How to access built-in directives?

[spasarok]

Hello! How do I access query values for built-in directives like @skip and @include? I cannot find a way to access these values in order to apply them to the server-side query resolution.

[pavelnikolov]

Hi @spasarok,

These built-in directives are handled by the lib automatically. You do not have to do anything on the server-side to apply them. See unit tests, for example, TestSkipDirective and TestIncludeDirective.

[spasarok]

@pavelnikolov Thanks for the response. I've already tested this and reviewed the source code, and it looks like the library doesn't support this. My discussion question was mostly to confirm that I'm not missing something. Are you open to PRs?

[pavelnikolov]

PRs are welcome.

[spasarok]

Awesome. I don't have the bandwidth to implement this right now, but I'll look into this if I find the time. It would be a useful performance gain for my project. Thank you!

[spasarok]

In conclusion, the module does handle omitting fields marked with @skip from the response structure returned to the user. However, I cannot currently find a way to prevent the server from still processing fields marked with @skip. If I do find a way to achieve this, I will update here.

Update: @skip appears to work as expected when using method resolvers. I will switch to method resolvers for fields I want to enable skipping. Thanks!