GraphQL Blackbox / "Any" type?

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Jon Cursi picture Jon Cursi · Aug 9, 2017 · Viewed 12.9k times · Source

Is it possible to specify that a field in GraphQL should be a blackbox, similar to how Flow has an "any" type? I have a field in my schema that should be able to accept any arbitrary value, which could be a String, Boolean, Object, Array, etc.

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Jon Cursi picture Jon Cursi · Aug 10, 2017

I've come up with a middle-ground solution. Rather than trying to push this complexity onto GraphQL, I'm opting to just use the String type and JSON.stringifying my data before setting it on the field. So everything gets stringified, and later in my application when I need to consume this field, I JSON.parse the result to get back the desired object/array/boolean/ etc.

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