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Hook in mutations
Goal
- developers can implement business logic before/after data creation, or update the payload.
Use case
Send email after creation
type User @afterCreate(name: "mailgunSend") {
# fields
}
What we need
We need a mechanism to let developers create customized hook and pass to GQLify.
Is this intended to let developers use fields with computed values?
A trivial example:
afterQuery
function userComputeFullname(user) {
return user.firstname + user.lastname;
}
type User {
firstname: String
lastname: String
fullname: String @afterQuery(name: "userComputeFullname")
}
beforeCreate
function userComputeFullname(parent, args, context, info) {
return args.data.firstname + args.data.surname;
}
type User {
firstname: String
lastname: String
fullname: String @beforeCreate(resolverName: "userComputeFullname")
}
or would this need some other mechanism to support custom resolvers?