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Edition #12 - 24 Jul 2025
Topic tags - Connectors odyssey
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Hey all! 
@Michelle_Mabuyo here from the Apollo Education team. I’m a Developer Educator and I build courses for Odyssey, our official learning platform.
I’m back for the next edition of a multi-part series to teach you the basics of Apollo Connectors: a powerful way to bring existing REST APIs into your graph, all through configuration in the schema.
This week’s learning: Renaming fields with aliases in Connectors
When your REST API returns a field like description but your schema expects tagline, you can map it like this
selection: """
tagline: description
"""
This works for nested fields too! For example, simplifying tagId to id to follow GraphQL schema naming conventions.
selection: """
tags: tags {
id: tagId
name
}
Use this to keep your schema clean and client-friendly, without needing to change your backend.
Want to go deeper?
Practice this hands-on in Lesson 3 of “Expressions in Connectors: Mapping and Transforms” on Odyssey.
Share your thoughts in the thread below 
How often do you run into mismatched field names?