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Addibro
Addibro

Reputation: 107

Always resolve certain field references in groq query

We have certain type of fields that point to a reference that we want to resolve. Is there a way to search for these fields, however deep down the tree they are, and apply the "->" on it? We have prefixed these field with "msg_".

An example structure might look like this, but could also be buried deeper into another "children" array:

"children":[
  0:{
   "_key":"e0baca937bf2"
   "_type":"hero"
   "backgroundImage":{...}
   "msg_subtitle":{
     "_ref":"2459a16f-8d54-4f7a-8a57-31ad6a100d44"
     "_type":"reference"
   }
   "msg_title":{
     "_ref":"91cb61db-029b-4117-8872-154c190f4195"
     "_type":"reference"
   }
}]

So we want all the fields starting with "msg_" 's hard reference.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1942

Answers (1)

Anders Stensaas
Anders Stensaas

Reputation: 749

You can't recursively traverse references in GROQ yet.

Were you thinking about something like this? I'm not exactly sure what you mean by search.

That would indeed be handy to have a possibility like that. That said, in many of these cases we have been asked about this before, we have uncovered that it's fine to use the -> explicitly, and at the same time found content modeling problems.

The answer to this question is no, but feel free to reach out in the Community Slack: https://slack.sanity.io/. It may be that we can help you out some more there, and it's easier to have discussions there.

Upvotes: 3

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