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[FEATURE]: @custom directive to make batch requests to services that accept them
Use case
A custom query may be invoked in a chatty way for large GraphQL requests. E.g.
type User { username: String! @id ... posts: [Post] @custom(http: { url: "https://my.api.com/person/$username/posts", method: GET }) }
and a query queryUser (first: 10) { posts }
will make 10 requests, one for each username of the first 10 users. This could sometimes be served by a single request that accepts an array of 10 usernames (for apis that accept that).
Links to Discuss, RFC or previous Issues and PRs
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Links to examples and research
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Current state
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Solution proposal
Each API will be different in how it accepts a batch of data, so some expression syntax will be needed for this to work.
batchUrl: https://my.api.com/person/posts?usernames=[$username] // where $username is expanded to an array of all usernames
It would be ideal to specify how to do this. One way would be to interpret "batchUrl" as a pre-fetch syntax that defines how to get all data and put it in a map keyed by the fetch parameter, which is then used as needed in building the GraphQL result.
It is unclear the best way to accomplish this right now.
Additional Information
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