I want to delete through custom dql: type Mutation { deleteEntityById(id: String!): Entity @custom(dql: """ upsert { query q($id: string) { E as var(func: type(Entity)) @filter(eq(Entity.id, $id)) { U as Entity.urls M as Entity.medias } …

The initial aim for adding custom DQL was just to give you the ability to perform complex DQL queries like aggregations, multiple var blocks and such. We didn’t support custom DQL mutations for the sake of simplification but we can definitely do that. Infact, you could right now define a GraphQL qu…

Why does custom dql not support mutation?

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chewxy (chewxy) September 15, 2020, 10:42am 2

I suspect that allowing mutations via @custom would cause a lot of headaches - your graphql code will no longer be deterministic.

But I think @pawan might be the best person to answer this and perhaps offer some discussions around it.

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Why does custom dql not support mutation?

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