[4.0.0-beta.4] GQL isn't working?

[davidhellmann]

Description

Tried to use GQL within the GQL Playground but looks like it isn't working. Tested also with Craft 4.x and CKE 3.x and this is working.

Steps to reproduce

Additional info

• Craft version: 5.beta-1

[davidwebca]

Just realized the same thing just now. I tried changing the configs, creating new fields, with or without sub entries inside the field. Just came here to mention this in case it helps!

[davidwebca]

I take it back, I'm actually backtracking to fix the issue by downgrading the plugin one version at a time and I now realize that since v4 beta 1, it's been failing but I hadn't realized because they were released in quick successions.

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Re-edit: Sorry for the multiple posts. Actually I just found out that I can't downgrade and nothing works anymore, CKEditor seems broken with Craft beta 1 regardless of the CKEditor beta version used. A "[]" gets returned by GraphQL regardless of what version I downgrade to.

[brandonkelly]

Thanks for reporting that! Just released CKEditor 4.0.0-beta.5 with a fix.

[davidhellmann]

Follow-up question @brandonkelly

The output with entry blocks looks like this:

"textEditorDefault": "<p>Quo cu eius tollit instructior.</p><p>Entry 4051</p><p>Quo cu eius tollit instructior.</p><p>Entry 4052</p><p>An populo iriure interesset sit!.</p>"

Is a children's method coming, or how does that work in the future? Just want to know if I can build on top of that or go straight with a Matrix field at the moment.

Thank you!

[carlcs]

@davidhellmann You need to set up element partials for the entry types that you're embedding within your CKEditor fields.

https://craftcms.com/docs/5.x/system/elements.html#rendering-elements

[davidhellmann]

Oh, thought that was also for twig templates. I'll have a look. Thank you!

[brandonkelly]

Just released Craft 5.0.0-beta.2 and CKEditor 4.0.0-beta.6, which adds support for querying and mutating nested entries within CKEditor fields directly (craftcms/cms#14366).

So if you want to fetch nested entry data without having it pre-rendered as HTML via the partial template, you could have your partial template just include a placeholder referencing the entry ID, e.g.

<div data-craft-entry-id="{{ entry.id }}"></div>

And then fetch the nested entry data via a second GraphQL query, and do whatever you want from there.

Note that if you’re creating new nested entries via GraphQL, you will need to update the parent element’s CKEditor field value with a new <craft-entry> tag referencing it, before it will actually show up within the field.

<craft-entry data-entry-id="123"></craft-entry>