@sortBy: Nulls ordering (NULLS FIRST/NULLS LAST)

[LastDragon-ru]

NULLs order different in different databases. Sometimes we need to change it. There is no default/built-it support in Laravel nor Lighthouse.

Useful links:

• https://learnsql.com/blog/how-to-order-rows-with-nulls/
• https://troels.arvin.dk/db/rdbms/#select-order_by

There are two parts:

• Default implementation and default (global) settings (@sortBy nulls ordering (config) #111)
• GraphQL property to change defaults from query (@sortBy nulls ordering (query) #119)

For the second part, I think we can add nulls extra operator that will change default behaviour. The problem (also related to default config) is: there is no way to know if the column/expression is nullable or not. This is mean that NULLS FIRST/NULLS LAST will be added into all ORDER BY clauses. It may be slow for databases without native NULLS FIRST/NULLS LAST support (MySQL and SQL Server). Unfortunately, I have no idea how to solve it.

The proposed syntax is shown below. Probably both fields should be required (to avoid ambiguity).

query {
    comments(order: [
        {nulls: {asc: First, desc: Last }},
        {user: {name: Asc}}
        {text: Desc}
    ])
}

Or better (it will affect only one clause):

query {
    comments(order: [
        {nullsFirst: {user: {name: Asc}}}
        {nullsLast: {text: Desc}}
    ])
}

Related to nuwave/lighthouse#2486, nuwave/lighthouse#2056

[LastDragon-ru]

Default implementation and default (global) settings

Available in the main branch 🎉 Any feedback greatly appreciated.

[LastDragon-ru]

The following syntax was added and will be available in the next major (v6) 🥳

query {
    comments(order: [
        {nullsFirst: {user: {name: Asc}}}
        {nullsLast: {text: Desc}}
    ])
}