aor-simple-graphql-client

A simple GraphQL client for admin-on-rest built with Apollo

About GraphQL and Apollo

This library is meant to be used with Apollo on the client side but you're free to use any graphql server.

Installation

Install with:

npm install --save aor-simple-graphql-client

or

yarn add aor-simple-graphql-client

Usage

Let's create a file for our admin page admin.js:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { buildApolloClient } from 'aor-simple-graphql-client';

import { Admin, Resource } from 'admin-on-rest';
import { Delete } from 'admin-on-rest/lib/mui';

import { PostCreate, PostEdit, PostList } from '../components/admin/posts';

const client = new ApolloClient();

class AdminPage extends Component {
    constructor() {
        super();
        this.state = { restClient: null };
    }
    componentDidMount() {
        buildApolloClient()
            .then(restClient => this.setState({ restClient }));
    }

    render() {
        const { restClient } = this.state;

        if (!restClient) {
            return <div>Loading</div>;
        }

        return (
            <Admin restClient={restClient}>
                <Resource name="Post" list={PostList} edit={PostEdit} create={PostCreate} remove={Delete} />
            </Admin>
        );
    }
}

export default AdminPage;

And that's it, buildApolloClient will create a default ApolloClient for you and run an introspection query on your graphql endpoint.

By default, it expect the following queries and mutations for each resource:

### List resources with pagination

Example with resource Post:

getPageOfPosts(page: Int, perPage: Int, sortField: String, sortOrder: String, filter: String) {
    items: [Post]
    totalCount: Int
}

Note that the function should be named with the plural version of Post. We use pluralize to generate it.

filter may contain a serialized JSON object, for example:

'{ "authorId": "4e80878c-6baa-4506-a93c-ef99b74e73e0" }'

Get a resource

Example with resource Post:

getPost(id: ID!) Post

Create a new resource

Example with resource Post:

createPost(data: String) Post

data is a serialized JSON object, for example:

'{ "title": "My first post", "authorId": "4e80878c-6baa-4506-a93c-ef99b74e73e0", "body": "..." }'

Update a resource

Example with resource Post:

updatePost(data: String) Post

data is a serialized JSON object, for example:

'{ "id": "c02e92e8-2a21-4ae7-9197-cb9601861a44", "title": "My first post", "authorId": "4e80878c-6baa-4506-a93c-ef99b74e73e0", "body": "..." }'

Remove a resource

Example with resource Post:

removePost(id: ID!) Boolean

Options

Customize the Apollo client

You can either supply the client options by calling buildApolloClient like this:

buildApolloClient({ clientOptions: { uri: 'http://localhost:3000', ...otherApolloOptions } });

Or supply your client directly with:

buildApolloClient({ client: myClient });

Customize the introspection

These are the default options for introspection:

const introspectionOptions = {
    includeTypes: null, // Either an array of types to include or a function which will be called with each OBJECT type discovered through introspection
    excludeTypes: null, // Either an array of types to exclude or a function which will be called with each OBJECT type discovered through introspection (`Query` and `Mutation` are excluded anyway)
    includeQueries: null, // Either an array of queries to include or a function which will be called with each query discovered through introspection
    excludeQueries: null, // Either an array of queries to exclude or a function which will be called with each query discovered through introspection
    includeMutations: null, // Either an array of mutations to include or a function which will be called with each mutation discovered through introspection
    excludeMutations: null, // Either an array of mutations to exclude or a function which will be called with each mutation discovered through introspection
    excludeFields: null, // Either an array of fields to exclude or a function which will be called with each field discovered through introspection on a specific object (more details below)

    // This contains templates for defining the queries and mutations names which will also be used as the operations names
    templates: {
        GET_LIST: resourceType => `getPageOf${pluralize(resourceType.name)}`,
        GET_ONE: resourceType => `get${resourceType.name}`,
        CREATE: resourceType => `create${resourceType.name}`,
        UPDATE: resourceType => `update${resourceType.name}`,
        DELETE: resourceType => `remove${resourceType.name}`,
    },
}

And how you pass them to the buildApolloClient function:

buildApolloClient({ introspection: introspectionOptions });

Note that excludeXXX and includeXXX are mutualy exclusives and that includeXXX will always take precendance.

excludeFields deserves more details. If supplying a function, it will receive the following parameters:

