FSharp.Data.GraphQL.ProjectTemplates
2.0.0
See the version list below for details.
dotnet new install FSharp.Data.GraphQL.ProjectTemplates::2.0.0
FSharp.Data.GraphQL
F# implementation of Facebook GraphQL query language specification.
Installing project templates
Type the following commands to install the template for creating web applications:
From GitHub:
dotnet new -i "FSharp.Data.GraphQL::2.0.0-ci-*" --nuget-source "https://nuget.pkg.github.com/fsprojects/index.json"
From NuGet:
dotnet new -i "FSharp.Data.GraphQL::2.0.0"
Quick start
open FSharp.Data.GraphQL
open FSharp.Data.GraphQL.Types
type Person =
{ FirstName: string
LastName: string }
// Define GraphQL type
let PersonType = Define.Object(
name = "Person",
fields = [
// Property resolver will be auto-generated
Define.AutoField("firstName", StringType)
// Asynchronous explicit member resolver
Define.AsyncField("lastName", StringType, resolve = fun context person -> async { return person.LastName })
])
// Include person as a root query of a schema
let schema = Schema(query = PersonType)
// Create an Exector for the schema
let executor = Executor(schema)
// Retrieve person data
let johnSnow = { FirstName = "John"; LastName = "Snow" }
let reply = executor.AsyncExecute(Parser.parse "{ firstName, lastName }", johnSnow) |> Async.RunSynchronously
// #> { data: { "firstName", "John", "lastName", "Snow" } }
It's type safe. Things like invalid fields or invalid return types will be checked at compile time.
ASP.NET / Giraffe / WebSocket (for GraphQL subscriptions) usage
See the AspNetCore/README.md
Demos
GraphiQL client
Go to the GraphiQL sample directory. In order to run it, build and run the Star Wars API sample project with Debug settings - this will create a Giraffe server compatible with the GraphQL spec, running on port 8086. Then what you need is to run node.js graphiql frontend. To do so, run npm i
to get all dependencies, and then run npm run serve | npm run dev
- this will start a webpack server running on http://localhost:8090/ . Visit this link, and GraphiQL editor should appear. You may try it by applying following query:
{
hero(id:"1000") {
id,
name,
appearsIn,
homePlanet,
friends {
... on Human {
name
}
... on Droid {
name
}
}
}
}
Relay.js starter kit
A second sample is a F#-backed version of of popular Relay Starter Kit - an example application using React.js + Relay with Relay-compatible server API.
To run it, build FSharp.Data.GraphQL
and FSharp.Data.GraphQL.Relay
projects using Debug settings. Then start server by running server.fsx
script in your FSI - this will start a relay-compatible F# server on port 8083. Then build node.js frontend by getting all dependencies (npm i
) and running it (npm run serve | npm run dev
) - this will start webpack server running React application using Relay for managing application state. You can visit it on http://localhost:8083/ .
In order to update client schema, visit http://localhost:8083/ and copy-paste the response (which is the introspection query result from the current F# server) into data/schema.json.
