:wave: Sorry this might be a silly one, but Im trying to move to variant services for apollo kotlin...

# apollo-kotlin

[Marco Pierucci]

👋 Sorry this might be a silly one, but Im trying to move to variant services for apollo kotlin. Im following the doc
But Im getting a Could not set unknown property 'nameSuffix' for extension 'apollo' 🤔

[Marco Pierucci]

createAllAndroidVariantServices(sourceFolder = ".", nameSuffix = "") {
        
        packageName.set("package-here")
        schemaFile.set(file("src/main/graphql/core/schema.json"))
        mapScalar("DateTime", "org.threeten.bp.ZonedDateTime")
        mapScalar("Date", "org.threeten.bp.LocalDate")
        mapScalar("UUID", "kotlin.String")
        generateAsInternal.set(true)

}

[mbonnin]

Interesting. Are you using Groovy build scripts by any chance? The syntax for passing named parameters might be different

[mbonnin]

More generally, may I ask if you really need one codegen per variant? I'm thinking of deprecating the createAllAndroidVariantServices function. It was put there for compat with 2.x mainly but it creates a lot of tasks while most of the times, you usually want debug vs release or so

[mbonnin]

(Even that could be argued actually, these days I'd rather use branches to test agains pre-preod endpoints)

[Marco Pierucci]

Yeah its a groovy build.gradle file. But the same syntax works with my previous implementation

apollo {
    
    packageName.set("energy.octopus.fieldservices.library.network.datasource.graphql")
    mapScalar("DateTime", "org.threeten.bp.ZonedDateTime")
    mapScalar("Date", "org.threeten.bp.LocalDate")
    mapScalar("UUID", "kotlin.String")
    generateAsInternal.set(true)

    schemaFile.set(file("src/main/graphql/core/schema.json"))
    srcDir(file("src/main/graphql"))

}

[Marco Pierucci]

as per the variants configuraiton we are going to be releasing different country/variants apps and that seemed liek the way to go

[Marco Pierucci]

( yes different countries will have different schemas)

[mbonnin]

createAllAndroidVariantServices(sourceFolder = ".", nameSuffix = "")

I'd say (but not 100% sure) this doesn't work in Groovy

[mbonnin]

different countries will have different schemas

Does that mean they have different queries too ? 👀

[Marco Pierucci]

most likely yeah 😬

[mbonnin]

Gotcha 👍

[mbonnin]

FWIW, variants is more than countries:
• ukDebug
• ukRelease
• usDebug
• usRelease
• frDebug
• frRelease
• and then all the test variants...

[mbonnin]

So this means you're running a different codegen for each variant even if some of them might have the same GraphQL files (ukDebug and ukRelease for an example)

[Marco Pierucci]

yeah you are right on that one

[Marco Pierucci]

If you have many variants and don't need to configure an Apollo Service for each one of them, it may be simpler to declare the Services manually, for instance:

Might as well try this

[Marco Pierucci]

And have per country services

[mbonnin]

It's 'cleaner'

[Marco Pierucci]

Gotcha, appreciated !

[mbonnin]

And might save you a bit of build time esp in CI where you build several variants