Hello! We are currently experimenting with migrati...

# graphql-kotlin

[Jesper Hasselström]

Hello! We are currently experimenting with migrating our GraphQL app based on Kotlin with graphql-java-tools, to graphql-kotlin. We ran into an issue just now. We have a query that takes ids:List<String>? as an argument. When creating our schema we get an error:

Exception in thread "main" com.expediagroup.graphql.exceptions.InvalidInputFieldTypeException: Argument cannot be an interface or a union, parameter #1 ids of fun <X>.query(kotlin.collections.List<kotlin.String>?, kotlin.String?, kotlin.collections.List<kotlin.String>?): kotlin.collections.List<X>

How can this be solved?

[Jesper Hasselström]

Using an Array of Strings might be the best option I guess, but it would’ve been nice if the lib could automatically do that type conversion.

[Jesper Hasselström]

Or by solving it with some Scalar-stuff but that feels a bit awkward

[Jesper Hasselström]

Btw, we got reeeally far in just a few hours! Really liking the library! And it worked fine without Spring like we discussed in person at KotlinConf yesterday. ⭐

[Shane Myrick]

@Jesper Hasselström You are correct, that for input, the type must be a concrete class and not an interface. So the work around here is to use `Array`s.

I have create a new issue though to discuss this further and maybe track the addition of your feature request: https://github.com/ExpediaGroup/graphql-kotlin/issues/509

[Jesper Hasselström]

Thanks for getting back to me! I’ll bring this up with the team on Monday. Cheers!