Enum of "tuples" in GraphQL to represent Languages-CodePudding

I would like to represent many languages in my GraphQL schema using:

Language's ISO Name
Language's own endonym
its ISO 639-1 code
its ISO 639-3 code

Ideally it would look something like

enum Language {
  (English, English, en, eng)
  (German, Deutsch, de, deu)
  (Mandarin, 官话, zh, cmn)
  (Cantonese, 廣東話, zh, yue)

Because every combination of the values must be unique. However, this isn't a supported representation in GraphQL, so I thought of this kind of workaround:

type Language {
  isoLanguageName: ISOLanguageName!
  endonym: LanguageEndonym!
  iso639_1: ISO639_1
  iso639_3: ISO639_3
}

enum ISOLanguageName {
  English
  German
  Mandarin
  Cantonese
}

enum LanguageEndonym {
  English
  Deutsch
  官话
  廣東話
}

enum ISO639_1 {
  en
  de
  zh
}

enum ISO639_3 {
  eng
  deu
  cmn
  yue
}

But I'm not sold on this at all because it doesn't specify the necessary-by-definition relationships between the values.

How can I represent languages by these data in the schema?

CodePudding user response：

GraphQL doesn't have the semantics needed to define valid combinations of enums. Your types are fine as is. I suggest just creating a JSON file that contains all the language definitions and importing it as needed (unless you'd prefer this in a database table). Also recommend an ID for the Language type for caching.

To import a JSON file:

import languages from 'languages.json';

languages.json: (as an object with language codes as keys, could also be done as an array)

{
  "en" : {
    "isoLanguageName": "English",
    "endonym": "English",
    "iso639_1": "en",
    "iso639_3": "eng"
  },
  "de" : {
    "isoLanguageName": "German",
    "endonym": "Deutsch",
    "iso639_1": "de",
    "iso639_3": "deu"
  },
  …more languages
}