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best practice to load many relations ids from database #34

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I try to implement a solution that uses graphql-java and dataloader over a database.

I would like to know the best pratice to load a many relations when the nested ids required a database query.

in the documentation example, imagine that we replace starWarsCharacter.getFriendsIds() by a database query getFriendIdsFromDB(starWarsCharacter).
The friendsDataFetcher would looks like :

 DataFetcher friendsDataFetcher = new DataFetcher() {
            @Override
            public Object get(DataFetchingEnvironment environment) {
                StarWarsCharacter starWarsCharacter = environment.getSource();
                List<String> friendIds = getFriendIdsFromDB(starWarsCharacter);
                return characterDataLoader.loadMany(friendIds);
            }
        };

In this case it generates again a N+1 fetch problem. For each Character we have to query for the friends ids.

How to efficiently manage that case with the dataloader?

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