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Working with generic types

Creating a generic type
Creating a type that doesn't map to a DataObject
Building a custom query
Add a custom query for any type of data
The resolver discovery pattern
How you can opt out of mapping fields to resolvers by adhering to naming conventions
Adding arguments
Add arguments to your fields, queries, and mutations
Adding pagination
Add the pagination plugin to a generic query
Adding descriptions
Add descriptions to just about anything in your schema to improve your developer experience
Enums, unions, and interfaces
Add some non-object types to your schema

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Adding descriptions

One of the great features of a schema-backed API is that it is self-documenting. If you use the silverstripe/graphql-devtools module you can see the documentation by navigating to /dev/graphql/ide in your browser anc clicking on "DOCS" on the right.

Many API developers choose to maximise the benefit of this by adding descriptions to some or all of the components of their schema.

The trade-off for using descriptions is that the YAML configuration becomes a bit more verbose.

Let's add some descriptions to our types and fields.

# app/_graphql/schema.yml
types:
  Country:
    description: A record that describes one of the world's sovereign nations
    fields:
      code:
        type: String!
        description: The unique two-letter country code
      name:
        type: String!
        description: The canonical name of the country, in English

We can also add descriptions to our query arguments. We'll have to remove the inline argument definition to do that.

# app/_graphql/schema.yml
queries:
  readCountries:
    type: '[Country]'
    description: Get all the countries in the world
    args:
      limit:
        type: Int = 20
        description: The limit that is applied to the result set

Further reading

Creating a generic type
Creating a type that doesn't map to a DataObject
Building a custom query
Add a custom query for any type of data
The resolver discovery pattern
How you can opt out of mapping fields to resolvers by adhering to naming conventions
Adding arguments
Add arguments to your fields, queries, and mutations
Adding pagination
Add the pagination plugin to a generic query
Adding descriptions
Add descriptions to just about anything in your schema to improve your developer experience
Enums, unions, and interfaces
Add some non-object types to your schema