I am querying a field which returns a list of Cont...

# apollo-kotlin

[Stylianos Gakis]

I am querying a field which returns a list of Contract like [Contract!]!.
In my case, I actually am only interested in the size of that list for this particular situation. Because I just wanna know if there are any contracts.
Then on my .graphql file, I got this

...
  activeContracts {
    id
  }
...

but I am getting unused field on the id, since well... I am not in fact using it 😄

There's no notion of just fetching a list without anything in there in GQL right? Is my best bet to just add # noinspection ApolloUnusedField over the id to not get a warning?

[mbonnin]

There's no notion of just fetching a list without anything in there in GQL right?

Indeed there needs to be a selection.

[mbonnin]

I guess the idiomatic way would be to return something like a Connection or so where you have the list size as page metadata

[mbonnin]

Otherwise # noinspection ApolloUnusedField indeed

[Stylianos Gakis]

Right, we do not have pagination basically anywhere in our entire schema so noinspection it is for us. Thanks 🙏

[ephemient]

tried __typename?

[Stylianos Gakis]

Yeah, that could work too, the IDE plugin is still letting me know that I am not using it, so in the end I suppose it does not entirely matter.
At least __typename I know for sure I won't be trying to use from the code though