Dan Freeman takes us through the concept of polymorphism as it applies to GraphQL:
In APIs (and in domain modeling in general) it’s common to want to represent fields that may point to one (or more) of several different types of object, a.k.a. polymorphism. In GraphQL’s type system, this can be accomplished with either a union or an interface, depending on whether the objects in question are expected to have anything in common.
What’s not always obvious to newcomers to GraphQL, though, is how to best handle that data on the receiving end, when you need to tell what concrete type of object you’re dealing with.
It’s interesting to see how this is handled in GraphQL versus object-oriented languages.