• field: the field definition (see the documentation on introspection for more details)
• resource: the resource type (for example: Post)
• type: the operation type (matching those of admin-on-rest, for example: GET_LIST)

Supply your own queries and mutations

You need more control? Then provide your queries with the following format:

const queries = {
    Post: {
        GET_LIST: () => gql`your query`, // Variables will be: { page: Int, perPage: Int, sortFilter: String, sortOrder: String, filter: String }
        GET_MANY: () => gql`your query`, // Optional, see note below. Variables will be: { filter: String }
        GET_MANY_REFERENCE: () => gql`your query`, // Optional, see note below. Variables will be: { filter: String }
        GET_ONE: () => gql`your query`, // Variables will be: { id: ID }
        CREATE: () => gql`your query`, // Variables will be: { data: String }
        UPDATE: () => gql`your query`, // Variables will be: { data: String }
        DELETE: () => gql`your query`, // Variables will be: { id: ID }
    }
}

Note: GET_MANY and GET_MANY_REFERENCE are optional. If not specified, GET_LIST will be called with the filter and perPage set to 1000.

Realtime updates

Using ApolloClient, one is able to get real time updates when data changes: see their documentation for details.

With aor-simple-graphql-client, you can enable real time updates like this:

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import { buildApolloClient } from 'aor-simple-graphql-client';

import { Admin, Resource } from 'admin-on-rest';
import { Delete } from 'admin-on-rest/lib/mui';

import { PostCreate, PostEdit, PostList } from '../components/admin/posts';

const client = new ApolloClient();

class AdminPage extends Component {
    constructor() {
        super();
        this.state = { restClient: null };
    }
    componentDidMount() {
        buildApolloClient()
            .then(restClient => this.setState({ restClient }));
    }

    render() {
        const { restClient } = this.state;

        if (!restClient) {
            return <div>Loading</div>;
        }

        return (
            <Admin restClient={restClient} customSagas={[restClient.saga()]}>
                <Resource name="Post" list={PostList} edit={PostEdit} create={PostCreate} remove={Delete} />
            </Admin>
        );
    }
}

export default AdminPage;

We simply pass a custom saga to the Admin component.

By default, it will use the Apollo polling mechanism with a pollInterval of 2 seconds for all GET_LIST and GET_ONE requests.

Customization

You can specify the options to pass to the watchQuery function.

For all resources and request types

    const apolloWatchOptions = {
        pollInterval: 10000,
    };

    const apolloSaga = restClient.saga(apolloWatchOptions);

Or, you can supply a function instead of an object and it will be call with resource and requestType parameters:

    const apolloWatchOptions = (resource, requestType) => ({
        pollInterval: 10000,
    });

    const apolloSaga = restClient.saga(apolloWatchOptions);

For a specific resources and all request types

    const apolloWatchOptions = {
        Post: {
            pollInterval: 10000,
        },
        Comment: {
            pollInterval: 5000,
        },
    };

    const apolloSaga = restClient.saga(apolloWatchOptions);

Or, you can supply a function instead of an object and it will be call with a requestType parameter:

    const apolloWatchOptions = (resource, requestType) => {
        Post: {
            pollInterval: 10000,
        },
        Comment: {
            (requestType): => ({
                pollInterval: 5000,
            }),
        },
    };

    const apolloSaga = restClient.saga(apolloWatchOptions);

For a specific resources and request type

    const apolloWatchOptions = {
        Post: {
            pollInterval: 2000,
        },
        Comment: {
            GET_ONE: {
                pollInterval: 10000,
            },
            GET_LIST: {
                pollInterval: 5000,
            },
        },
    };

    const apolloSaga = restClient.saga(apolloWatchOptions);

Or, you can supply a function instead of an object:

    const apolloWatchOptions = (resource, requestType) => {
        Post: {
            pollInterval: 10000,
        },
        Comment: {
            GET_ONE: {
                pollInterval: 10000,
            },
            GET_LIST: {
                (): => ({
                    pollInterval: 5000,
                }),
            },
        },
    };

    const apolloSaga = restClient.saga(apolloWatchOptions);

TODO

• Sample application

Contributing

Coverage data is available in ./coverage after executing make test.

An HTML report is generated in ./coverage/lcov-report/index.html.