Field ResolversΒΆ
Field resolvers are how Lacinia goes beyond data modelling to actually providing access to data.
Field resolvers are attached to fields, including the root objects Query
, Mutation
, and Subscription
.
It is only inside field resolvers that a Lacinia application can connect to a database or
an external system: field resolvers are where the data actually comes from.
In essence, the top-level operations perform the initial work in a request, getting the root object (or collection of objects).
Field resolvers in nested fields are responsible for extracting and transforming that root data. In some cases, a field resolver may need to perform additional queries against a back-end data store.