In our project we use Apollo client to send queries to GraphQL. Strangely it converts the variables into object of objects.
let variables = [{myField: "myVal"}];
graphql.mutate("mutate myFunction($data:[MyInputType]){
myFunction(myArg: $data){...blabla...}
}", variables);
When I run the mutation and check request headers, I see that my variables are converted into object of objects.
{"0": {"myField": "myVal"}}
Does this method force variables to be object by default? Is it possible to send array of objects as parameter using GraphQL?
When executing a query, GraphQL expects variables
to be an object where the key is the variable name and the value is the corresponding variable value. Every variable used within a document (the entire query you send) must be declared next to the operation definition for the document. For example, if you have a variable named firstName
that was a String
:
mutation SomeOperationName ($firstName: String) {
# your mutation here
}
You can include any number of variables:
mutation SomeOperationName ($firstName: String, $lastName: String, points: Int)
Variables can also be lists:
mutation SomeOperationName ($names: [String], points: Int)
In all these cases, however, the value for variables
you pass to mutate
still needs to be an object:
{
names: ['Bob', 'Susan'],
points: 12,
}
In your example, you've only defined a single variable, data
, that you've told GraphQL is a List
of MyInputType
. You can't pass in myField
as a variable because you have not told GraphQL that variable exists. However, if myField
is a field on MyInputType
, then your variables
just needs to look like this:
{
data: [
{
myField: 'someValue'
},
{
myField: 'someOtherValue'
},
],
}