https://www.bradcypert.com/tags/graphql/ Recent content in Graphql on BradCypert.com Hugo en-us Tue, 27 Dec 2022 16:51:00 -0500 https://www.bradcypert.com/using-mongos-objectids-with-go-graphql/ Sun, 20 Oct 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.bradcypert.com/using-mongos-objectids-with-go-graphql/ <p>I’ve been working on building a Graphql API in Go and recently ran into an issue serializing Mongo’s ObjectIDs. This doesn’t sound like a difficult task, and thankfully it’s not, but it wasn’t super obvious how to go about this.</p> <p>First, we need to identify what an object ID really is. In the official Mongo driver, we can see that there is a type representation for ObjectID. Additionally, there are methods to convert an ObjectID to a hex value and vice-versa. This means that we could maintain two structs for our models, one with the hex value for an ID and the other with the ObjectID (for encoding/decoding directly to mongo). However, this means that we’d also have to maintain two different models and translate between the two manually.</p>