Generation of schema with array of refs to another collection doesn't work

[Dzmitry Bayarchyk]

If I have the following field type in mongoose schema

MySchema = new mongoose.Schema({
    items: [{
        type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
        ref: 'Item',
    }],
});

And I want to generate graphql schema using this:

ExerciseType = createType({
    name: 'MyType',
    description: 'My schema',
    class: 'GraphQLObjectType',
    schema: MySchema,
    exclude: ['items'],
    extend: {
      items: {
        type: new GraphQLList(ItemType),
        resolve: (root, params, context) => {
          ...
        },
      },
    },
});

I get the following error:

Error:
type with name "Item" doesn't exist,
but was specified as population reference.

As I understand when I exclude items field and extend this schema with my custom field it should skip generation of items and use my custom specification for this field

[Sarkis]

Hi, if you are using the same name of prop. you shouldn't exclude it, just add it to extend and that's it it will replace original one.

[Dzmitry Bayarchyk]

Hi
Thanks for your response, but I also tried your approach, but it didn't fix this issue.

[Sarkis]

ref: 'Item' is Item model specified? can I see the whole file? I never test referencing another schema by using ref: 'model name', but anyway it should just replace it. So if you can provide me the full example I can test it and see what's going on.

[Dzmitry Bayarchyk]

MuscleModel.js

import mongoose from 'mongoose';

export const MuscleSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: {
    type: String,
    required: true,
    unique: true,
  }
}, { collection: 'muscles', timestamps: true, versionKey: false });

export default mongoose.model('Muscle', MuscleSchema);

ExerciseModel.js

import mongoose from 'mongoose';

export const ExerciseSchema = new mongoose.Schema({
  name: {
    type: String,
    required: true,
    unique: true,
  },
  muscules: [{
    type: mongoose.Schema.Types.ObjectId,
    ref: 'Muscle',
  }],
}, { collection: 'exercises', timestamps: true, versionKey: false });

export default mongoose.model('Exercise', ExerciseSchema);

ExerciseType.js

export const ExerciseType = createType({
  name: 'ExerciseType',
  description: 'Exercise schema',
  class: 'GraphQLObjectType',
  schema: ExerciseSchema,
  exclude: ['muscules'],
  extend: {
    muscules: {
      type: new GraphQLList(MuscleType),
      resolve: (root, params, context) => {
          // Resolve code here.
      },
    },
  },
});

MuscleType.js

export const MuscleType = createType({
  name: 'MuscleType',
  description: 'Muscle schema',
  class: 'GraphQLObjectType',
  schema: MuscleSchema,
});

[Sarkis]

ok can you try new version mongoose-schema-to-graphql@2.7.0 should be fixed, and don't exclude that field if you are using the same name in extend

[Dzmitry Bayarchyk]

Cool, that works, thanks for your hard work