Graphql-Access arguments in child resolvers

Question

I am using apollo-server and apollo-graphql-tools and I have following schema

type TotalVehicleResponse {
  totalCars: Int
  totalTrucks: Int
}

type RootQuery {
  getTotalVehicals(color: String): TotalVehicleResponse
}

schema {
  query: RootQuery
}

and Resolver functions are like this

{
  RootQuery: {
    getTotalVehicals: async (root, args, context) => {
      // args = {color: 'something'}
      return {};
    },
    TotalVehicleResponse: {
      totalCars: async (root, args, conext) => {
        // args is empty({}) here
        .........
        .........
      },
      totalTrucks: async (root, args, conext) => {
        // args is empty({}) here
        .........
        .........
      }
    }
  }
}

My question is that how can I access args which is available in root resolver(getTotalVehicals) in any of the child resolvers?

Answer 1

args refer strictly to the arguments provided in the query to that field. If you want values to be made available to child resolvers, you can simply return them from the parent resolver.

{
  RootQuery: {
    getTotalVehicles: async (root, args, context) => {
      return { color: args.color };
    },
    TotalVehicleResponse: {
      totalCars: async (root, args, context) => {
        // root contains color here
      },
      totalTrucks: async (root, args, context) => {
        // root contains color here
      }
    }
  }
}