Client: autogenerate view classes from query

[benwaffle]

It would be useful to write the graphql query as a string and generate the view classes

val query = gql"""
{
  character("Amos Burton") {
    name
    nicknames
    origin
  }
}
"""

// autogenerate this
case class CharacterView(name: String, nickname: List[String], origin: Origin)
case class QueryResponse(character: List[CharacterView])

[viclovsky]

Do you have any plan to implement the feature? Anyway, is there any workaround how to generate view classes?

[ghostdogpr]

I think that would require some macros, I have no knowledge about that (and not really willing to learn now since Scala 3 will make it obsolete :D), but open to contributions.

[askmrsinh]

@viclovsky @benwaffle I am working on something like this for a project (using macros). Right now I am able to generate case classes for simple queries but I hope to cover more complex selections in the near future. If you have any particular need/suggestion please feel free to share.

[ghostdogpr]

FYI it is now possible to generate view classes when running the code gen (it's slightly different from your example though: it generates view classes with all fields (not based on any query).