Enable both `useQuery` and a raw `query` from the frontend (for use in async validation)

Hello everyone, some context:

. I'm building a project with a variant of the t3 stack (key point: using trpc layered on tanstack query: trpc.xxx.yyy.useQuery({zzz}) )

. I'm using zod with react-native-forms, using the zodResolver (key point: form validation through zod, can't add external validation without a lot of hackiness)

. Schema Looks like this:
      const userDataSchema = z.object({
        email: z
          .string()
          .min(1, { message: "Email is required" })
          .email({ message: "Must be a valid email" })
          .superRefine(debouncedEmailUniquenessValidator),
        isDebug: z.boolean().default(true),
        online: z.boolean().nullish(),
      });

. Validation looks like this (called by the above debouncedEmailUniquenessValidator):
      const mockDbEmailCheck = async (email: string) => {
        await delay(250);
        return !["taken@gmail.com", "takentaken@gmail.com"].includes(email);
      };

. I'm building a project with a variant of the t3 stack (key point: using trpc layered on tanstack query: trpc.xxx.yyy.useQuery({zzz}) )

. I'm using zod with react-native-forms, using the zodResolver (key point: form validation through zod, can't add external validation without a lot of hackiness)

. Schema Looks like this:
      const userDataSchema = z.object({
        email: z
          .string()
          .min(1, { message: "Email is required" })
          .email({ message: "Must be a valid email" })
          .superRefine(debouncedEmailUniquenessValidator),
        isDebug: z.boolean().default(true),
        online: z.boolean().nullish(),
      });

. Validation looks like this (called by the above debouncedEmailUniquenessValidator):
      const mockDbEmailCheck = async (email: string) => {
        await delay(250);
        return !["taken@gmail.com", "takentaken@gmail.com"].includes(email);
      };

Question: In mockDbEmailCheck, I'd like to be able to run a raw query against trpc: something like const emailIsUnique = await trpc.xxx.emailIsUnique.query({email}). Is there a way to execute raw trpc queries from the frontend, as well as maintain the useQuery tanstack query wrapper? Essentially is it possible to create this:

const validateUniqueEmail = async (email: string) => {
  return await trpc.user.validate.uniqueEmail.query({ email })        <<=====
};

const userEmailSchema = z.object({
  email: z
    .string()
    .refine(validateUniqueEmail, { message: "Email must be unique" }),
  })

...

const UserEmailForm = ({ userId }: { userId: string }) => {
  const [data] = trpc.user.something.useQuery({ userId })             <<=====

  return (
    <Form schema={userEmailSchema}>
      ...
    </Form
  )
}

const validateUniqueEmail = async (email: string) => {
  return await trpc.user.validate.uniqueEmail.query({ email })        <<=====
};

const userEmailSchema = z.object({
  email: z
    .string()
    .refine(validateUniqueEmail, { message: "Email must be unique" }),
  })

...

const UserEmailForm = ({ userId }: { userId: string }) => {
  const [data] = trpc.user.something.useQuery({ userId })             <<=====

  return (
    <Form schema={userEmailSchema}>
      ...
    </Form
  )
}

Thanks everyone!

3 Replies

Nick•2y ago

How come you're using a query for sending data? It's best to use a mutation, and then react-query does give you an imperative API you can use

𝚁𝚘𝚐𝚞𝚎 𝙰𝚕𝚎𝚡𝚊𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛OP•2y ago

Ah I'm not, I'm using a mutation in the form submit. Thats just a oversight in the example code. I'm trying to use the query in the zod schema, where I need it to be an imperative call

Nick•2y ago

Yes if you need an imperative call, use a mutation In general Queries are for getting data with simple parameters, mutations are for sending data. A validation procedure is more of a mutation