Adding virtual attribute to model

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Recently, I needed virtual attribute which combines or mutates original attributes.

Case 1. fullName which combines lastName and firstName
Case 2. studentCount which aggregates count from relation students

I want to achieve it on GraphQL. Is there a proper way to achieve it?

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Welcome @darron1217 :wave:,

Virtual fields are currently not possible by default, but there has been some discussion going on how to implement it. Checkout this RFC.

For now you could create a custom query in your GraphQL shema(s) to implement some custom logic. These docs could help you out:

Also the afterFind Lifecycle hook could help you out realizing the ‘calculated’ logic on student fetches.

Hope this helps :+1:

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Thanks it really helped :slight_smile:

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