union SearchResult = Photo | Person type Person { name: String age: Int } type Photo { height: Int width: Int } type SearchQuery { firstSearchResult: SearchResult }

Discuss Union types.

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union types, schema evolution, resolver design

GraphQL Unions represent an object that could be one of a list of GraphQL Object types, but provides for no guaranteed fields between those types. They also differ from interfaces in that Object types declare what interfaces they implement, but are not aware of what unions contain them.

With interfaces and objects, only those fields defined on the type can be queried directly; to query other fields on an interface, typed fragments must be used. This is the same as for unions, but unions do not define any fields, so no fields may be queried on this type without the use of type refining fragments or inline fragments

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