Extending type for GrahQL

b-barry

last month

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{
  products {
    shopifyId
    shopify {
      price
    }
  }
}

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last month

  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: true on 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!

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  b-barry

  last month

  Thanks 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 data

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  jmikrut

  Payload Team

  last month

  You 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 👍

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  b-barry

  last month

  Super ! I am looking forward for your example.

  Thanks again for the response