[DECLINED] Reference field (nested type) items filtering/paging with GraphQL API

Feature Requests Declined Features
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Say I have a one-to-many relationship between Blogs and Comments.
In squidex, I modelled this by defining a Blogs schema that have a “comments” field, of reference type, to Comments schema.

What I can do now, is issue GraqhQL queries like this:
(query simplified for readability)

query {
  queryBlogsContents(top: 5, skip: 10, orderby: "title desc", filter: "contains(status, 'PUBLISHED')") {
    title
    status
    comments {
      message
      date
    }
  }
}

And this will return all comments of selected blogs.
But I would like to be able to query in the following way:

query {
  queryBlogsContents(top: 5, skip: 10, orderby: "title desc", filter: "contains(status, 'PUBLISHED')") {
    title
    status
    comments(top: 5, skip: 10, orderby: "date desc", filter: "contains(message, 'squidex')") { // Note that the comments field now accepts arguments for paging/filtering..
      message
      date
    }
  }
}

So that I get only a subset of available comments, based on provided arguments.

In other words, I am proposing that reference fields can accept arguments (search, top, skip, orderby and filter) much like top level queries can.

I hope others will find this as useful as we do, and that it is not too difficult to implement.

Thank you

2

I guess it is useful but the performance will be horrible. With normal references you need only one additional API call, now you need N+1

3

I am not going to implement it for now because of performance.

4