Introspection

Subtopics

The introspect operator gets the schema object corresponding to a given type. This object can be used in introspection queries, like the ones from the previous section. Let's try introspecting Person:

Input

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select (introspect Person) {
  name,
  properties: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  },
  links: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  }
};

select (introspect Person) {
  name,
  properties: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  },
  links: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  }
};

Output Objects

Press the 'Run' button to evaluate the input

This operator can also work with expressions, statically inferring the expression type and getting the schema object that corresponds to it. In order to do that an additional keyword typeof is required:

Input

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# Identical to the last query except Person 
# has been replaced with "typeof Movie.actors"
select (introspect typeof Movie.actors) {
  name,
  properties: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  },
  links: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  }
};

# Identical to the last query except Person 
# has been replaced with "typeof Movie.actors"
select (introspect typeof Movie.actors) {
  name,
  properties: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  },
  links: {
    name,
    target: {
      name
    }
  }
};

Output Objects

Press the 'Run' button to evaluate the input

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