Mutation and update cache

Now let's do the integration part. Open src/components/Todo/TodoItem.js and add the following code below the other imports:

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+ import { gql } from "@apollo/client";

Let's define the graphql mutation to update the completed status of the todo

src/components/Todo/TodoItem.js

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const TodoItem = ({index, todo}) => {

  const removeTodo = (e) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    e.stopPropagation();
  };

+  const TOGGLE_TODO = gql`
+    mutation toggleTodo ($id: Int!, $isCompleted: Boolean!) {
+      update_todos(where: {id: {_eq: $id}}, _set: {is_completed: $isCompleted}) {
+        affected_rows
+      }
+    }
+  `;

  const toggleTodo = () => {};

  return (
    ...
  );
};

export default TodoItem;

Apollo useMutation React hook

We need to use useMutation React hook to make the mutation.

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  import React from 'react';
- import { gql } from "@apollo/client";
+ import { useMutation, gql } from "@apollo/client";

  const TodoItem = ({index, todo}) => {
    const removeTodo = (e) => {
      e.preventDefault();
      e.stopPropagation();
    };

    const TOGGLE_TODO = gql`
    mutation toggleTodo($id: Int!, $isCompleted: Boolean!) {
      update_todos(
        where: { id: { _eq: $id } }
        _set: { is_completed: $isCompleted }
      ) {
        affected_rows
      }
    }
  `;

+ const [toggleTodoMutation] = useMutation(TOGGLE_TODO);

  return (
    ...
  );
 };

 export default TodoItem;

We already have the onChange handler toggleTodo for the input. Let's update the function to make a use of toggleTodoMutation mutate function.

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  const toggleTodo = () => {
+    toggleTodoMutation({
+      variables: {id: todo.id, isCompleted: !todo.is_completed},
+      optimisticResponse: true,
+    });
  };

The above code will just make a mutation, updating the todo's is_completed property in the database. To update the cache, we will be using the update function again to modify the cache. We need to fetch the current list of todos from the cache before modifying it. So let's import the query.

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+ import {GET_MY_TODOS} from './TodoPrivateList';

Now let's add the code for update function.

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  const toggleTodo = () => {
    toggleTodoMutation({
      variables: {id: todo.id, isCompleted: !todo.is_completed},
      optimisticResponse: true,
+      update: (cache) => {
+        const existingTodos = cache.readQuery({ query: GET_MY_TODOS });
+        const newTodos = existingTodos.todos.map(t => {
+          if (t.id === todo.id) {
+            return {...t, is_completed: !t.is_completed};
+          } else {
+            return t;
+          }
+        });
+        cache.writeQuery({
+          query: GET_MY_TODOS,
+          data: {todos: newTodos}
+        });
+      }
    });
  };

We are fetching the existing todos from the cache using cache.readQuery and updating the is_completed value for the todo that has been updated.

Finally we are writing the updated todo list to the cache using cache.writeQuery.