No read function for parent types

[kelvin2200]

Hello everybody,

I can’t seem to find a way to read an entire type without having to resort to individual fieldPolicies for every field in that type.

const cache = new InMemoryCache({
    typePolicies: {
        SomeType: {
            fields:{
                // defining individual field (READ) policies would be insane (at least for my case)
                // is there at least something like a wildcard mechanism?
            },
            merge, // yeah... possible at type level
            read // ??? not possible, so... Is there any other way to do this?
            // I want to be able to return a different ref based on some condition
        }
    }
})

[jpvajda]

Thank you for reporting this! you can try posting this in our Apollo Community for guidance from other Apollo users, as other's may have input into your question. I'll leave this open here a well to see if anyone has any ideas.

[bignimbus]

Hi @kelvin2200 👋🏻 just going through some old issues and this one came up - I know it's almost two years later but please let us know if there's anything we can do to help. I don't think there's a built-in API for doing what you're doing, but maybe if we knew more about your use case we could suggest a way to use existing APIs to achieve what you're trying to do. Let me know!

[kelvin2200]

Well, I guess it's better late than never, and I'm not dead yet, which is good.

Thank you for your reply @bignimbus, but the problem is a bit more complex, and the fact that nobody chose to tackle this, says something.

For a more detailed explanation, i've provided one in the apollo community, which is as old as this one, and still without answer.

I really doubt anybody has an answer, or is willing to provide one

[bignimbus]

I see it here: https://community.apollographql.com/t/apollo-client-field-policies-field-policy-for-read-at-type-level-not-field-level/3725

Will respond in that thread :)

[bignimbus]

Will close this issue and re-route conversation to the thread above. Thanks!

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