Access async action id inside of action

[adas98012]

Discussed in #8750

^{Originally posted by talgat-ruby August 5, 2022}
Hi

For example, lets say I have async action someAsyncAction. I can access action_id in the client via graphql.

mutation SomeAsyncActionRequest($name: String!) {
  someAsyncAction(name: $name)
}

{
  "data": {
    "someAsyncAction": "23b1c256-7aff-4b95-95bd-68220d9f93f2"
  }
}

But this is client. How about within action code? I want to save the action_id ro db to show its status only for a particular user.

module.exports = async (req, res) => {
  const { input, action } = req.body // can access action description: name, but why not id?
  const { name } = input

  try {
    const resp = await heavyRequest(name)

    res.send({
      success: resp.data.success
    })
  } catch (err) {
    res.status(400).json({
      message: err.message
    })
  }
}

The only workaround I found is to Proxy asynchronous action with synchronous action. Isn't it overhead.

[rakeshkky]

The shape of action payload looks like the following (without any transformation)

{
  "action": {
    "name": "<action-name>"
  },
  "input": {
    "arg1": "<value>",
    "arg2": "<value>"
  },
  "session_variables": {
    "x-hasura-user-id": "<session-user-id>",
    "x-hasura-role": "<session-user-role>"
  },
  "request_query": "<request-query>"
}

We need to add action_id field to the payload, inside action object.

{
  "action": {
    "name": "<action-name>",
    "action_id": "<async-action-uuid>"
  },
  "input": {
    "arg1": "<value>",
    "arg2": "<value>"
  },
  "session_variables": {
    "x-hasura-user-id": "<session-user-id>",
    "x-hasura-role": "<session-user-role>"
  },
  "request_query": "<request-query>"
}

The action_id will be an optional value. It will be null for sync actions.