Gqlgen generates structs with pointer

pointers-on-struct.md

What happened?

When I mark a field in graphql schema as non-mandatory, the struct generated model contains pointers instead of actual variable.

Graphql Schema	Generated Struct
input NewTodo { text: String userId: String }	type NewTodo struct { Text *string json:"text" UserID *string json:"userId" }

When the field is marked as mandatory,

Graphql Schema	Generated Struct
input NewTodo { text: String! userId: String! }	type NewTodo struct { Text string json:"text" UserID string json:"userId" }

the struct that gets created is with reference

type NewTodo struct {
	Text   *string `json:"text"`
	UserID *string `json:"userId"`
}

Reason

This is because, the fields when generated as mandatory -

• It should send values
• Values cannot be nil
• Else, gql will not know