ID Types

There are a few important things related to the use of IDs.

Every GraphQL type defined in your schema file is required to have an id field.

• This field must be called id
• The type of this id field must by a u64
  • You typically want to use the ID type for these id fields

Why must every field have an ID?

Since the Fuel Indexer uses WASM runtimes to index events, an FFI is needed to call in and out of the runtime. When these calls out of the runtime are made, a pointer is passed back to the indexer service to indicate where the id of the type/object/entity being saved is.

Is this liable to change in the future?

Yes, ideally we'd like ID's to be of any type, and we plan to work towards this in the future. 👍