Field Resolvers¶

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, Mutations, 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.