A facade allows to adapt a type to its context of use by retaining only certain fields and by applying transformations.

"Show underlying types" on a facade, shows you a reconstruction of the underlying type model that was used to build the facade.

This representation is useful for people who know the business model and find there a familiar representation of the data contained in the facade. 

 

Let's assume that we have the Livre facade on the type book 

 

The option "Show underlying types", in the contextual menu of the facade graphic, allows you to visualize the reconstruction of the underlying type model without the facade transformations.

 

Description of the types and facades of the example

Types

type Book {
   isbn:String
   title:String
   enum:BookGenre
   genre: BookGenre
   author:Author
   reviews:[Review]
}

type Review {
    id:String
    review:String
    rating:Integer
}

type Author {
    id:String
    firstName:String
    lastName:String
    country:String 
}

type BookGenre {
    name:String
    description:String
}

facades

facade Livre on Book{
    titre:title
    genre:genre.name
    with author::Auteur
}

facade Auteur on Author{
    nomAuteur:lastName
    pays:country
}