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Ash Elixir•3y ago
Blibs

Remove/Limit FilterInput and SortInput fields from a specific action in GraphQL

So, let's say I have custom fields that I added to my action to handle filtering and sorting, for example: 
    read :read do
      primary? true

      argument :min_price, :decimal, default: nil
      argument :max_price, :decimal, default: nil

      argument :sort_by, :atom
...
    read :read do
      primary? true

      argument :min_price, :decimal, default: nil
      argument :max_price, :decimal, default: nil

      argument :sort_by, :atom
...
If I create a graphQL query from that action, it will contain the FilterInput and SortInput arguments (see image), is there a way to remove this so my query will only be filterable and sortable by the fields I want? Also, both FilterInput and SortInput seems to basically allow filtering and sorting through all the fields that my resource returns. Is there some way that I can limit that for a specific action somehow? For example, I would like to actually remove the :min_price and :max_price arguments from my action and make FilterInput only support the initialPrice (which is the field that these two arguments compare with).
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ZachDaniel
ZachDaniel•3y ago
🤔 I think right now there is not a way to customize the filter and sort objects in ash_graphql We can add an option to tell it that you don't want a given action to be filterable/sortable using the automatic behavior Whats the reasoning by not supporting the more flexible filter/sort that we add automatically? Happy to add options to customize/trim it down
Blibs
BlibsOP•3y ago
My main concern is that this would allow the user of the API to create queries that are not well optimized in the database, making it do a seq scan or something like this degrading the overall db performance. I understand that this is the whole point of GraphQL, but I'm still a little bit skeptical regarding giving too much freedom to the APIs users in this case.
ZachDaniel
ZachDaniel•3y ago
Yeah, that makes sense 🙂 well if you don’t mind opening a ticket on ash_graphql I’ll make the filter and sort types optional 🙂
Blibs
BlibsOP•3y ago
ZachDaniel
ZachDaniel•3y ago
🥳

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