Stream features
The stream
directive now has additional features, like batching (buffering) by interval and/or batch size. To make it work, a custom stream directive must be placed inside the SchemaConfig.Directives
list, this custom directive containing two optional arguments called interval
and preferredBatchSize
:
let customStreamDirective =
let args = [|
Define.Input(
"interval",
Nullable IntType,
defaultValue = Some 2000,
description = "An optional argument used to buffer stream results. ")
Define.Input(
"preferredBatchSize",
Nullable IntType,
defaultValue = None,
description = "An optional argument used to buffer stream results. ") |]
{ StreamDirective with Args = args }
let schemaConfig =
{ SchemaConfig.Default with
Directives = [
IncludeDirective
SkipDirective
DeferDirective
customStreamDirective
LiveDirective ] }
This boilerplate code can be easily reduced with a built-in implementation:
let streamOptions =
{ Interval = Some 2000; PreferredBatchSize = None }
let schemaConfig =
SchemaConfig.DefaultWithBufferedStream(streamOptions)
Live queries
The live
directive is now supported by the server component. To support live queries, each field of each type of the schema needs to be configured as a live field. This is done by using ILiveFieldSubscription
and ILiveQuerySubscriptionProvider
, which can be configured in the SchemaConfig
:
type ILiveFieldSubscription =
interface
abstract member Identity : obj -> obj
abstract member TypeName : string
abstract member FieldName : string
end
and ILiveFieldSubscription<'Object, 'Identity> =
interface
inherit ILiveFieldSubscription
abstract member Identity : 'Object -> 'Identity
end
and ILiveFieldSubscriptionProvider =
interface
abstract member HasSubscribers : string -> string -> bool
abstract member IsRegistered : string -> string -> bool
abstract member AsyncRegister : ILiveFieldSubscription -> Async<unit>
abstract member TryFind : string -> string -> ILiveFieldSubscription option
abstract member Add : obj -> string -> string -> IObservable<obj>
abstract member AsyncPublish<'T> : string -> string -> 'T -> Async<unit>
end
To set a field as a live field, call the Register
extension method. Each subscription needs to know an object identity, so it must be configured on the Identity function of the ILiveFieldSubscription
. Also, the name of the Type and the field inside the ObjectDef
needs to be passed along:
let schemaConfig = SchemaConfig.Default
let schema = Schema(root, config = schemaConfig)
let subscription =
{ Identity = fun (x : Human) -> x.Id
TypeName = "Hero"
FieldName = "name" }
schemaConfig.LiveFieldSubscriptionProvider.Register subscription
With that, the field name of the hero is now able to go live, being updated to clients whenever it is queried with the live
directive. To push updates to subscribers, just call Publish method, passing along the type name, the field name and the updated object:
let updatedHero = { hero with Name = "Han Solo - Test" }
schemaConfig.LiveFieldSubscriptionProvider.Publish "Hero" "name" updatedHero
Client Provider
Our client library now has a completely redesigned type provider. To start using it, you will first need access to the introspection schema for the server you are trying to connect. This can be done with the provider in one of two ways:
- Provide the URL to the desired GraphQL server (without any custom HTTP headers required). The provider will access the server, send an Introspection Query, and use the schema to provide the types used to make queries.
type MyProvider = GraphQLProvider<"http://some.graphqlserver.development.org">
- Provide an introspection json file to be used by the provider. Beware though that the introspection json should have all fields required by the provider. You can get the correct fields by running our standard introspection query on the desired server and saving it into a file on the same path as the project using the provider:
type MyProvider = GraphQLProvider<"swapi_schema.json">
From now on, you can start running queries and mutations:
let operation =
MyProvider.Operation<"""query q {
hero (id: "1001") {
name
appearsIn
homePlanet
friends {
... on Human {
name
homePlanet
}
... on Droid {
name
primaryFunction
}
}
}
}""">()
// This is a instance of GraphQLProviderRuntimeContext.
// You can use it to provider a runtime URL to access your server,
// and optionally additional HTTP headers (auth headers, for example).
// If you use a local introspection file to parse the schema,
// The runtime context is mandatory.
let runtimeContext =
{ ServerUrl = "http://some.graphqlserver.production.org"
CustomHttpHeaders = None }
let result = operation.Run(runtimeContext)
// Query result objects have pretty-printing and structural equality.
printfn "Data: %A\n" result.Data
printfn "Errors: %A\n" result.Errors
printfn "Custom data: %A\n" result.CustomData
// Response from the server:
// Data: Some
// {Hero = Some
// {Name = Some "Darth Vader";
// AppearsIn = [|NewHope; Empire; Jedi|];
// HomePlanet = Some "Tatooine";
// Friends = [|Some {Name = Some "Wilhuff Tarkin";
// HomePlanet = <null>;}|];};}
// Errors: <null>
// Custom data: map [("documentId", 1221427401)]
For more information about how to use the client provider, see the examples folder.
Middleware
You can create and use middleware on top of the Executor<'Root>
object.
