Optional but non-nullable fields in GraphQL

type language { _id: ObjectId iso: Language_ISO auto_translate: Boolean name: Name updated_at: Date_time created_at: Date_time } input language_create { iso: Language_ISO! auto_translate: Boolean name: Name! } input language_update { _id: ObjectId! iso: Language_ISO! auto_translate: Boolean name: Name }

What you're effectively looking for is custom validation logic. You can add any validation rules you want on top of the "default" set that is normally included when you build a schema. Here's a rough example of how to add a rule that checks for null values on specific types or scalars when they are used as arguments:

const { specifiedRules } = require('graphql/validation')
const { GraphQLError } = require('graphql/error')

const typesToValidate = ['Foo', 'Bar']

// This returns a "Visitor" whose properties get called for
// each node in the document that matches the property's name
function CustomInputFieldsNonNull(context) {
  return {
    Argument(node) {
      const argDef = context.getArgument();
      const checkType = typesToValidate.includes(argDef.astNode.type.name.value)
      if (checkType && node.value.kind === 'NullValue') {
        context.reportError(
          new GraphQLError(
            `Type ${argDef.astNode.type.name.value} cannot be null`,
            node,
          ),
        )
      }
    },
  }
}

// We're going to override the validation rules, so we want to grab
// the existing set of rules and just add on to it
const validationRules = specifiedRules.concat(CustomInputFieldsNonNull)

const server = new ApolloServer({
  typeDefs,
  resolvers,
  validationRules,
})

EDIT: The above only works if you're not using variables, which isn't going to be very helpful in most cases. As a workaround, I was able to utilize a FIELD_DEFINITION directive to achieve the desired behavior. There's probably a number of ways you could approach this, but here's a basic example:

class NonNullInputDirective extends SchemaDirectiveVisitor {
  visitFieldDefinition(field) {
    const { resolve = defaultFieldResolver } = field
    const { args: { paths } } = this
    field.resolve = async function (...resolverArgs) {
      const fieldArgs = resolverArgs[1]
      for (const path of paths) {
        if (_.get(fieldArgs, path) === null) {
          throw new Error(`${path} cannot be null`)
        }
      }
      return resolve.apply(this, resolverArgs)
    }
  }
}

Then in your schema:

directive @nonNullInput(paths: [String!]!) on FIELD_DEFINITION

input FooInput {
  foo: String
  bar: String
}

type Query {
  foo (input: FooInput!): String @nonNullInput(paths: ["input.foo"])
}

Assuming that the "non null" input fields are the same each time the input is used in the schema, you could map each input's name to an array of field names that should be validated. So you could do something like this as well:

const nonNullFieldMap = {
  FooInput: ['foo'],
}

class NonNullInputDirective extends SchemaDirectiveVisitor {
  visitFieldDefinition(field) {
    const { resolve = defaultFieldResolver } = field
    const visitedTypeArgs = this.visitedType.args
    field.resolve = async function (...resolverArgs) {
      const fieldArgs = resolverArgs[1]
      visitedTypeArgs.forEach(arg => {
        const argType = arg.type.toString().replace("!", "")
        const nonNullFields = nonNullFieldMap[argType]
        nonNullFields.forEach(nonNullField => {
          const path = `${arg.name}.${nonNullField}`
          if (_.get(fieldArgs, path) === null) {
            throw new Error(`${path} cannot be null`)
          }
        })
      })      

      return resolve.apply(this, resolverArgs)
    }
  }
}

And then in your schema:

directive @nonNullInput on FIELD_DEFINITION

type Query {
  foo (input: FooInput!): String @nonNullInput
}

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