GraphQL is a query language created in 2012 by Lee Byron.
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GraphQL is a data query language developed internally by Facebook in 2012 before being publicly released in 2015. It provides an alternative to REST and ad-hoc webservice architectures.. It allows clients to define the structure of the data required, and exactly the same structure of the data is returned from the server. Read more on Wikipedia...
{
"Hello World"
}# Copyright (c) 2015, Facebook, Inc.
# All rights reserved.
#
# This source code is licensed under the BSD-style license found in the
# LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree. An additional grant
# of patent rights can be found in the PATENTS file in the same directory.
schema {
query: QueryType
mutation: MutationType
}
type Foo implements Bar {
one: Type
two(argument: InputType!): Type
three(argument: InputType, other: String): Int
four(argument: String = "string"): String
five(argument: [String] = ["string", "string"]): String
six(argument: InputType = {key: "value"}): Type
}
interface Bar {
one: Type
four(argument: String = "string"): String
}
union Feed = Story | Article | Advert
scalar CustomScalar
enum Site {
DESKTOP
MOBILE
}
input InputType {
key: String!
answer: Int = 42
}
extend type Foo {
seven(argument: [String]): Type
}
directive @skip(if: Boolean!) on FIELD | FRAGMENT_SPREAD | INLINE_FRAGMENT
directive @include(if: Boolean!)
on FIELD
| FRAGMENT_SPREAD
| INLINE_FRAGMENT
null true false query mutation subscription extend schema directive scalar type interface union enum input implements fragment on| Feature | Supported | Token | Example |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comments | ✓ | # A comment |
|
| Line Comments | ✓ | # | # A comment |
| hasIds | ✓ | # The ID scalar type represents a unique identifier, often used to refetch an object or as the key for a cache. The ID type is serialized in the same way as a String; however, defining it as an ID signifies that it is not intended to be human‐readable.
query {
hero {
name
}
droid(id: "2000") {
name
}
} |
|
| Lists | ✓ | ||
| Union Types | ✓ | union SearchResult = Human | Droid | Starship |
|
| Strings | ✓ | " | |
| Integers | ✓ | ||
| Interfaces | ✓ | interface Character {
id: ID!
name: String!
friends: [Character]
appearsIn: [Episode]!
}
type Human implements Character {
id: ID!
name: String!
friends: [Character]
appearsIn: [Episode]!
starships: [Starship]
totalCredits: Int
}
type Droid implements Character {
id: ID!
name: String!
friends: [Character]
appearsIn: [Episode]!
primaryFunction: String
} |
|
| Floats | ✓ | ||
| Enums | ✓ | enum Episode {
NEWHOPE
EMPIRE
JEDI
} |
|
| Booleans | ✓ | true false | |
| Case Insensitive Identifiers | X | ||
| Semantic Indentation | X |