The query execution process through the use of the Executor involves three phases:
Schema compile phase: this phase happens when the
Executor<'Root>
class is instantiated. In this phase, the Schema map of types is used to build a field execute map, which contains all field definitions alongside their field resolution functions. This map is used later on in the planning and execution phases to retrieve the values of the queried fields of the schema.Operation planning phase: this phase happens before running a query that has no execution plan. This phase is responsible for analyzing the AST document generated by the query, and building an ExecutionPlan to execute it.
Operation execution phase: this phase is the phase that executes the query. It needs an execution plan, so, it commonly happens after the operation planning phase.
All the phases wrap the needed data to do the phase job inside a context object. They are expressed internally by functions:
let internal compileSchema (ctx : SchemaCompileContext) : unit =
// ...
let internal planOperation (ctx: PlanningContext) : ExecutionPlan =
// ...
let internal executeOperation (ctx : ExecutionContext) : AsyncVal<GQLResponse> =
// ...
That way, in the compile schema phase, the schema is modified and execution maps are generated inside the SchemaCompileContext
object. During the operation planning phase, values of the PlanningContext
object are used to generate an execution plan, and finally, this plan is passed alongside other values in the ExecutionContext
object to the operation execution phase, wich finally uses them to execute the query and generate a GQLResponse
.
With that being said, a middleware can be used to intercept each phase and customize them as necessary. Each middleware must be implemented as a function with a specific signature, and wrapped inside an IExecutorMiddleware
interface:
type SchemaCompileMiddleware =
SchemaCompileContext -> (SchemaCompileContext -> unit) -> unit
type OperationPlanningMiddleware =
PlanningContext -> (PlanningContext -> ExecutionPlan) -> ExecutionPlan
type OperationExecutionMiddleware =
ExecutionContext -> (ExecutionContext -> AsyncVal<GQLResponse>) -> AsyncVal<GQLResponse>
type IExecutorMiddleware =
abstract CompileSchema : SchemaCompileMiddleware option
abstract PlanOperation : OperationPlanningMiddleware option
abstract ExecuteOperationAsync : OperationExecutionMiddleware option
Optionally, for ease of implementation, concrete class to derive from can be used, receiving only the optional sub-middleware functions in the constructor:
type ExecutorMiddleware(?compile, ?plan, ?execute) =
interface IExecutorMiddleware with
member _.CompileSchema = compile
member _.PlanOperation = plan
member _.ExecuteOperationAsync = execute
Each of the middleware functions act like an intercept function, with two parameters: the context of the phase, the function of the next middleware (or the actual phase itself, wich is the last to run), and the return value. Those functions can be passed as an argument to the constructor of the Executor<'Root>
object:
let middleware = [ ExecutorMiddleware(compileFn, planningFn, executionFn) ]
let executor = Executor(schema, middleware)
A simple example of a practical middleware can be one that measures the time needed to plan a query. The results of which get returned as part of the Metadata
of the planning context. The Metadata
object is a Map<string, obj>
implementation that acts like a bag of information to be passed through each phase, until it is returned inside the GQLResponse
object. You can use it to thread custom information through middleware:
let planningMiddleware (ctx : PlanningContext) (next : PlanningContext -> ExecutionPlan) =
let watch = Stopwatch()
watch.Start()
let result = next ctx
watch.Stop()
let metadata = result.Metadata.Add("planningTime", watch.ElapsedMilliseconds)
{ result with Metadata = metadata }
Built-in middleware
There are some built-in middleware inside FSharp.Data.GraphQL.Server.Middleware
package:
QueryWeightMiddleware
This middleware can be used to place weights on fields of the schema. Those weightened fields can now be used to protect the server from complex queries that could otherwise be used in DDOS attacks.
