Add support for generating types for query results

[rohit-gohri]

Any idea how I could use the generated types of schema to generate types for query results?

Something akin to what https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-tooling does but to do it dynamically. I would be willing to work on this if you could point in me the right direction.

[dangcuuson]

Hi @rohit-smpx, this lib is more focused on generating types for back-end. If you're looking for generating types to be used in front-end, I'd recommend using apollo-tooling. Also I don't get what you mean by making it dynamically, could you elaborate?

Thanks

[rohit-gohri]

So, I had a use case where I was generating queries like this:

const itemId = somecondition ? 1 : 2;

const query = gql`
query{
  products(id: ${id}){
    nodes{
        name
    }
  }
}
`;

apollo-tooling only generates types for fully static queries. I was trying to get types generated for these type of queries. In the end I decided to convert everything to use variables but that ended up being a lot of work.

[dangcuuson]

I think it's not feasible, because in this case the query is only available at run-time, but this library and apollo-tooling (code-gen) generate TypeScript types, which only available at compile time. That's why both tools cannot generate types dynamically.

[rohit-gohri]

Cool. Thanks for clearing the doubts.