Using types as sub objects

[danielsvane]

This question might be really dumb, I'm not the best at neither GraphQL nor Neo4j.

I have a schema created with makeAugmentedSchema, where there's a user that has an address field:

type Address {
  country: String
  city: String
}

type User {
  name: String
  address: Address
}

Now it tries to generate the address type as a node, which makes sense. Is it possible to just have a type as a nested object, that can be created directly in a CreateUser mutation?

[appinteractive]

Would love to be able to do that

[johnymontana]

We currently map GraphQL types directly to node labels in the database, which makes it easy to reason about the data model. In your case, this results in having to execute 3 mutations to create an Address, User, and connect them: CreateAddress, CreateUser, and AddAddressUser.

Combining all of this into a single mutation operation - known as a nested mutation. is on our radar, but not something that is currently supported.

In the mean time, you could add this functionality manually to your schema by creating a mutation with a @cypher schema directive and defining the logic for updating the database with a Cypher query.

[michaeldgraham]

https://github.com/neo4j-graphql/neo4j-graphql-js/issues/608