Support for Mongoose methods and statics

[zuhair-naqvi]

Is there a way to wire up the existing model methods and statics with resolve functions?

i.e. if my model User has a method User.statics.findSimilar() is there a way for me to expose this as a GraphQL type?

If this was a new application I would use pre and post hooks but theres TONNES of existing business logic within the mongoose statics that I would rather not replicate by hand!

Any thoughts?

[ghost]

Are you talking about static (model level) or method (instance level)?
I'm not sure how much sense exposing statics would make.

There isn't at the moment (as far as I know), but I'd imagine it wouldn't be too hard to implement.

[zuhair-naqvi]

@burkhardr Take the example of Animal.search from http://mongoosejs.com/docs/2.7.x/docs/methods-statics.html

In a lot of cases existing Mongoose schemas have business logic implemented as schema statics which I think become instance methods by default when a model is instantiated.

I think it makes sense for graffiti-mongoose to automatically add a Animal.search as a resolve function instead of requiring me to re-implement Animal.search manually, to give you some idea the schema I'm working on has 50+ models and most models have 30+ methods / statics with very specific logic and I'm sure I'm not the only one!

[zuhair-naqvi]

See #64 for a real use case