Using Aliases

Aliases are used to rename the result of a field. This is useful when you want to return multiple fields with the same name.

There are two ways to use aliases:

Alias Operator

See 06_Operators.md for more information.

Alias in the Query

Get a Car with id 82 and return the number of doors. The first value is the alias, the second value is the field name.

Request

{
  getCar(id: 82) {  
  doors: numberOfDoors
  }
}

Response

{
    "data": {
        "getCar": {
            "doors": 2
        }
    }
}