## Summary:
In this commit I reorganize much of our documentation into a new `docs`
directory, where there will hopefully be more room to grow and to
organize things in a user-friendly way. There's almost no net-new
documentation, although of course it's a great time to review it anyway.
In particular:
- I moved the documentation for the `genqlient.yaml` config file into an
example file instead of GoDoc (which now just points to the example
file); I think this will be a lot clearer for casual users.
- I moved the documentation for the `@genqlient` directive out of GoDoc
and into a GraphQL schema file (since while it's a comment it's all
real syntax), likewise, and made the `GenqlientDirective` type private
(since there's now nothing useful to do with it).
- I moved `DESIGN.md` and the logo into `docs/` (just to keep the
toplevel a bit cleaner), and separated the Contributing section of the
README into `docs/CONTRIBUTING.md` (which github will automatically
link on various issue and PR pages).
This leaves it so that:
- README.md is the only documentation at the toplevel (and will become
just the high-level introduction as I add more user docs to `docs/`)
- GoDoc is only documentation for if you want to call genqlient
programmatically (which is fairly limited as the API surface is quite
small: it's now just Main, Generate, and Config, plus a constructor, a
single method, and a bunch of fields on the latter)
In future commits, I'll add some more new documentation to the `docs`
directory.
Issue: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/26
## Test plan:
make check (and read the docs)
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: jvoll, benjaminjkraft, aberkan, dnerdy, MiguelCastillo, mahtabsabet
Required Reviewers:
Approved By: jvoll
Checks: ✅ Lint, ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Lint
Pull Request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/84
## Summary:
Before open-sourcing, we want to make sure that (a) GoDoc looks
reasonable, and (b) everything in the API is something we want to commit
to. In this commit, I do some miscellaneous cleanup on both fronts;
this does involve a few breaking changes to the programmatic API (better
now than once it has users). In future commits, I'll likely move the
documentation for `genqlient.yaml` and `@genqlient` to clearer places,
and make `GenqlientDirective` private, such that GoDoc is really only
for programmatic users.
Fixes#25.
Issue: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/25
## Test plan:
make check
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: dnerdy, benjaminjkraft, jvoll, aberkan, MiguelCastillo, mahtabsabet
Required Reviewers:
Approved By: dnerdy, jvoll
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/82
## 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:
ContextType is in use at Khan as a part of our ka-context system; it
basically just lets you configure the type to pass as the `ctx` argument
to genqlient helpers (or say to omit such an argument). ClientGetter I
wrote thinking we might use it; then we didn't (because we have a few
different clients we may use) but it's not much code and may be helpful
to others. In this commit I clean up, document, and add tests for both
options.
The cleanup is mainly for ClientGetter, which was kind of broken before
because it was a Go snippet but couldn't specify imports. I was
thinking maybe you want to be able to write `ctx.Something()`, but I
just don't see how to make it work, so I made it a function of context,
which is probably the better idea anyway.
Additionally, I improved the documentation for both, and added tests for
those and several other config options that weren't completely tested.
Fixes#5.
Issue: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/5
## Test plan:
make check
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: dnerdy, aberkan, MiguelCastillo
Required Reviewers:
Approved By: dnerdy
Checks: ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Test (1.13), ✅ Lint, ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Test (1.13), ✅ Lint
Pull Request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/77
## Summary:
One sharp edge of the new `bindings` setting (when used for composite
types) is this: the (presumably struct) type to which you're binding
may expect to have particular fields, but it's GraphQL so you could have
requested some other set of fields. Now, if you ask us, we check.
Specifically, I've added a new setting under the `bindings` items, which
says: everywhere we query this must select these fields. (Or use its
own inline `# @genqlient(bind: ...)`.) It must select exactly those
fields, in order, no more, no less. This was fairly easy to implement;
actually comparing the selections was surprisingly much code but it's
all pretty straightforward.
## Test plan:
make check
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: dnerdy, 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, ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Test (1.13), ✅ Lint
Pull request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/70
## Summary:
We had this setting called "scalars", which said: bind this GraphQL type
to this Go type, rather than the one you would normally use. It's
called that because it's most useful for custom scalars, where "the one
you would normally use" is "error: unknown scalar". But nothing ever
stopped you from using it for a non-scalar type. I was planning on
removing this functionality, because it's sort of a rough edge, but a
discussion with Craig found some good use cases, so instead, in this
commit, I document it better and add some slightly nicer ways to specify
it.
