GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by dschafer » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 10:17 PM UTC

GraphQL: A data query language
code.facebook.com

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by graffitici » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 10:40 PM UTC

Want the specification for graphql already released? Are these just the official announcements, after the technical previews?

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by grandalf » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 10:43 PM UTC

This looks cool but I've grown to really like Cypher. Anyone know if graphql is similarly expressive?

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by hokkos » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 10:46 PM UTC

With what DB is there implementations ? It seems for now most of the implementations are in memory. The postgres direct sql seems dead, there is only a javascript mongo mongoose one it seems.

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by thomasahle » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 10:57 PM UTC

Are there still problems with GET requests not allowing very much data in the request? Will I have to send this as a POST, or is that all 200x?

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by thomasahle » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:00 PM UTC

grandalf wrote: post #3

This looks cool but I've grown to really like Cypher. Anyone know if graphql is similarly expressive?

Cypher looks a lot like a form of SQL? At least if you are refering to this one http://neo4j.com/developer/cypher-query-language/ It seems an entirely different beast. Not like something you'd want clients to have access to in a public api?

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by aaroninsf » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:19 PM UTC

Why mirror the structure, but not syntactic details, of JSON (or YML) in the pretty printing?

It's true that we've passed peak colon as a culture, and need to start reimagining life in a post-colonial way, but...

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by paulhodge » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:22 PM UTC

thomasahle wrote: post #5

Are there still problems with GET requests not allowing very much data in the request? Will I have to send this as a POST, or is that all 200x?

Are you talking about the size limit (of about 2000 chars) on url strings? That's not a GraphQL thing, that's a limit imposed by certain browsers. If your request data might be bigger then it needs to be in a POST.

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by Geee » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:32 PM UTC

How about optimistic over-fetching? On Facebook it's very annoying to wait earlier comments to load when they are fetched like 10 at a time, and there's 5 second latency on every request. Why not fetch everything with a single request (even when they aren't displayed in the current view)?

Re: GraphQL: A data query language

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Post by rattray » Mon, Sep 14, 2015, 11:34 PM UTC

I keep hearing people say things along the lines of, "Relay looks great, but I don't want to store my data in a graph". My impression is that GraphQL has nothing to do with graphs, really - it's a bit more like SchemaQL if anything. Could someone from the facebook team clarify about the name?