mutation does not work due to authentication in 3-mutations-creating-links

[jseminck]

Hello!

Not sure if this is a bug... but first I did the server/backend code with the Node tutorial. In this project, we add authentication to the post mutation.

The steps in the FE tutorial setup the post mutation in a form. But the authentication is not yet implemented. As a result, I get the error Uncaught (in promise) Error: GraphQL error: Not authenticated instead of creating a new link.

https://www.howtographql.com/react-apollo/3-mutations-creating-links/

[craigblunden]

I had the same issue, I just moved forward to up until the Auth section to make sure it all worked accordingly but I agree its a bit jarring without that context.

[jh0l]

Yeah, one caveat of reusing the node tutorial code I guess. My workaround was commenting out the getUserId line in the post resolver and setting the postedBy field of the database api request to null,
like this

async function post(parent, args, ctx, info) {
  //const userId = getUserId(ctx);
  return await ctx.db.mutation.createLink(
    {
      data: {
        url: args.url,
        description: args.description,
        postedBy: null//{ connect: { id: userId } }
      }
    },
    info
  );
}

Which should work because the User field for the Link entity is not !. this is basically the reverse of what is done in the authentication section further in the react-apollo tutorial too so pretty easy to undo when necessary.

[itscarlosrufo]

Thanks @jseminck for opening this issue 😄. it should be fixed. Closing this!