Channel Entries

The Channel Entries query is powered by the Channel Entries Tag and provides access to all of the same arguments.

The query returns a paginated response which means you will nest all of your requested fields within a data field as shown in the example below.

Example Usage

{
    exp_channel_entries(
        category_id: "21"
        channel: "about"
        status: "open",
        per_page: 2
    ) {
        data {
            entry_id
            title
            custom_channel_field
        }
        total
        per_page
        current_page
        from
        to
        last_page
        has_more_pages
    }
}

Modifiers

ExpressionEngine has a concept of variable modifiers where you can modify the output of a variable during display. Coilpack supports these modifiers in the context of GraphQL as arguments provided to the field you are requesting.

Here is an example of using the resize modifier available on File fieldtypes

{
    exp_channel_entries {
        data {
            entry_id
            about_image { # File Grid fieldtype
                image(resize: {width:100}) { # File fieldtype
                    url
                    width
                    height
                }
                caption
                align
            }
        }
    }
}

Here is an example of using the length modifier which is available on most fieldtypes. This example also demonstrates how to chain modifiers together to get the length of the page_content after it has gone through a limit modifier.

{
    exp_channel_entries {
        entry_id
        title
        page_content(length:true)
        excerpt_length:page_content(
            limit: {characters: 10, end_char: "..."},
            length: true
        )
    }
}

info

While the GraphQL specification treats arguments as unordered Coilpack does extra work to ensure the order of modifiers is maintained.