GraphQL: Cannot query field "alignments" on type "Monster"

[khaosophy]

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I was looking for the monster alignment data, and found it in the REST API, but I'm not seeing it in the GraphQL (I tried alignments and alignment).

I can try to dig into this myself this week, but I wanted to post the issue first, in case I'm missing something obvious.

[fergcb]

This definitely looks like a legitimate flaw in the GraphQL schema. A PR would be most welcome!

[ecshreve]

ahh nice catch, poked around a bit and i think i have a handle on what's going on. this stems from Monster field definitions all being slightly different from the comparable Race and Class fields

for example, we have a defintion for armor class

type ArmorClass {
  base: Int!
  dex_bonus: Boolean!
  max_bonus: Int
}

and then we have the slightly different monster variety

  type: MonsterArmorClassType!
  desc: String
  value: Int!
  armor: [Armor]
  spell: Spell
  condition: Condition
}

in the case of alignments, we have a defnition that returns an Alignment object, but if we look at the Monster schema in the database or the rest api, we can see that the Monster.alignment field is only a primitive string.

i think there's a couple options

• add an enum definition for MonsterAlignment, and have the gql query for monster.monster-alignment return the simple string val OR
• update the monster schema to return an Alignment

i'm going to try and get a PR up for that first option this afternoon

[fergcb]

The second option definitely seems more appealing to me! There seems almost no point in having an Alignments collection if we don't reference it from Monster documents.

[ecshreve]

i lied a little bit by accident.

in the gql schema , we currently only return the Alignment object on root root queries, and from the IdealOption type.

in the current schema the alignment field on the Race type, a primitive string 🤔 going to think about this a little more

[ecshreve]

oh yeah i made it way more complicated than it was. we should be able to get the string exposed real easy, but if we want to return an Alignment object instead it's a bit more work

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