GraphQL schema from a single object JSON file in Gatsby - graphql-js

Question

So I'd like to query a single JSON file which is not an array from Gatsby's GraphQL but I don't really know how to do it.
As far as I understand gatsby-transformer-json docs - it only supports loading arrays and have them accessible via allFileNameJson schema.
My gatsby-config plugins (only the necessary ones for this question):
{
resolve: 'gatsby-source-filesystem',
options: {
name: 'data',
path: `${__dirname}/src/data`
}
},
'gatsby-transformer-json'
And then let's say in src/data i have a something.json file, like this:
{
"key": "value"
}
Now I'd like to query the data from something.json file, but there is no somethingJson schema i can query (tried with Gatsby's GraphiQL).
Could someone point out what am I doing wrong or how can I solve this problem?

Answer 1

Ok, so it is possible to query single-object files as long as they have a parent (folder).
Let's take these parameters:
gatsby-source-filesystem configured to src/data
test.json file positioned at src/data/test.json with { "key": "value" } content in it
Now as the test.json file actually has a parent (data folder) - you can query the fields from test.json like this:
{
dataJson {
key
}
}
But putting those directly in your root folder is a bad practice, because when you will store another json file, i.e. secondtest.json with { "key2": "value2" } content, and will query it with the same query as above, you will get data only from a single node (not sure if it takes first, or last encountered node),
So, the perfect solution for this case is to have your single-object json files stored in separate folders with just one json per folder.
For example you have some "About Me" data:
create a about folder in your src/data
create an index.json file with i.e. { "name": "John" }
query your data
Like this:
{
aboutJson {
name
}
}
That's it.