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Explore possibility of generic types #415

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@AndrewIngram

As projects like Relay have shown, it's relatively common to repeat the same generic structures of types multiple times within a project. In the case of Relay, I'm talking about Connections.

The GraphQL definition language already has explicit support for one particular form of generic type, arrays:

type Foo {
   id: ID!
   bars: [Bar]
}

I'd like to start discussion about being able to do something similar for user-defined structures:

generic ConnectionEdge<T> {
   node: T
   cursor: String
}

generic Connection<T> {
   edges: ConnectionEdge<T>
   pageInfo: PageInfo
}

type Foo {
   id: ID!
   bars: Connection<Bar>
}

The overall goal is to reduce the amount of boilerplate in creating schemas with repetitive structures.

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  1. AndrewIngram commented on Jun 28, 2016

    @AndrewIngram
    Author

    Realised this should be on the spec repo, moving: graphql/graphql-spec#190

  2. langpavel commented on Sep 22, 2017

    @langpavel
    Contributor

    Hey, nice!
    But if you don't use GraphQL language itself but you create this schema on runtime, you only need higher order function as this is already done in graphql-relay.
    BTW every used generic type must be materialized somewhere, so can this be really useful?

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