Open DusterTheFirst opened 4 years ago
Another solution could be to enable a way to make a type that implements Display
to be usable as a GraphQLType
@DusterTheFirst we need a concrete Rust type to be named for building up a GraphQL schema by introspecting the Rust code given to macros.
Unfortunately, having UserId
type and ToString::to_string
ident of the function, it's impossible to name the transformation result type of applying this function to UserId
in the current stable Rust. If we had sort of real typeof
in Rust, it would be possible. But we have no ability to name a type out of an ident.
However, if we force users to name the result type, it will work:
#[derive(GraphQLObject)]
struct GraphQLObj {
normal_string: String,
#[graphql(into(String) = ToString::to_string)]
custom_type: UserId,
}
When creating graphql objects using the
GraphQLObject
custom derive which have types that do not implementGraphQLType
you end up being forced to use the#[juniper::object]
proc macro and redefine methods to expose each and every field manually. It would be useful to have a#[graphql(transform = "fn_name")]
field attribute that would allow users to transform the type into another ie. u64 (snowflake) to string.example:
This improvement would probably be a better solution to #553. could be a possible duplicate of #652