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I am using the Facebook Graph API’s data to get the user info and create my user in the GraphQL service (graphcool).

function createGraphcoolUser(facebookUser) {
    return api.request(`
      mutation {
        createUser(
          facebookUserId: "${facebookUser.id}"
          facebookEmail: "${facebookUser.email}"
          facebookName: "${facebookUser.name}"
          facebookPicture: "${facebookUser.picture}"
        ) {
          id
        }
      }`)
      .then((userMutationResult) => {
        return userMutationResult.createUser.id
      })
}

But ${facebookUser.picture} is an object with nested fields.

{
  "id": "123467890",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "name": "John Doe",
  "picture": {
    "data": {
      "url": "https://url.to.picture.jpg"
    }
  }
}

So how do I define it in the type model ?

type User @model {
  # Required system field:
  id: ID! @isUnique # read-only (managed by Graphcool)

  # Optional system fields (remove if not needed):
  createdAt: DateTime! # read-only (managed by Graphcool)
  updatedAt: DateTime! # read-only (managed by Graphcool)

  facebookUserId: String @isUnique
  facebookEmail: String
  facebookName: String
  facebookPicture: ---> HERE <---

  posts: [Post!]! @relation(name: "UserPosts")
}

2

Answers


  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER

    To answer my own question the info was in the docs (sorry about that):

    We must use Input types

    ... you can also easily pass complex objects. This is particularly valuable in the case of mutations, where you might want to pass in a whole object to be created. In the GraphQL schema language, input types look exactly the same as regular object types, but with the keyword input instead of type ...

    http://graphql.org/learn/schema/#input-types


  2. If you need the facebookPicture to be a type, I think there’s a couple ways to do it. It appears that the data object is just a wrapper, so it could help us to flatten the whole thing down.

    type User @model {
      id: ID! @isUnique
    
      facebookUserId: String! @isUnique # unique field should be required
      facebookEmail: String
      facebookName: String
    
      facebookPicture: FacebookPicture @relation(name: "UserPicture")
    
      posts: [Post!]! @relation(name: "UserPosts")
    }
    
    type FacebookPicture @model {
      id: ID! @isUnique
      user: User! @relation(name: "UserPicture")
      url: String!
    }
    

    Prior to Graphcool 1.0, it will force the relationship into being two-way, so you will have to handle having a user field in the image as well. This might become a bit simpler after 1.0 is finally rolled out.

    In order to add the image to the user, you can (should be able to) use a nested mutation. Something like:

    mutation createUserAndFacebookPicture { # this mutation should be generated by Graphcool
      createUser(
        # user stuff...
        facebookPicture: {
          url: "${facebookUser.picture.data.url}"
        }
      ) {
        id
        facebookPicture {
          id
          url
        }
      }
    }
    

    If there the facebookUser.picture.data is more complicated and not just a wrapper, then you could make a data field, and make that a JSON type.

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