Order by related fields

[marktani]

Example: a User has many Posts. Should be possible to order the Posts by User name.

Maybe:

query {
  allPosts(orderByRelated: [user_name_ASC]) {
    id
  }
}

[cameronk]

This would be a lifesaver!

[edtsech]

@marktani any workaround we can use for the time being?

[marktani]

The best workaround I'm aware of, is to order items client side 🙂

[shanecav]

It would be great to be able to order by "to-many" related fields as well (by the count of related items).

For example, to get a list of the top 10 most voted-for links (assuming votes is a related field of type [Vote!]!):

query {
  allLinks(first: 10, orderBy: votes_DESC) {
    id
    url
    description
    _votesMeta {
      count
    }
  }
}

Currently, to get that list you'd have to query for every Link and then sort/slice it on the client, which is potentially a ton of overfetching.

[kenyk7]

A question for when they plan to add this improvement?

[studentIvan]

+1 for this