Question: Ability to retrieve a UID in a mutation resolver

[pixeldrew]

I'm trying to use the uid as a key to mutate data in my resolver, since the uid only lives in the directive and is output via a graphql query i'm having a hard time designing the best way to link the uid back to the data outside of the graph. ie.

const schema = gql`
directive @uid(from: [String]) on OBJECT

type Element @uid(from: ["email", "name"]) {
  name: String!
  email: String!
}

type Query {
  elements: [Element]
}

mutation DeleteElement($uid:String) {
  deleteElement(uid:$uid) : Boolean
}`;

const elements = [{name:"bill", email: "blah@blah.com"}]
const resolvers = {
  Query: {
    elements: () => elements
  },
  Mutations: {
    deleteElement: (parent, {uid}) => {
      // how am I supposed to find the index in elements without redoing the hash work you do in the resolve function of UniqueIdDirective
   
    }
  }
}

I understand I could redo the work that is done here UniqueId.visitObject()fields[].resolve
but this seems like a hack.

Should this uid be used for anything but caching? Is there another way to resolve the uid outside of the graph? Has anyone done something else to resolve this problem?

[czystyl]

The lib was created mainly for support better caching on the client-side.

You are passing arguments to @uid directive so you can predict the unique.

What we could do is to pass created UUID to the context or root resolver?