Convert snake_case to camelCase field names in apollo-server-express

Question

I'm new to GraphQL and Apollo Server, though I have scoured the documentation and Google for an answer. I'm using apollo-server-express to fetch data from a 3rd-party REST API. The REST API uses snake_case for its fields. Is there a simple way or Apollo Server canonical way to convert all resolved field names to camelCase?

I'd like to define my types using camel case like:

type SomeType {
  id: ID!
  createdTime: String
  updatedTime: String
}

but the REST API returns object like:

{
  "id": "1234"
  "created_time": "2018-12-14T17:57:39+00:00",
  "updated_time": "2018-12-14T17:57:39+00:00",
}

I'd really like to avoid manually normalizing field names in my resolvers i.e.

Query: {
    getObjects: () => new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        apiClient.get('/path/to/resource', (err, response) => {
            if (err) {
                return reject(err)
            }

            resolve(normalizeFields(response.entities))
        })
    })
}

This approach seems error prone, given that I expect the amount of resolvers to be significant. It also feels like normalizing field names shouldn't be a responsibility of the resolver. Is there some feature of Apollo Server that will allow me to wholesale normalize field names or override the default field resolution?

Answer 1

The solution proposed by @Webber is valid.

It is also possible to pass a fieldResolver parameter to the ApolloServer constructor to override the default field resolver provided by the graphql package.

const snakeCase = require('lodash.snakecase')

const snakeCaseFieldResolver = (source, args, contextValue, info) => {
  return source[snakeCase(info.fieldName)]
}

const server = new ApolloServer({ 
  fieldResolver: snakeCaseFieldResolver,
  resolvers,
  typeDefs
})

See the default field resolver in the graphql source code