strictIdInTypes

Property	Value
Config name	strictIdInTypes
Default severity	—
Context	Schema
In recommended	No

What it checks

Require ID field in object types.

Examples

# ❌ Bad — object type without ID field
type User {
  name: String
  email: String
}

# ✅ Good — object type with ID field
type User {
  id: ID!
  name: String
  email: String
}

Options

Option	Type	Default	Description
acceptedIdNames	string[]	["id"]	Field names that satisfy the unique identifier requirement.
acceptedIdTypes	string[]	["ID"]	GraphQL types (non-null) that are accepted as the identifier field’s type.
exceptions	object	{}	Types or type-name suffixes to exclude from this rule.
exceptions.types	string[]	[]	Exact type names to skip (e.g. ["Error", "PageInfo"]).
exceptions.suffixes	string[]	[]	Type-name suffixes to skip — any type whose name ends with one of these is excluded (e.g. ["Payload", "Connection"]).

Configuration

extensions:
  graphql-analyzer:
    lint:
      rules:
        strictIdInTypes: warn

# Accept _id as well as id, allow UUID type, and skip payload types
        strictIdInTypes:
          - warn
          - acceptedIdNames: ["id", "_id"]
            acceptedIdTypes: ["ID", "UUID"]
            exceptions:
              types: ["Error"]
              suffixes: ["Payload", "Connection"]