When defining a field, we use the extension method WithQueryWeight
to place a weight on it:
let resolveFn (h : Human) =
h.Friends |> List.map getCharacter |> List.toSeq
let field =
Define.Field("friends", ListOf (Nullable CharacterType),
resolve = resolveFn).WithQueryWeight(0.5)
Then we define the threshold middleware for the Executor. If we execute a query that ask for "friends of friends" in a recursive way, the executor will only accept nesting them 4 times before the query exceeds the weight threshold of 2.0:
let middleware = [ Define.QueryWeightMiddleware(2.0) ]
ObjectListFilterMiddleware
This middleware can be used to automatically generate a filter for list fields inside an object of the schema. This filter can be passed as an argument for the field on the query, and recovered in the ResolveFieldContext
argument of the resolve function of the field.
For example, we can create a middleware for filtering list fields of an Human
object, that are of the type Character option
:
let middleware = [ Define.ObjectListFilterMiddleware<Human, Character option>() ]
The filter argument is an object that is mapped through a JSON definition inside an filter
argument on the field. A simple example would be filtering friends of a hero that have their names starting with the letter A:
query TestQuery {
hero(id:"1000") {
id
name
appearsIn
homePlanet
friends (filter : { name_starts_with: "A" }) {
id
name
}
}
}
This filter is mapped by the middleware inside an ObjectListFilter
definition:
type FieldFilter<'Val> =
{ FieldName : string
Value : 'Val }
type ObjectListFilter =
| And of ObjectListFilter * ObjectListFilter
| Or of ObjectListFilter * ObjectListFilter
| Not of ObjectListFilter
| Equals of FieldFilter<System.IComparable>
| GreaterThan of FieldFilter<System.IComparable>
| LessThan of FieldFilter<System.IComparable>
| StartsWith of FieldFilter<string>
| EndsWith of FieldFilter<string>
| Contains of FieldFilter<string>
| FilterField of FieldFilter<ObjectListFilter>
And the value recovered by the filter in the query is usable in the ResolveFieldContext
of the resolve function of the field. To easily access it, you can use the extension method Filter
, wich returns an ObjectListFilter option
(it does not have a value if the object doesn't implement a list with the middleware generic definition, or if the user didn't provide a filter input).
Define.Field("friends", ListOf (Nullable CharacterType),
resolve = fun ctx (d : Droid) ->
ctx.Filter |> printfn "Droid friends filter: %A"
d.Friends |> List.map getCharacter |> List.toSeq)
By retrieving this filter from the field resolution context, it is possible to use client code to customize the query to run against a database, for example, and extend your GraphQL API features.
LiveQueryMiddleware
This middleware can be used to quickly allow your schema fields to be able to be queried with a live
directive, assuming that all of them have an identity property name that can be discovered by a function, IdentityNameResolver
:
/// A function that resolves an identity name for a schema object, based on a object definition of it.
type IdentityNameResolver = ObjectDef -> string
For example, if all of our schema objects have an identity field named Id
, we could use our middleware like this:
let schema = Schema(query = queryType)
let middleware = [ Define.LiveQueryMiddleware(fun _ -> "Id") ]
let executor = Executor(schema, middleware)
The IdentityNameResolver
is optional, though. If no resolver function is provided, this default implementation of is used. Also, notifications to subscribers must be done via Publish
of ILiveFieldSubscriptionProvider
, like explained above.
Using extensions to build your own middleware
You can use extension methods provided by the FSharp.Data.GraphQL.Shared
package to help building your own middleware. When making a middleware, often you will need to modify schema definitions to add features to the schema defined by the user code. The ObjectListFilter
middleware is an example, where all fields that implements lists of a certain type needs to be modified, by accepting an argument called filter
.
As field definitions are immutable by default, generating copies of them with improved features can be hard work sometimes. This is where the extension methods can help: for example, if you need to add an argument to an already defined field inside the schema compile phase, you can use the method WithArgs
of the FieldDef<'Val>
interface:
let field : FieldDef<'Val> = // Search for field inside ISchema
let arg : Define.Input("id", StringType)
let fieldWithArg = field.WithArgs([ arg ])
To see the complete list of extensions used to augment definitions, you can take a look at the TypeSystemExtensions
module contained in the FSharp.Data.GraphQL.Shared
package.
-
net6.0
- FSharp.Core (>= 7.0.403)
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