Specifically, here are a few potential non-scalar use cases:
- bind a GraphQL enum to a nonstandard type (or even `string`)
- bind an input type to some type that has exactly the fields you want;
this acts as a sort of workaround for issues #14 and #44
- bind an object type to your own struct, so as to add methods to it
(this is the use case Craig raised)
- bind an object type to your own struct, so as to share it between
multiple queries (I believe named fragments will address this case
better, but it doesn't hurt to have options)
- bind a GraphQL list type to a non-slice type in Go (presumably one
with an UnmarshalJSON method), or any other different structure
The latter three cases still have the sharp edge I was originally
worried about, which is that nothing guarantees that the fields you
request in the query are the ones the type expects to get. But I think
it's worth having the option, with appropriate disclaimers.
The main change to help support that better is that you can now specify
the type inline in the query, as an alternative to specifying it in the
config file; this means you might map a given object to a given struct,
but only in some cases, and when you do you have a chance to look at the
list of fields you're requesting.
Additionally, I renamed the config field from "scalars" to "bindings"
(but mentioned it in a few places where you might go looking for how to
map scalars, most importantly the error message you get for an unknown
(custom) scalar). While I was making a breaking change, I also changed
it to be a `map[string]<struct>` instead of a `map[string]string`,
because I expect to add more fields soon, e.g. to handle issue #38.
Finally, since the feature is now intended/documented, I added some
tests, although it's honestly quite simple on the genqlient side.
## Test plan:
make tesc
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: csilvers, aberkan, dnerdy, MiguelCastillo
Required Reviewers:
Approved by: csilvers
Checks: ⌛ Test (1.17), ⌛ Test (1.16), ⌛ Test (1.15), ⌛ Test (1.14), ⌛ Test (1.13), ⌛ Lint, ⌛ Test (1.17), ⌛ Test (1.16), ⌛ Test (1.15), ⌛ Test (1.14), ⌛ Test (1.13), ⌛ Lint
Pull request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/69
## Summary:
In this commit I begin the journey to add the long-awaited support for
interfaces (part of #8). Well, it's not the beginning: I already had
some half-written broken code around. But it's the first fully
functional support, and especially, the first *tested* support; it's
probably best to review the nontrivially-changed code as if it were new.
Conceptually, the code so far is pretty simple: we generate an interface
type, and the implementations. (That code is in fact mostly unchanged.)
The complexity comes in because encoding/json doesn't know how to
unmarshal that. So we have to add an UnmarshalJSON method, which
actually has to be on the types with interface-type fields, that knows
how. I factored it into two methods, such that that UnmarshalJSON
method is just glue, and then there's a separate function, corresponding
to each interface-type, that actually does all the work. (If only one
could just write it as an actual method!) The method uses the same
trick suggested to me by a few others in another context to deserialize
all but one field, then handle that field specially, which is discussed
in the code.
This still has some limitations, which will be lifted in future commits:
- it doesn't allow for list-of-interface fields
- it requires that you manually ask for `__typename`
- it doesn't support fragments, i.e. you can only query for interface
fields, not concrete-type-specific ones
But it works, even in integration tests, which is progress!
As a part of this, I added a proper config option for the "allow broken
features" flag, since I need to be able to set it from the integration
tests which are in a separate package (and actually shell out via `go
generate`). I also renamed what was to be the first case
(InterfaceNoFragments), and replaced it with a further-simplified
version (avoiding list-of-interface fields.
[1] https://github.com/benjaminjkraft/notes/blob/master/go-json-interfaces.md
Issue: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/8
## Test plan:
make tesc
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, ✅ Test (1.17), ⌛ Test (1.16), ⌛ Test (1.15), ⌛ Test (1.14), ⌛ Test (1.13), ✅ Lint
Pull request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/52
## Summary:
As Mark pointed out in a review where I realized that the *example* had
a bogus config key (which I hadn't noticed earlier because it was just
using the default value), we should probably do a strict-unmarshal;
there's no reason you should have random extra keys in your config and
if you do it's probably a mistake. (Or maybe you're running a too-old
version of genqlient for your codebase, which you probably also want to
know.) Now we do.
## Test plan:
- `make check`
- in webapp, `go mod edit -replace github.com/Khan/genqlient=../genqlient`
then `make genqlient` produces no diffs (except go.mod/go.sum).
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: dnerdy, 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, ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Test (1.13), ✅ Lint
Pull request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/55
