Support for Content-Type: application/graphql

[dominikbrandon]

Do you plan on adding support for Content-Type: application/graphql header, like graphql-java-spring does? I find it more convenient in use with manually built requests. With JSON one needs to supply whole query in a single string, which can't be broken into lines. It's not very readable even for simple queries. What do you think?

Cheers!

[srinivasankavitha]

For manually building the requests - have you checked out out the GraphQL client functionality that can be used with codegen? It provides a query builder API that you can use to construct your query and serialize into a string. The Type-safe Query API section described how to set that up.
https://netflix.github.io/dgs/advanced/java-client/

[paulbakker]

Is the difference that the query, operation name, etc., are all provided a separate request parameters? Is that for GET requests only? I’m not familiar with application/GraphQL so I’m trying to understand what it is and why it’s useful.

Also, are there commonly used clients that support this?

[dominikbrandon]

Thanks guys for your input. My description could have misled you - what I meant by manually built requests was this kind of manual requests:

POST http://localhost:8080/graphql
Content-Type: application/json

{
  "query": "{ allBooks { title, id } }"
}

I use this kind of raw HTTP requests with IntelliJ, which has nice features for it (in case you've missed it: https://www.jetbrains.com/help/idea/http-client-in-product-code-editor.html).

I don't know if there are any clients supporting this, it's still new to me. My point is: why write requests like this when you can achieve the same thing that way.

[paulbakker]

I wasn't familiar with the support for application/graphql in Intellij, but that looks great. I think it would be good to support this in DGS as well.

[paulbakker]

Added an issue for this new feature: #43

[dominikbrandon]

Great, thanks!

[paulbakker]

This is now supported! See PR #166 for context

[dominikbrandon]

I've checked this out and it works like a charm, thank you!