Mutations

Your project endpoint exposes GraphQL mutations you can use to modify the contents of your project. The mutations API allows you to interact with content ouside of the Hygraph UI using GraphQL.

#Auto-generated mutations

When a new model is added to your project, so are custom GraphQL mutations.

For example, if you created a Product model, these mutations would also be generated inside your GraphQL schema:

• createProduct
• updateProduct
• deleteProduct
• upsertProduct
• publishProduct
• unpublishProduct
• updateManyProductsConnection
• deleteManyProductsConnection
• publishManyProductsConnection
• unpublishManyProductsConnection

All of these mutations accept input types that are specific to your projects GraphQL schema.

#Create entries

When creating new content entries, the data argument will have an associated input type that is specific to your content model.

For example, if your project contains the model Product, you will have:

The id is a default system field that is automatically generated for all new entries.

#Update entries

When updating single content entry, you must specify the unique where criteria of which you want to update, as well as the new data.

For example, if your project contains the model Product, you will have:

#Upsert entries

The upsert mutation allows you to create, or update a content entry based on whether the unique where values exist.

For example, if your project contains the model Product, you will have:

#Delete entries

Similar to updating, and upserting entries, you can specify using where the entries you want to delete.

For example, if your project contains the model Product, you will have:

#Nested mutations

• create: Create and relate entries
• connect: Connect additional existing entries by unique field
• update: Update the connected entries
• upsert: Create or update connected entries
• disconnect: Disconnect connected relations by unique field
• delete: Delete all connected entries
• set: Override all connected entries

#Create

#Update

#Insert at position

When inserting related entries, you can connect entries at a given position. The position of entries reflects that fetching relations.

The position input accepts the following values:

#Before

mutation {
  updateAuthor(
    where: { id: "..." }
    data: { posts: { connect: { position: { before: "..." } } } }
  ) {
    id
  }
}

#After

mutation {
  updateAuthor(
    where: { id: "..." }
    data: { posts: { connect: { position: { after: "..." } } } }
  ) {
    id
  }
}

#Start

mutation {
  updateAuthor(
    where: { id: "..." }
    data: { posts: { connect: { position: { start: true } } } }
  ) {
    id
  }
}

#End

mutation {
  updateAuthor(
    where: { id: "..." }
    data: { posts: { connect: { position: { end: true } } } }
  ) {
    id
  }
}

#Publishing content mutations

Hygraph automatically generates publish, and unpublish mutations for each of your content models, including the asset model.

Learn more about publishing and unpublishing content.

#Batch mutations

Hygraph supports batch mutations that can be applied to "many" entries at once. You may wish to update, or delete many entries at once that fit given criteria.

Batch mutations comply with the Relay connection type specification.

#Update many

To update many entries at once, you must use the updateMany[Model]Connection mutation. You can use where, or pagination filters to set the criteria you wish to update.

For example, let's update all products where featured: true, to be featured: false.

#Delete many

To delete many entries at once, you must use the deleteMany[Model]Connection mutation. You can use where, or pagination filters to set the criteria you wish to delete.

#Publish many

Just like you can publish content, you can also batch publish.

For example, we could publish the first 5 products to the PUBLISHED stage.

#Unpublish many

Just like you can batch publish, you can also batch unpublish.

#Localized content mutations

Depending on whether or not you have localized fields in your schema, you will be able to mutate each of the localized content entries.

Learn more about mutating localized content.

#Conditional fields

When you create a field via mutation, you can use visibilityCondition to set conditional visibility for it:

mutation CreateConditionalRichTextField {
  createSimpleField(
    data: {type: RICHTEXT, parentId: "6b0ce6afe6c74bd196948b3eb28501a3", apiId: "conditionalRichtext", displayName: "Conditional Richtext", isRequired: false, isUnique: false, isList: false, isLocalized: false, visibilityCondition: {baseField: "d1798ceb369c4aad98d6bd286b879109", operator: IS, booleanValue: true}}
  ) {
    migration {
      id
    }
  }
}

In this example parentId is an ID of a model or a component, and baseField is an ID of the field used for condition, in this case a boolean field.

To create an entry for an existing model and set a visibility condition:

In this example, Subsidiaries is a model that contains a publicHoliday boolean which, when set to true, makes the publicHolidayMessage field visible.

When you go to the content editor and access the edit view of this content entry, publicHolidayMessage will be visible:

Conditional visibility in the UI