Union Types

The Neo4j GraphQL Library supports the use of unions on relationship fields. For example, the following schema defines a User type, that has a relationship HAS_CONTENT, of type [Content!]!. Content is of type union representing either a Blog or a Post.

union Content = Blog | Post

type Blog {
    title: String
    posts: [Post!]! @relationship(type: "HAS_POST", direction: OUT)
}

type Post {
    content: String
}

type User {
    name: String
    content: [Content!]! @relationship(type: "HAS_CONTENT", direction: OUT)
}

Below you can find some examples of how queries and mutations work with this example.

Querying a union

Which union members are returned by a Query are dictated by the where filter applied.

For example, the following will return all user content, and you will specifically get the title of each blog.

query GetUsersWithBlogs {
    users {
        name
        content {
            ... on Blog {
                title
            }
        }
    }
}

Whilst the query below will only return blogs. You could for instance use a filter to check that the title is not null to essentially return all blogs:

query GetUsersWithAllContent {
    users {
        name
        content(where: { Blog: { NOT: { title: null } }}) {
            ... on Blog {
                title
            }
        }
    }
}

This is to prevent overfetching, and you can find an explanation of this here.

Creating a union

The below mutation creates the user and their content:

mutation CreateUserAndContent {
    createUsers(
        input: [
            {
                name: "Dan"
                content: {
                    Blog: {
                        create: [
                            {
                                node: {
                                    title: "My Cool Blog"
                                    posts: {
                                        create: [
                                            {
                                                node: {
                                                    content: "My Cool Post"
                                                }
                                            }
                                        ]
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            }
        ]
    ) {
        users {
            name
        }
    }
}