I have a dataloader that I'm using to batch requests to a service to get my user's addresses. The loader doesn't batch requests correctly when the parent resolver uses async code. Here's a general idea of what my code looks like:
// User.ts
import Demographic from './Demographic'
export type User {
name: 'User',
description: 'User',
...
fields: () => {
someField: ...
demographicInformation: {
type: Demographic,
resolve: async (source, args, context) => {
// removing the following line causes the loader in Demographics.ts to batch properly
const [hasViewPermissions, hasAuthForDemographics] = await Promise.all([getViewPermissions(), getAuthForDemographics()])
if (hasAuth && hasAuthForDemographics){ return source}
else { return null }
}
}
}
...
//Demographics.ts
export type Demographics {
name: 'somename',
description: '',
fields: {
name: // ...
address: {
type: Address,
resolve: async (source, args, context) => {
return myloaders.addressloader.load(myid)
}
}
}
I'm aware that the dataloader docs say that "DataLoader will coalesce all individual loads which occur within a single frame of execution (a single tick of the event loop)", however I don't fully understand why using an async/await messes that up if that's done in the parent resolver (User in my case). And, I need to have the parent check the auth using some form of async code, is there a way to still make these auth calls at the parent level and also use the dataloader effectively?
I've seen this issue noted in Github as well, but I don't think any workaround (such as adding the async calls to the loader) will work for me.