updateOrCreate not possible with apollo-client

Graphcool added an updateOrCreate method https://www.graph.cool/forum/t/input-type-mutations-in-graphcool/726/4. The $id is not provided if its a new record. However, I’m not able to provide an optional $id because I get an error ID and ID! are not compatible.

Intended outcome:

mutation UpdateItem(
  $id: ID,
  $name: String!,
){
  updateOrCreateItem(
    update: {
      id: $id,
      name: $name
    }
    create: {
      name: $name
    }
  ){
    id
  }
}

Actual outcome:

Save Options Error: GraphQL error: Variable '$id' expected value of type 'ID!' but value is undefined...

Version “apollo-client-preset”: “^1.0.5”, “apollo-codegen”: “^0.18.3”, “apollo-link-context”: “^1.0.3”, “react-apollo”: “^2.0.4”,

[n1ru4l]

That is right because apollo-client checks if a param that is marked as required is provided.

[hwillson]

As mentioned in https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-client/issues/2861#issuecomment-357179901, this is not an apollo-client error. Thanks!