GraphQL - cannot query comments using element uri or slug

[Ruben Nascimento]

Describe the bug

Executing a GraphQL query to fetch comments using uri or slug does not seems to be working.

On the documentation it is mentioned we can use element's uri or slug, but when I try to fetch comments with these I receive an empty array.

Using ownerId the comments do appear after executing the query.

Steps to reproduce

1. Create a couple of comments and approve these (in my case, the comments were done with guest enabled)
2. Fetch these with element slug or uri return empty array

Craft CMS version

4.2.4

Plugin version

2.0.2.1

Multi-site?

No

Additional context

No response

[Josh Crawford]

This is actually a mistake in the docs, sorry! Comments don't have a uri or slug so they can't be queried by them.

[Ruben Nascimento]

Hi @engram-design , I believe there's more things like this in documentation.

I just found out that you mention status in the docs but I am also not able to fetch anything if I use this.

Use case could be to show certain users pending comments.

query Page($uri: [String] = "__home__") {
  entry(uri: $uri) {
    id
    title
  }
  comments(ownerId: 1, status: "null") {
    uid
    id
    parent {
      id
      title
    }
    name
    email
    comment
  }
}

{
    "errors": [
        {
            "message": "Unknown argument \"status\" on field \"comments\" of type \"Query\".",
            "extensions": {
                "category": "graphql"
            },
            "locations": [
                {
                    "line": 6,
                    "column": 24
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

[Ruben Nascimento]

By the way, replying to your previous comment, it would be quite nice to fetch using uri or slug on GraphQL. It's quite common to fetch pages using these. And if I can use only ownerId I will need to execute two graphql queries, one to fetch entry data, the other to fetch comments related to the entry.

[Josh Crawford]

Querying for pending comments should be fine:

{
  comments(status: "pending") {
    uid
    id
  }
}

The issue is, comments don't have a value for uri or slug. Do you mean to say you want to query based on the owner's uri or slug?

[Ruben Nascimento]

Yes, it would be great to get this based on the owner uri. Another solution would be fetching inside the entries or entry but I believe that is not possible right? The CommentInterface is only available on the root.

[Josh Crawford]

I'll see what I can do about that. And yes, we can't modify the properties available on an EntryInterface.

You could use the relatedToEntries.

{
  comments(status: "pending") {
    uid
    id

    relatedToEntries: {slug: "my-entry"}
  }
}

[Ruben Nascimento]

Hi @engram-design was looking into this right now but unless I am doing something wrong or I am using an old version I am not able to use status to fetch comments.

The CommentInterface does not seem to have it:

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "Unknown argument \"status\" on field \"comments\" of type \"Query\".",
      "extensions": {
        "category": "graphql"
      },
      "locations": [
        {
          "line": 3,
          "column": 46
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

My graphql query is:

  query Comments($site: [String] = "enUS", $ownerId: [QueryArgument] = 1, $status: [QueryArgument] = "approved") {
    comments(ownerId: $ownerId, site: $site, status: $status) {
      ... on Comment {
        status
        uid
        id
        dateCreated
        dateUpdated
        parent {
          id
          title
        }
        name
        email
        comment
        profession # custom field
      }
    }
  }

PS: will also look at the relatedToEntries suggestion you just made! :)

[Ruben Nascimento]

Tried your suggestion and aloso follow the EntryCriteriaInput which is what it's being use on relatedToEntries, comments returns an empty array.

{
  comments(relatedToEntries: [{ uri: $uri, site: $site }]) {
      id
      uid
      title
    }
}

[Josh Crawford]

Strange. status is a property inherited from the ElementInterface

[Ruben Nascimento]

Shall I open a issue regarding this? Can it be that something change in a recent Craft version and Comments might not work as it should?

[Josh Crawford]

Not quite sure, looking into it though! I'm also on the same Craft 4 version as you.