How to enrich a response using GraphQL, Vapor and Graphiti

[cameroncooke]

I'm building a GraphQL server application in Swift using GraphQL-Kit, Graphiti, Vapor, and Fluent with an SQL database.

Below is a basic example to attempt to illustrate my problem. I have a User model that maps to a users table, and a Purchase model that maps to a purchases table.

I have a resolver that exposes a function called getUsers. For brevity I've not included the schema or setup code, for this example assume that the schema replicates roughly the same structure and links to the resolver.

What I would like to do is enrich the response that getUsers function returns. I have data that comes from another source that I would like to add to the Purchase response, my idea was to just create a normal property on the Purchase model called notes and then in the resolver just use map to access the instance of each purchase model and assign the values into the notes field, I assumed this would work as the models are classes.

final class User: Model, Codable {
    static let schema = "users"

    @ID(key: .id)
    var id: UUID?

    @Children(for: \.$user)
    var purchases: [Purchase]

    init() {}

    init(id: UUID? = nil) {
        self.id = id
    }
}

final class Purchase: Model, Codable {
    static let schema = "purchases"

    @ID(key: .id)
    var id: UUID?

    @Field(key: "name")
    var name: String

    @Field(key: "price")
    var price: Double

    @Parent(key: "user_id")
    var user: User

    var notes: String?

    init() {}

    init(id: UUID? = nil, name: String, price: Double, userId: UUID, notes: String?) {
        self.id = id
        self.name = name
        self.price = price
        self.$user.id = userId
        self.notes = notes
    }
}

func getUser(
    request: Request,
    arguments: GetUserArguments
) throws -> EventLoopFuture<User> {
    User.find(arguments.id, on: request.db)
        .unwrap(or: Abort(.notFound))
        .map {
            $0.purchases.forEach {
                $0.notes = "Some value that comes from somewhere else that I can compute at resolution time"
            }
            return $0
        }
}

When I run my server and perform a query:

query {
  users(id: $userId) {
    userId
    purchases {
        name
        price
        notes
    }
}

The notes field in the graph comes back with a null.

I'm pretty sure this is just a lack of understanding of how this all works but at the moment I can't for the life of me work out how to enrich the response of a query with data that isn't coming from the db.

For context, I followed the setup and examples in this tutorial series: https://www.kodeco.com/21148796-graphql-tutorial-for-server-side-swift-with-vapor-getting-started#toc-anchor-001

Cross posted on StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77812573/how-to-enrich-a-response-using-graphql-vapor-and-graphiti

[cameroncooke]

I've solved this I didn't realise that I could just point the schema field at a custom resolver function 🤦 , once I worked that out I could then write my own query code. I am having problems with accessing the identifier of an OptionalParent on the root object. For some reason, I can only see a nil value, but if I change the field to Parent (non-optional) the value is non-nill even though the data is the same in both scenarios.