Is there any reference docs on the (node) prisma c...
# prisma-clienta
Ash Berlin-Taylor
02/01/2019, 3:26 PMIs there any reference docs on the (node) prisma client? It took me about 40 mins just now to work out the difference between
await prisma.createUser(mutation)prisma.createUser(mutation).id()n
nuno
02/01/2019, 3:33 PMhttps://www.prisma.io/docs/prisma-client/ does this help?
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Ash Berlin-Taylor
02/01/2019, 3:36 PMNo - it doesn't mention anything about the "colum methods" (for lack of a better name) available on the promise
Ash Berlin-Taylor
02/01/2019, 3:36 PMIt just talks about "In this case, the returned user object will have four properties (that correspond to the scalar fields of the User model): id, name, email and password"
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nuno
02/01/2019, 3:58 PMi thought those methods only existed for relation fields
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nikolasburk
02/01/2019, 4:01 PM
There are some docs for the Prisma Client API here: https://www.prisma.io/docs/prisma-client/basic-data-access/reading-data-JAVASCRIPT-rsc2/ Please let me know if that helps!
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nuno
02/01/2019, 4:13 PMcan't see nothing about chain methods for scalar fields
nuno
02/01/2019, 4:15 PMtrying to do
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await ctx.prisma.createUser(data).username() Copy code
Error: Field 'username' of type 'String' must not have a sub selection. (line 3, column 5):
username {
^
at BatchedGraphQLClient.<anonymous> (/usr/src/app/node_modules/http-link-dataloader/src/BatchedGraphQLClient.ts:74:13)
at step (/usr/src/app/node_modules/http-link-dataloader/dist/src/BatchedGraphQLClient.js:40:23)
at Object.next (/usr/src/app/node_modules/http-link-dataloader/dist/src/BatchedGraphQLClient.js:21:53)
at fulfilled (/usr/src/app/node_modules/http-link-dataloader/dist/src/BatchedGraphQLClient.js:12:58)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:68:7)a
Ash Berlin-Taylor
02/01/2019, 4:36 PM@nikolasburk Same comment - those don't mention anything about the column accessors on the promise that I could see
Ash Berlin-Taylor
02/01/2019, 4:36 PM@nuno Based off this example https://github.com/prisma-csb/prisma-client-demo-js/blob/master/src/writing-data/create-update-delete.js#L14-L18
Ash Berlin-Taylor
02/01/2019, 4:39 PM Copy code
const newUser = prisma.createUser({
name: 'Alice',
email: '<mailto:alice@prisma.io|alice@prisma.io>',
})
console.log(`Id `, await newUser.id())4 Views