ObjectTypes¶

Quick example¶

This example model defines a Person, with a first and a last name:

import { ObjectType, Field } from "graphene-js";

@ObjectType()
class Person {
    @Field(String) firstName;
    @Field(String) lastName;
    @Field(String)
    fullName() {
        return `${this.firstName} ${this.lastName}`;
    }
}

firstName and lastName are fields of the ObjectType. Each field is specified as a class attribute, and each attribute maps to a Field.

The above Person ObjectType has the following schema representation:

type Person {
  firstName: String
  lastName: String
  fullName: String
}

Resolvers¶

A resolver is a method that resolves certain fields within a ObjectType. If not specififed otherwise, the resolver of a field is the resolve_{field_name} method on the ObjectType.

By default resolvers take the arguments args, context and info.

import { ObjectType, Field } from "graphene-js";

@ObjectType()
class Query {
    @Field(String, {args: {word: String}})
    reverse({word}) {
        return (word || "").split("").reverse().join("")
    }
}

Instances as data containers¶

Graphene ObjectTypes can act as containers too. So with the previous example you could do:

peter = new Person({firstName: "", lastName: ""})

peter.firstName # prints "Peter"
peter.lastName # prints "Griffin"