Var("account")))
))
We now loop over the list but don't do anything with it yet since we just return the account in the map's body. We will now update the account and just set a value 'teamName' on there. For that we need the Update function which takes a FaunaDB Reference. GraphQL sends us strings and not references so we need to transform these ID strings to a reference with Ref as follows:
Ref(Collection('Account'), Var("account"))
If we put it all together we can add an extra attribute to a list of accounts ids as follows:
Query(Lambda(["accountArray"],
Map(Var("accountArray"),
Lambda("account",
Do(
Update(
Ref(Collection('Account'), Var("account")),
{ data: { teamName: "Awesome live-coders" } }
),
Var("account")
)
)
)
))
At the end of the Map, we just return the ID of the account again with Var("account") in order to return something that is just plain JSON, else we would be returning FaunaDB Refs which are more than just JSON and will not be accepted by the GraphQL call.
Passing in more complex types.
Sometimes you want to pass in more complex types. Let's say we have a simple todo schema.
type Todo {
title: String!
completed: Boolean!
}
And we want to set the completed value of a list of todos with specific titles to true. We can see in the extended schema generated by FaunaDB that there is a TodoInput.
If you see that extended schema you might think, "Hey that's exactly what I need!" but you can't access it when you write your mutations since you do not have that part of the schema at creation time and therefore can't just write:
type Mutation { updateTodos(todos: [TodoInput]): Boolean! #resolver }
As it will return the following error.
However, we can just add it to the schema ourselves. Fauna will just accept that you already wrote it and not override it (make sure that you keep the required fields, else your generated 'createTodo' mutation won't work anymore).
type Todo {
title: String!
completed: Boolean!
}
input TodoInput {
title: String!
completed: Boolean!
}
type Mutation { updateTodos(todos: [TodoInput]): Boolean! #resolver }
Which means that I can now write:
mutation {
updateTodos(todos: [{title: "test", completed: true}])
}
and dive into the FQL function to do things with this input.
Or if you want to include the ID along with data you can define a new type.
input TodoUpdateInput {
id: ID!
title: String!
completed: Boolean!
}
type Mutation { updateTodos(todos: [TodoUpdateInput]): Boolean! #resolver }
Once you get the hang of it and want to learn more about FQL (that's a whole different topic) we are currently writing a series of articles along with code for which the first one appeared here: https://css-tricks.com/rethinking-twitter-as-a-serverless-app/ which is probably a good gentle introduction.
I am trying to execute a mutation like so
mutation creating {
createTeam(
payload: {
name: "Team von abc"
tacts:["94b4cbc2-b996-482f-b712-967bdb646e73"]
}
) {
id
name
}
}
This results in :
"message": "Cannot perform update query because update values are not
defined. Call \"qb.set(...)\" method to specify updated values.",
My graphql is defined like this:
input CreateTeamPayload {
name: String
tacts:[ID!]
}
type Team {
id: ID!
name: String
tacts: [Tact]!
}
type Query {
fetchTeams: [Team]!
fetchTeamById(id: ID!): Team
}
type Mutation {
createTeam(payload: CreateTeamPayload): Team!
}
My Team requires an ID from a "tact" so I provide him with an ID from a "tact" I created before. Is this approach wrong? How can I mutate types that reference other types? is there some documentation that actually does this?
I've read everything, understood no solution and concrete explanation (even here: Apollo / GraphQl - Type must be Input type)
I want to create an object System that contains Suns. So I do:
type System {
_id: ID
name: String! #unique
diameter: Int
suns: [Sun]
}
type Sun {
_id: ID
name: String
diameter: Int
}
type Mutation {
createSystem(name: String!, diameter: Int, suns: [Sun]): System!
}
And I write in playground:
mutation {
createSystem(name:"new system", suns: [{ name: "John" }]) {
name
suns
}
}
But I got a terminal error: "Error: The type of Mutation.createSystem(suns:) must be Input Type but got: [Sun]."
I understand that Sun isn't received as an object. How to declare it as an object?
Thank you very much for your answers
The GraphQL spec. does not allow using type (i.e. output type) as the input argument.It only allows the input arguments to be enum , Scalar and Input . That means you have to create a SunInput
input SunInput {
_id: ID
name: String
diameter: Int
}
You need to make a custom "Type" for sun with its own resolver.
suns: { type: new GraphQLList(SunType) } // just an example
mutation {
createSystem(name:"new system", suns-names: "John") {
name
}
}
It will have resolver that writes a new system to the database called new system that adds a sun of "SunType" to the a database collection with the name of "Sun" for example.
I want to do 2 creations in my GraphQL query. (I know my query structure is not correct, but it's to illustrate my question)
mutation {
affiliateCreate(company: "test mutation") {
$id: id,
affiliateUserCreate(affiliate_id: $id, name: "test name") {
id,
name
},
company
}
}
I want my first id result to be in variable who i pass to the second creation call? I'm very new to GraphQL and i was wondering if it's possible.
Is there any other way possible to do such thing? Or i must do 2 mutation call? The first with affiliateCreate and in it's fallback the second one?
Thank you
What you want to do is not supported by GraphQL. In the Graphcool APIs we approach this kind of situation with what we call nested mutations. I've also heard it being referred to as complex mutations.
A nested create mutation is characterized by a nested input object argument. If you add an input object author to the affiliateCreate mutation, you could use it like that:
mutation createAffiliateAndUser {
affiliateCreate(
company: "test company"
author: {
name: "test user"
}
) {
id
}
}
This would create an affiliate, a user and then link the two together. Similarily, if you add an input object affiliates to the userCreate mutation, it could look like this:
mutation createUserAndAffiliates {
userCreate(
name: "test user"
affiliates: [{
company: "first company"
}, {
company: "second company"
}]
) {
id
}
}