Using resolver methods

Above we have attached resolver functions to the schema only. However, it is also possible to define resolver methods on the resolved objects, starting with the root_value object that you can pass to the graphql() function when executing a query.

In our case, we could create a Root class with three methods as root resolvers, like so:

class Root:
    """The root resolvers"""

    def hero(self, info, episode):
        return luke if episode == 5 else artoo

    def human(self, info, id):
        return human_data.get(id)

    def droid(self, info, id):
        return droid_data.get(id)

Since we have defined synchronous methods only, we will use the graphql_sync() function to execute a query, passing a Root() object as the root_value:

from graphql import graphql_sync

result = graphql_sync(schema, """
    {
      droid(id: "2001") {
        name
        primaryFunction
      }
    }
    """, Root())
print(result)

Even if we haven’t attached a resolver to the hero field as we did above, this would now still resolve and give the following output:

ExecutionResult(
    data={'droid': {'name': 'R2-D2', 'primaryFunction': 'Astromech'}},
    errors=None)

Of course you can also define asynchronous methods as resolvers, and execute queries asynchronously with graphql().

In a similar vein, you can also attach resolvers as methods to the resolved objects on deeper levels than the root of the query. In that case, instead of resolving to dictionaries with keys for all the fields, as we did above, you would resolve to objects with attributes for all the fields. For instance, you would define a class Human with a method friends() for resolving the friends of a human. You can also make use of inheritance in this case. The Human class and a Droid class could inherit from a Character class and use its methods as resolvers for common fields.