GraphQL support

[neumino]

So I spent some time this week end to look at GraphQL, and we could support a graphQL command that would spin up an http server that can take a graphQL query as an input and fetch the related documents.

The problem with the official library - https://github.com/graphql/graphql-js - is that you can't do server side joins. Facebook seems to consider it's ok because they cache everything...
So we would have to write our own implementation of graphql.

• First we need to parse the graphQL query. There are a few parser in the wild, but I'm not sure which one is good
• Implement the transition from a GraphQL query to a thinky query
• Maybe fix Calling get().without() with enforce_missing:true causes an error #186 while we are at it

[rt2zz]

fwiw I think app based joins would be an acceptable trade off for many apps

[ondreian]

Is there anyway to return the relational links in the DB from normal queries that use joins?

Note: The links saved in the database are hidden from the result.

They are included in the feeds for a given query, and this would make app-based joins way easier in the short-term whilst this all shakes out.

[gyzerok]

It seems like you just need to write custom executor. Parser and validator can be used directly from graphql-js

[rodrigopivi]

this would be a great feature, are we too far away from this?

If we can export schemas https://github.com/contra/thinky-export-schema
and generate schemas https://github.com/devknoll/graphql-schema

[fenos]

Hi guys, I created a GraphQL implementation on top of thinky ORM. It has been challenging and fun to made up graphql-thinky and I also have some feedback for thinky which i'll open a ticket next days. The repository is very new, I wish a good community support to make it as production ready as possible. Please give a visit or two :) Feedbacks are very welcome

[doomedramen]

I feel like this is a little beyond the scope of the project, maybe a separate project for this?

[grantcarthew]

Agreed, closing.