Extending type for GrahQL
Hello all,
I read about the "Adding your own Queries and Mutations" but I didn't find any explanation about extending an existing type.
For example, I have collection called product where I have shopifyId field.
I would like to be able to update the product query to able to have a node "shopify"
{
products {
shopifyId
shopify {
price
}
}
}
Do you have way?
I was thinking to override the schema, I found the code but we should provide a way to merge the schema using for example @graphql-tools/merge
Hey @b-barry — you should not directly modify the auto-generated GraphQL types, but what you're doing should be possible by adding a field to your config itself. You can then set
admin.disabled: trueon the field to have it hide from the admin UI entirely. And then you could fill the field's value dynamically with hooks / similar, therefore treating it as a "virtual field". We have a demo of this coming out shortly, so keep an eye out!3 repliesThanks for the quick response. About the hidden field, do you plan to save it the database ?
I prefer not to be sure to have the latest dataYou don’t need to save the field to the database, and you can populate it dynamically with hooks. That’s actually what I was intending and is a pattern that we use ourselves quite a bit. It works well and accomplishes exactly what you’re looking to do 👍
Super ! I am looking forward for your example.
Thanks again for the response
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