Need a directive for a single model query about lighthouse HOT 7 CLOSED

@kikoseijo What some of us is aiming for is basically defining our whole query with directives. And when we have more advanced queries, then have a custom scope to handle that.
However this package does not limit us to one approach which I like a lot, so we can easily use a repository pattern or just use the query builder directly.

I got a big system which I have been able to easily translate to graphQL by using scopes and the directives, so I am a big fan of query builder manipulation approach. ( I have only translated the fetching of data, not inserting/updating)

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Can't you just use the node endpoint and then use the global ID?

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@olivernybroe if we were using relay yep, that's exactly how we'd do it, but as you can see from the example I also want to be able to find the single user from their email. User is just one example of where we'd want to find a single model by a given field that isn't the id.

Obviously we could just paginate and only take the first item, but that's certainly not ideal!

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Yep, got it. So should the directive be called find or should it be called first?

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I think that depends on whether we want to throw an error if the query would return more than one result? To me I feel it would likely be an error if the built query wasn't specific enough to nail just one result?

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Maybe we should have both? Both of them should be easy to make, and I can see a use case for both of them. So find requires the result to only return 1 row, while first just takes the first result.

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Hummm,

Im a bit amazed, seems we want to be able to do all with a single schema definition?

Don't know about you, but when you can resolve a query using a repository, a class method, or ... isn't better to have an Eloquent repository and use one of your hand made methods to resolve this queries?

keep it simple and elegant!

Just some thoughts.

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