I have json type field on Postgres and trying to create object type in GraphQL but compiler issuing error: == Compilation error in file lib/community_web/schema.ex == ** (Absinthe.Schema.Error) Invalid schema: /Users/kishore/CodeLearning/Elixir/community/lib/community_web/schema.ex:21: Values :js…

http://graphql-elixir.org/docs/basic-types/ is the documentation for graphql | Hex but it looks like you are using absinthe | Hex In Absinthe :json is not built-in and you need to add it to your project manually. Generally speaking you want to be cautious on over-relying on untyped JSON in GraphQL,…

The json db type may have an array or a map with unstructured keys. Unstructured data is strictly forbidden in GraphQL, so you’ll need to work around it. You have two primary options: If you are storing semi-structures data in the field (like a list of strings, of a map with a few possible keys), …

Thank you and seems this is the only way to crate custom json types.

I don’t know GraphQL well enough to try to help with the immediate problem, but there is a deeper conceptual problem going on here. JSON is not a data type. It is an encoding format. Even though that is the “field type” in the database, you conceptually have some sort of business domain type you are…

Thanks much for advise, got your point.

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