Resolvers

A resolver performs GraphQL request processing. In general, it is responsible for constructing a query, fetching data and performing any calculations, then transforming the fetched and calculated data into a GraphQL array format. Finally, it returns the results wrapped by a callable function.

A GraphQL resolver must implement the \Magento\Framework\GraphQl\Query\ResolverInterface interface. This interface contains the requirement to return a \Magento\Framework\GraphQl\Query\Resolver\Value. This value takes in a callable function to its constructor that will be invoked at the latest possible time for the resolver to require its data. As a result, a list of items being resolved can be retrieved all at once by establishing a buffer that contains all relevant parent data to filter and fetch for the children list data.

You can view an example of this can be found inside the \Magento\BundleGraphQl\Model\Resolver\BundleItemLinks resolver. This resolver takes each bundle option ID and its corresponding parent product ID and stores them in a collection’s filter buffer (in this case, using the \Magento\BundleGraphQl\Model\Resolver\Links\Collection::addIdFilters() function). Each resolver then returns a callable that invokes this collection. The collection caches the result of all link entities it fetched for all the option_id/parent_id combinations. This fetch only needs to occur once for the whole BundleItemLink list, and each resulting callable that is invoked for every link in the list returns an item from the collections cached result.

A Value object wraps a callable object, and you can use \Magento\Framework\GraphQl\Query\Resolver\ValueFactory to create a value.