Add a date type example?

[AndrewRayCode]

For a quickstart demo helper, it would be helpful for me to see how to define a date type and use it in a schema

[ghost]

Any news on this?

[itsjimmyh]

would also like to know

[rmosolgo]

Here's an example from howtographql: https://github.com/howtographql/graphql-ruby/blob/master/app/graphql/types/date_time_type.rb

[dblock]

Inspired from above.

Types::DateType = GraphQL::ScalarType.define do
  name 'Date'

  coerce_input ->(value, _ctx) { Time.zone.parse(value).to_date }
  coerce_result ->(value, _ctx) { value.iso8601 }
end

[dostu]

GraphQL::Types::ISO8601DateTime recently got added to graphql-ruby.

Usage example:
field :created_at, GraphQL::Types::ISO8601DateTime, null: false

[dblock]

I think we still need a Date, aka not a Date+Time type, no?

[bexuma]

You could use:
field :created_at, types.String

Which would have the following result:
"created_at": "2019-01-14 15:03:01 UTC"

On your client side you could have easily tailor the resulting field to serve your very needs.