Following the Mongoose Schema provides us with an incredibly easy and smooth way to generate a GraphQL Schema. However, there are some instances where we may want to use a different GraphQL type than our underlying mongodb type. While customQueries and customQueries solves this to some extent, 'baking' in the the functionality to graffiti-mongoose seems advantageous moving forward.
An example of this is image upload. While the Mongoose Type for an image field might be a Schema.ID (an id for a gridfs file) our input has to be a string. This is just one example, I'm sure there are a bunch of other use cases too.
What I propose is to use a graffiti attribute that will be read by graffiti during the schema generation process. I figured we put every graffiti custom attribute here so as not to pollute the mongoose type object:
const MaterialSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
cover: {
type: mongoose.Schema.ObjectId,
graffiti: {
input: { type: String },
output: { type: ID },
hooks: {}
}
}
})This is going to potentially need lots of changes, but will make graffiti-mongoose very powerful. If you think this is a good approach, let me know and I'll get started on a PR 😄
Following the Mongoose Schema provides us with an incredibly easy and smooth way to generate a GraphQL Schema. However, there are some instances where we may want to use a different GraphQL type than our underlying mongodb type. While customQueries and customQueries solves this to some extent, 'baking' in the the functionality to graffiti-mongoose seems advantageous moving forward.
An example of this is image upload. While the Mongoose Type for an
imagefield might be aSchema.ID(an id for a gridfs file) our input has to be a string. This is just one example, I'm sure there are a bunch of other use cases too.What I propose is to use a graffiti attribute that will be read by graffiti during the schema generation process. I figured we put every graffiti custom attribute here so as not to pollute the mongoose type object:
This is going to potentially need lots of changes, but will make graffiti-mongoose very powerful. If you think this is a good approach, let me know and I'll get started on a PR 😄