[fro0116]

My personal major pain point with Apollo is with the need to manually manipulate the cache to keep it in sync after a mutation that adds or removes an item from a list, which feels really clunky and error prone compared to the much more elegant workflow of updating an individual entity, where the cache gets updated automatically by Apollo's normalization. See https://www.apollographql.com/docs/angular/features/caching....

Ideally I'd like to be able to specify a unique identifier for a list through a directive on a query, and then specify the same identifier on the mutation, to have the result of the list in the mutation automatically replace the contents of that key in the cache (or append onto it for use cases like pagination, possibly in combination with another directive for sorting the combined list on the client-side?).

I was hoping to be able to do something like this using the @connection directive: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/features/pagination...

Unfortunately, when I tried this it looks like the @connection directive actually creates separate nested keys for mutations vs queries, so unfortunately this use case isn't possible yet. I'd love to hear how others are approaching this problem, especially those using other caching graphql clients like Relay. Or maybe I'm missing some better way to handle this in Apollo itself?

[ryanar]

If you use fragments you shouldn't need to write update logic. Also you can use `dataIdFromObject` on your apollo cache to control how unique ids are done.

[fro0116]

Curious how fragments can be applied to the use case of creating a new item and having a query for the list of items updated automatically? For instance, in the createTodo mutation & todos query example here: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/angular/features/caching....

I was hoping to be able to expose the list of todos on the createTodo mutation response, and have Apollo update the cache automatically by querying for it in the mutation response, rather than writing the newly created item to the appropriate location in the cache manually. From my research into it so far, it looks like that's not currently possible, but I'd love to be wrong about that!