Enhancement: Resolver option defaultAttributes

.eslintrc

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@
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@@ -246,5 +246,15 @@
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+  },
+  "globals": {
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+    "after": false,
+    "describe": false,
+    "expect": false,
+    "assert": false
   }
-}
+}

README.md

@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # graphql-sequelize
 
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+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/mickhansen/graphql-sequelize.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mickhansen/graphql-sequelize)
 [![Slack Status](http://sequelize-slack.herokuapp.com/badge.svg)](http://sequelize-slack.herokuapp.com)
 
 - [Installation](#installation)
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ The graphql-sequelize resolver will by default only select those attributes requ
 
 If you have non-database values that depend on other values you can either solve this by using virtual attributes with dependencies on your model or disable attribute filtering via `resolver.filterAttributes = false` or for specific resolvers with `resolver(target, {filterAttributes: false})`.
 
+#### Default attributes
+When filtering attributes you might need some fields every time, regardless of wether they have been requested in the query. You can specify those fields with the `defaultAttributes` resolver option like `resolver(target, {defaultAttributes: ['default', 'field', 'names']})`. A common use case would be the need to fetch a `userId` for every query and every resource of your domain model for permission checking -- in that case you would write your `resolver` functions like `resolver(target, {defaultAttributes: ['userId']})`.
+
 ### Features
 
 - Automatically converts args to where if arg keys matches model attributes
@@ -38,7 +41,7 @@ If you have non-database values that depend on other values you can either solve
 
 [Relay documentation](docs/relay.md)
 
-### Examples 
+### Examples
 
 ```js
 import {resolver} from 'graphql-sequelize';
@@ -236,7 +239,7 @@ attributeFields(Model);
 ### Renaming generated fields
 
 attributeFields accepts a ```map``` option to customize the way the attribute fields are named. The ```map``` option accepts
-an object or a function that returns a string. 
+an object or a function that returns a string.
 
 ```js
 
@@ -336,12 +339,12 @@ fullName: {
 
 ### defaultArgs
 
-`defaultArgs(Model)` will return an object containing an arg with a key and type matching your models primary key and 
+`defaultArgs(Model)` will return an object containing an arg with a key and type matching your models primary key and
 the "where" argument for passing complex query operations described [here](http://docs.sequelizejs.com/en/latest/docs/querying/)
 
 ```js
 var Model = sequelize.define('User', {
-  
+
 });
 
 defaultArgs(Model);
@@ -387,7 +390,7 @@ defaultArgs(Model);
     type: GraphQLString
   },
   where: {
-    type JSONType 
+    type JSONType
   }
 }
 ```

package.json

@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@
   "dependencies": {
     "babel-runtime": "^6.0.8",
     "graphql-relay": "^0.3.6",
+    "invariant": "2.2.1",
     "lodash": "^4.0.0"
   }
 }

src/resolver.js

@@ -4,11 +4,19 @@ import simplifyAST from './simplifyAST';
 import generateIncludes from './generateIncludes';
 import argsToFindOptions from './argsToFindOptions';
 import { isConnection, handleConnection, nodeAST, nodeType } from './relay';
+import invariant from 'invariant';
 
 function inList(list, attribute) {
   return ~list.indexOf(attribute);
 }
 
+function validateOptions(options) {
+  invariant(
+    !options.defaultAttributes || Array.isArray(options.defaultAttributes),
+    'options.defaultAttributes must be an array of field names.'
+  );
+}
+
 function resolverFactory(target, options) {
   var resolver
     , targetAttributes
@@ -26,6 +34,8 @@ function resolverFactory(target, options) {
   if (options.handleConnection === undefined) options.handleConnection = true;
   if (options.filterAttributes === undefined) options.filterAttributes = resolverFactory.filterAttributes;
 
+  validateOptions(options);
+
   resolver = function (source, args, info) {
     var root = info.rootValue || {}
       , ast = info.fieldASTs
@@ -61,6 +71,11 @@ function resolverFactory(target, options) {
       findOptions.attributes = Object.keys(fields)
         .map(key => fields[key].key || key)
         .filter(inList.bind(null, targetAttributes));
+
+      if (options.defaultAttributes) {
+        findOptions.attributes = findOptions.attributes.concat(options.defaultAttributes);
+      }
+
     } else {
       findOptions.attributes = targetAttributes;
     }

test/integration/relay/connection.test.js

@@ -765,7 +765,7 @@ if (helper.sequelize.dialect.name === 'postgres') {
                 edges {
                   ...projectOwner
                   node {
-                    id 
+                    id
                   }
                 }
               }
@@ -877,4 +877,4 @@ if (helper.sequelize.dialect.name === 'postgres') {
       });
     });
   });
-}
+}