Given a GraphQL schema and resolvers for Apollo Server, and a GraphQL query, is there a way to create a collection of all requested fields (in an Object or a Map) in the resolver function?
For a simple query, it's easy to recreate this collection from the info
argument of the resolver.
Given a schema:
type User {
id: Int!
username: String!
roles: [Role!]!
}
type Role {
id: Int!
name: String!
description: String
}
schema {
query: Query
}
type Query {
getUser(id: Int!): User!
}
and a resolver:
Query: {
getUser: (root, args, context, info) => {
console.log(infoParser(info))
return db.Users.findOne({ id: args.id })
}
}
with a simple recursive infoParser
function like this:
function infoParser (info) {
const fields = {}
info.fieldNodes.forEach(node => {
parseSelectionSet(node.selectionSet.selections, fields)
})
return fields
}
function parseSelectionSet (selections, fields) {
selections.forEach(selection => {
const name = selection.name.value
fields[name] = selection.selectionSet
? parseSelectionSet(selection.selectionSet.selections, {})
: true
})
return fields
}
The following query results in this log:
{
getUser(id: 1) {
id
username
roles {
name
}
}
}
=> { id: true, username: true, roles: { name: true } }
Things get pretty ugly pretty soon, for example when you use fragments in the query:
fragment UserInfo on User {
id
username
roles {
name
}
}
{
getUser(id: 1) {
...UserInfo
username
roles {
description
}
}
}
GraphQL engine correctly ignores duplicates, (deeply) merges etc. queried fields on execution, but it is not reflected in the info
argument. When you add unions and inline fragments it just gets hairier.
Is there a way to construct a collection of all fields requested in a query, taking in account advanced querying capabilities of GraphQL?
Info about the info
argument can be found on the Apollo docs site and in the graphql-js Github repo.
I know it has been a while but in case anyone ends up here, there is an npm package called graphql-list-fields by Jake Pusareti that does this. It handles fragments and skip and include directives. you can also check the code here.