complex object types which are both output and input

currently I have this in my app:

@ObjectType()
export class OrganisationFeatures extends ConstructorAssigner {
  @Field() campaigns: boolean
  @Field() custom_email_sender_address: boolean
  @Field() OKTA_SAML: boolean
  @Field() search_analytics: boolean
  @Field() SCORM: boolean
  @Field() custom_font: boolean
}

@InputObjectType()
export class OrganisationFeaturesInput extends ConstructorAssigner {
  @InputField() campaigns: boolean
  @InputField() custom_email_sender_address: boolean
  @InputField() OKTA_SAML: boolean
  @InputField() search_analytics: boolean
  @InputField() SCORM: boolean
  @InputField() custom_font: boolean
}

I’d love to be able to define both at once doing:

@DuplexObjectType()  // using a special type I can register both at once
export class OrganisationFeatures extends ConstructorAssigner {
  @Field() campaigns: boolean
  @Field() custom_email_sender_address: boolean
  @Field() OKTA_SAML: boolean
  @Field() search_analytics: boolean
  @Field() SCORM: boolean
  @Field() custom_font: boolean
}

[pie6k]

Recursive field = User has Dog > Dog has owner User > owner User has Dog > Dog has owner user etc… Recursive = Circular and it’s not possible to reflect it in input field.

[pie6k]

Thanks for your PR.

I think that maybe another type may not be even needed. What about auto-converting it when @ObjectType is used as input type on the fly?

So we could do

@ObjectType()
export class FooType {
  @Field() bar: string;
}

and ten simply use it as argument type

@SchemaRoot()
export class FooType {
  @Mutation foo(input: FooType) bar: string;
}

That would feel more intuitive than having another type.

It would be good to check if given ObjectType is inputable eg. it does not have any recurrsive fields etc.

I’ll think about it as I don’t want to make typegql 'frameworkish`.

If that could be accomplished with reasonable api, then actually I stop seeing point of even having InputType at all. We could just validate types of arguments for if they’re able to be input.