Hi, we're wondering if anyone knows of a good Grap...

# graphql

[dr.dreigh]

Hi, we're wondering if anyone knows of a good GraphQL client for calling graphql endpoints? Ideally would generate types from the schema and simplify argument/variable passing

[Dariusz Kuc]

I think the most popular one is https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android

[Dariusz Kuc]

ignore the name as it is not android specific

[Dariusz Kuc]

IMHO generated code is not that great (e.g. it would be nice to have some K data classes instead) but it is just a generated code

[dr.dreigh]

Thanks @Dariusz Kuc - does it need you to pull in the android plugin?

[dr.dreigh]

I think the kotlin data classes are experimental?

[Dariusz Kuc]

Oo thats new, didn't use it in a while

[dr.dreigh]

have you used it in a non android project?

[Dariusz Kuc]

you can either use apollo gradle plugin or open source maven plugin (use fork as original one is unsupported)

[Dariusz Kuc]

yes it works fine

[Dariusz Kuc]

in the end it just runs node module to download schema and generate the code

[Dariusz Kuc]

so technically you could just run npm directly (from a plugin)

[dr.dreigh]

oh I see, thanks!

[Dariusz Kuc]

looks like they still haven't fixed this though -> https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android/issues/1042

[Anand Elangovan]

Thanks Dariusz. Do you know if there is github link to the project which does not use the plugin, please?

[Dariusz Kuc]

you mean a project that use the plugin?

[Anand Elangovan]

a project which does not use the plugin and uses only data classes.

[Dariusz Kuc]

you have to generate those classes somehow

[Dariusz Kuc]

technically graphql request is just a POST with { "query": "<your query>", "variables": {}, "operationName": "someName" }

[Dariusz Kuc]

*or get with query params

[Dariusz Kuc]

so you could easily manually craft those requests from code

[Dariusz Kuc]

that being said

[Dariusz Kuc]

by using apollo plugin you are getting type safety as generated types are based on your schema

[Anand Elangovan]

Thanks Dariusz. We will give it a go.

[mbonnin]

Sorry just seeing this now. apollo-android works fine on non-android project, I've done that myself for a few projects. It does pull the android plugin in the buildscript classpath though. There's an issue open there for that and other plugin issue: https://github.com/apollographql/apollo-android/issues/817.

[mbonnin]

As for generated classes, they can now be generated in Kotlin with apollo.generateKotlinModels = true. IIRC, the generated code is using data classes

[mbonnin]

(which are not experimental anymore)