While I try to learn GraphQL-Tools
.I found this article.In this article,example resolvers are described as follows.
const resolvers = {
Query: {
posts: () => posts,
author: (_, { id }) => find(authors, { id })
},
Mutation: {
upvotePost: (_, { postId }) => {
const post = find(posts, { id: postId })
if (!post) {
throw new Error(`Couldn't find post with id ${postId}`)
}
post.votes += 1
return post
}
},
Author: {
posts: author => filter(posts, { authorId: author.id })
},
Post: {
author: post => find(authors, { id: post.authorId })
}
}
I understood that Query
and Mutation
andSubscription
is main function of Graphql
resolvers.
My question is what is Author
,Post
in this resolver
?
I can understand Query
andMutation
section of this resolver. but how to think about Author
and Post
?
It seems that it defined functions.
Thanks
That is Trival Resolver https://graphql.org/learn/execution/#trivial-resolvers
Until Graphql has a completely understandable return value.
Graphql goes on to the next search with the returned type.
Those functions [Author, Post] tell to Graphql how to find the object's value.
For exameple if "PostFindById" reoslver promised to graphql that will return "author" field But instead it return "Post" Graphql will excute Trival Rsolver to find value of author field with given "Post".
So it will execute this resolver with given 'post'