Clarify 'Values of Correct Type' rule relates to literals#1118
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Clarify 'Values of Correct Type' rule relates to literals#1118
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Good clarification 👍
Left a few additional questions that arose while doing the review but the PR in itself is an improvement from the current state and I support merging it.
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An Input Value is defined as being either a variable (if not const) or one of the literal types (IntValue, FloatValue, StringValue, BooleanValue, NullValue, EnumValue, ListValue or ObjectValue).
The rule "Values of Correct Type" states:
However, an input value can be a variable, and variable coercion is handled at runtime (by CoerceVariableValues). Further, we already have a rule that validates that variables are only used in the positions in which they are allowed: All Variable Usages Are Allowed.
It seems to me that "Values of Correct Type" only meant to handle literal input values, so I've added the word "literal" for clarity. I've also expanded the explanation to reference where to look for variable input value validation. Since input coercion for Input Object references "runtime value", and validation doesn't have access to runtime values, I've made explicit the assumption that values represented by variables will be of the requisite type.
This is an alternative solution to, and
Thank you to @yaacovCR for pointing out this deficiency 🙌