Lighthouse plugin for spatie/laravel-settings

A nice way to make Lighthouse receive and update typed settings from the laravel-settings plugin.

Install

composer require roboroads/lighthouse-laravel-settings

After installing you might want to re-generate the ide-helper files:

php artisan lighthouse:ide-helper

Usage

First, create your settings as normal. Let's say we have the following settings file

class GeneralSettings extends Settings
{
    public string $name;
    public string $url;
    public string $description;

    public static function group(): string
    {
        return 'general';
    }
}

Querying settings

Use @settings to tell Lighthouse to get settings using the same name as the type:

type GeneralSettings {
    name: String!
    url: String!
    description: String!
}

type Query {
    generalSettings: GeneralSettings! @settings
}

Note: if your type does not match the pattern App\Settings\TypeName (in this case App\Settings\GeneralSettings) you can use @settings(class: "\\Path\\To\\YourSettings").

Mutating settings

Use @settings to tell Lighthouse to update settings using the same name as the type:

type GeneralSettings {
    name: String!
    url: String!
    description: String!
}

type Mutation {
    updateGeneralSettings(
        name: String!
        url: String!
        description: String!
    ): GeneralSettings! @settings
}

Note: Except for @can, you can use @rules, @trim, etc. like you can when updating models.

Using @canSettings instead of @can

Since Lighthouse really wants to connect @can to an actual Model, you have to use @canSettings to use the ability to authorize the user for settings.

type Mutation {
    updateGeneralSettings(
        name: String!
        url: String!
        description: String!
    ): GeneralSettings! @settings @canSettings(ability: "editSettings")
}

//Defining a gate
Gate::define('editSettings', function (User $user, string $settingsClass) {
    return $user->isAdmin();
});

Optional configuration

If you want to tweak this plugin you can publish config/laravel-settings.php with:

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Roboroads\LighthouseSettings\ServiceProvider"

settings-namespace

Change the default namespace this package looks in when searching for settings.