How to handle hyphens in GraphQL Schema definitions
GraphQL Returns the following error: Error: Names must match /^[_a-zA-Z][_a-zA-Z0-9]*$/ but "png-xlarge" does not.
GraphQL complains that field name 'png-xlarge' is invalid. The regular expression in error message says that the first character can be a letter irrespective of case or underscore. The remaining characters can also have digit. Therefore, it is clear that neither hyphen - nor single quote ' is acceptable for a field name. The rules basically follow the variable naming rules that you find in almost every programming language. You can check the GraphQL naming rules.
If I am trying to model the GraphQL after my Mongoose model, how can I reconcile the fields? Is there a way for me to create an alias?
With the help of resolve function, you can do this as follows:
pngXLarge: { type: GraphQLString, resolve: (imageFormats) => { // get the value `xlarge` from the passed mongoose object 'imageFormats' const xlarge = imageFormats['png-xlarge']; return xlarge; },},