Why does Payload generated types have numbers as a possibility in so many relations?

pedgo12 months ago

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image?: (number | null) | Image;

thumbnail?: (number | null) | Image;

youtube_channel: {
  link: string;
  name: string;
  image?: (number | null) | Image;
};

logo?: (number | null) | Image;

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  alessiogr

  12 months ago

  100% intentional! That's because the data can be different depending on the depth.

  
  
  

  If you query your document with depth=0, then image will be a

  number

  (the id of the image).

  
  
  

  If you query it with depth=1, then image will be the populated image document (

  Image

  )

  
  
  

  And if it doesn't exist it will be

  null

  or undefined (

  ?

  )

  
  
  

  So with

  ?: (number | null) | Image

  you actually have the perfect type which covers all possibilities!

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  pedgo12 months ago

  hmmm this makes a lot of sense. Thank you.