GraphQL "not equal" operator?

Question

I have a GraphQl API for listing a bunch of items, and I can query it perfectly etc. But now I'd like to query for a subset of that list where one property can have 'all possible values except one specific one'.

For example, I want to query something like this:

{
  items(status: !"Unwanted"){
    id
  }
}

That exclamation mark obviously doesn't work, but it illustrates what I am after. Can't find any information about this online.

Does anybody know of a way to do this? I would really hate having to enumerate all possible wanted values instead of just excluding the one unwanted value. This would be really bad design and is not scalable.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Use ne :

{
  items(filter: {status: {ne: "Unwanted"}}){
    id
  }
}

Answer 2

If you can define the schema (implement the server) then you can add a second argument like statusExcept to the items field. Then in the resolve method check if status or statusExcept was set and deliver the items according to that.

It the server API is fixed there is afaik nothing that you can do except getting everything and filter on the client.