feat: add Relay ID translation in mutation and queries

[rbino]

Adds a new option for queries and mutations that defines which arguments or attributes will use a global Relay ID and their type. This allows automatically decoding them before hitting their action.

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• [x] Features include unit/acceptance tests

[rbino]

@zachdaniel the feature is working, but it's missing some error handling and some more niceties. Opening as draft to collect feedback on the direction/naming/etc.

[zachdaniel]

I'm wondering if there is a way for us to figure this out automatically for cases with manage_relationship?

[rbino]

I think this would be orthogonal to managed_relationships, from what I understand, the main purpose of managed_relationships is generating input types from nested relationships, so I think it's mainly used for nested resource creation (e.g. create_post_with_tags) but less so with relationships that don't create the related resource (e.g. create_post_with_author, which doesn't create the author). Also, an ID could also be passed in a non-standard argument (like a map) and handled with a manual change, which wouldn't be detectable.

The high level idea I have in mind to see if this can be automatically generated is more or less this:

• Do something similar to managed_relationship and retrieve all changes in the action which use a ManageRelationship change
• From these changes, filter the ones which map the argument to a primary key of the related resource
• Emit the translation middleware for those arguments (also taking care of the nesting, e.g. the wrapping input object)

Given we would still need the manual way to do this to provide an escape hatch for cases not covered by the autogeneration, I don't know if you prefer fixing the manual way and then working on the autogeneration in a separate PR or start directly with the autogeneration.

[zachdaniel]

Yes, great points. We need both 👍 Doesn't really matter which one we start with 😄

[zachdaniel]

As for managed relationship type generation, you should be able to tap into our existing logic for generating types for managed relationships

[rbino]

@zachdaniel ready for review, this implements the manual part as discussed above. I will then open an issue to track the implementation of the automatically derived translations.

[rbino]

@zachdaniel rebased to fix the conflicts in the cheatsheet. I've also shortened the docs in the DSL and linked to the Relay guide instead as suggested by the Spark warning.

[zachdaniel]

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