String

The String scalar type represents textual data, represented as UTF‐8 character sequences. The String type is most often used by GraphQL to represent free‐form human‐readable text. All response formats must support string representations, and that representation must be used here.

Result Coercion

GraphQL servers should coerce non‐string raw values to String when possible otherwise they must raise a field error. Examples of this may include returning the string"true"for a boolean true value, or the string"1"for the integer1.

Input Coercion

When expected as an input type, only valid UTF‐8 string input values are accepted. All other input values must raise a query error indicating an incorrect type.