Building an open source GraphQL Kotlin library is fun Anyone

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Building an open source GraphQL Kotlin library is fun Anyone interested in joining smile I know there is one already but you know diversity And fun slightly smiling face

Dominaezzz · Answer

I ve been considering building a multiplatform one mostly around the codegen side for the client Haven t really use GraphQL before

Marc Knaup · Answer

Mine is multiplatform and supposed to cover almost everything that the JS reference implementation does

Dominaezzz · Answer

But I d be interested in contributing if you start something

Marc Knaup · Answer

No codegen yet though Would love to see a compiler plugin at some point For client amp server

Marc Knaup · Answer

<https github com fluidsonic fluid graphql> Still messy as everything is work in progress and API far from final Even the TODO is outdated smile

Dominaezzz · Answer

Ha Just how I like it grin

Marc Knaup · Answer

joy

Dominaezzz · Answer

Looks like you have a parser so far right To parse server schemas

Marc Knaup · Answer

yes parses queries and schemas

Marc Knaup · Answer

just no extensions yet

Dominaezzz · Answer

Nice that should be enough to actually generate client side stuff

Marc Knaup · Answer

You want to generate Kotlin code from server schema

Marc Knaup · Answer

I guess simple generation is easy with KotlinPoet Compiler plugin would be nicer but also far more difficult

Dominaezzz · Answer

Yeah like data classes and stuff

Marc Knaup · Answer

I always wonder what is nicer to have Generated types for each schema only Generated types for each query to a schema because fields can be absent and you may not want to make ALL fields nullable for that reason In the second case they could share a common interface

Dominaezzz · Answer

Hmm that s a good point Can make it a configuration with reasonable defaults

Marc Knaup · Answer

True it s also possible to offer both and let the user decide

mbonnin · Answer

Hi just in case `apollo android` has an issue open to support native and multiplatform <https github com apollographql apollo android issues 1455>

mbonnin · Answer

It might not be that far actually IIRC one of the biggest JVM dependency was okhttp but the generated models would still be usable without the runtime

Marc Knaup · Answer

I guess Apollo does way more than GraphQL if it needs anything related to HTTP slightly smiling face

mbonnin · Answer

Mostly for subscriptions and cache support but most of the codegen is usable without the HTTP parts

mbonnin · Answer

What would a compiler plugin bring compared to plain codegen

Marc Knaup · Answer

Changes to GraphQL document schema automatically change code and vice versa if needed It would be part of the normal compilation rather than relying on command line tools or Gradle integration

wakingrufus · Answer

< Dariusz Kuc> works on

Marc Knaup · Answer

I ve seen that but it s almost completely different from what I want to achieve Most importantly no reflection no automatic schema generation from Kotlin classes at least at runtime maybe through a compiler plugin And they re focused on the server I want to have everything around GraphQL in my library not the client server logic around it ` graphql` file parsing requests amp schemas ` graphql` file generation Kotlin DSL for creating schemas and requests request execution amp validation independent of the environment tools for working with GraphQL ASTs

Dariusz Kuc · Answer

cool project

Dariusz Kuc · Answer

just an fyi `graphql kotlin client` generates the type safe client based on the graphql query and target schema is WIP and should be available in 2 0 0 release no tentative date yet

Dariusz Kuc · Answer

as for the kotlin native query execution gt that is something that we want to tackle eventually in `graphql kotlin` as well currently it relies on `graphql java` but there is no ETA on this

Dariusz Kuc · Answer

also take a look at <https github com aPureBase KGraphQL>