Now that we're on Go 1.16+ we can do this easily! The main advantage is
it means users can build a genqlient binary and use that portably (or we
could distribute one, or whatever). Plus the code is marginally simpler;
the `embed` API is really quite nice.
Fixes#9.
Test plan:
```
make check
go build .
rm -rf generate # pretend we have no checkout
./genqlient ./internal/integration/genqlient.yaml
./genqlient --init # fails after generating a default config
```
## Summary:
genqlient has some code (`imports.go`) dedicated to tracking which
imports we need and avoiding conflicts, as well as converting a
(restricted) Go expression like `map[string]github.com/me/mypkg.MyType`
to an import (`github.com/me/mypkg`) and a type-reference
(`map[string]mypkg.MyType`) to be used in the context of that import,
and at least making some attempt to track conflicts. (Right now the
conflict-avoidance is not very smart, and not very well tested, but it
comes up rarely anyway.) Sadly, that code was a bit cumbersome to use,
because you had to first register the imports (typically from
`convert.go`), then use them (often from the template).
In this commit I refactor the order we write things in order to allow a
significant simplification of how we import; in particular we no longer
have to guess in advance what imports which template will need; it can
just do `{{ref <expr>}}` as before, and it just works. To do this, I:
- changed the importer to have only one API, which adds the import if
needed, and returns the reference either way
- added a check that we don't add imports after they're written
- reorganized the toplevel templates a bit to make sure that check never
fires; we now generate all the types and operations, then write the
imports and glue it all together
This removes a bunch of silly code, and should simplify the process of
adding custom (un)marshalers (#38).
While I was at it, I put the documentation of what expressions we
support in a more visible place, and added a type-assertion that your
custom context type implements context.Context (if applicable).
## Test plan:
make check
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: StevenACoffman, dnerdy, aberkan, jvoll, mahtabsabet, MiguelCastillo
Required Reviewers:
Approved By: StevenACoffman, dnerdy
Checks: ⌛ Test (1.17), ⌛ Test (1.16), ⌛ Test (1.15), ⌛ Test (1.14), ⌛ Lint, ⌛ Test (1.17), ⌛ Test (1.16), ⌛ Test (1.15), ⌛ Test (1.14), ⌛ Lint
Pull Request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/101
## Summary:
Steve pointed out (#73) that having genqlient with no arguments silently
use a default config file was a bit confusing, and changed it to use
`genqlient.yaml` by default (#74). Mark pointed out (#76) that this
makes it a bit less convenient when you're starting from scratch; you
have to go create a config file. In this commit I add a new init flag
that creates you a config file before using it.
Originally the suggestion was to use subcommands, e.g. we'd have
`genqlient init` and `genqlient generate` and so on. But I couldn't
think of anything else we might want subcommands for in the future, and
it felt a little silly to make you type `generate` each time. So
instead, I made it a flag, which has the nice property that you can do
`genqlient --init` and it will generate and then use a config file. (I
mean, maybe it will immediately crash because you don't have a schema,
but hopefully that's still a useful clue as to what to do next!) The
implmentation was fairly trivial.
Since we now have a nice way to generate a default config, I removed the
default values for most of the options; I've always felt they were
probably more confusing than helpful. (And indeed, all the users I know
of (Khan/webapp, and the much smaller project Steve was working on, are
setting those options explicitly.) This required a slight change to
the syntax to say "don't use context", which is probably also net clearer.
I decided this is also a good time to pull in a proper CLI parser (#31);
see ADR-504 for more on that choice. This also adds some nice help
messages!
Fixes#76, #31.
Issue: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/76
## Test plan:
```
go run .
go run . --init
go run . --init example/genqlient.yaml # refuses to clobber
go run . --init example/newgenqlient.yaml
```
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: dnerdy, aberkan, MiguelCastillo, StevenACoffman
Required Reviewers:
Approved By: dnerdy
Checks: ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Lint, ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Lint
Pull Request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/81
## Summary:
In this commit I remove one of the limitations of our support for
interfaces, from #52, by adding support for list-of-interface fields.
This was surprisingly complex! The issue is that, as before, it's the
containing type that has to do all the glue work -- and it's that glue
work that is complicated by list-of-interface fields.
All in all, it's not that much new code, and by far the hard part is
just 20 lines in the UnmarshalJSON template (which come with almost
twice as many lines of comments to explain them). It may be easiest to
start by reading some of the generated code, and then read the template.
I also added support for such fields with `pointer: true` specified,
such that the type is `[][]...[]*MyInterface`, although I don't know why
you would want that. This does *not* allow e.g. `*[]*[][]*MyInterface`;
that would require a way to specify it (see #16) but also add some extra
complexity (as we'd have to actually walk the type-unwrap chain
properly, instead of just counting the number of slices and whether
there's a pointer).
Issue: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/8
## Test plan:
make check
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: dnerdy, benjaminjkraft, aberkan, csilvers, MiguelCastillo
Required Reviewers:
Approved by: dnerdy
Checks: ⌛ Test (1.17), ⌛ Test (1.16), ⌛ Test (1.15), ⌛ Test (1.14), ⌛ Test (1.13), ⌛ Lint, ⌛ Lint, ⌛ Test (1.17), ⌛ Test (1.16), ⌛ Test (1.15), ⌛ Test (1.14), ⌛ Test (1.13)
Pull request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/54
