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Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe
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Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

by Bruce Williams, Ben Wilson
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Object

Description

GraphQL objects represent a list of named fields, each of which yields a value of a specific type.

Note that object types cannot be used for input (instead, see “InputObject” below).

Absinthe Macro

object

Examples

In an Absinthe schema:

 @desc ​"​​A person"
 object ​:person​ ​do
  field ​:name​, non_null(​:string​)
 # Other fields
 end
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