Tag: schema

GraphQL VS Code Extension Review && Simple Schema Build

Today I checked out the GraphQL extension – “VSCode GraphQL” – for Visual Studio Code. It’s available on the Marketplace @ VSCode GraphQL and of course you can navigate to plugging in VS Code and install it just like this.

Installing the Extension
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Getting an Existing GraphQL `schema.graphql` of Your API

Let’s say you’ve built out your GraphQL API. Now let’s say you want a schema.graphql file but for some reason you don’t have your repo or for some reason it’s not immediately available. What to do? Here are two tools to get a quick schema of your GraphQL API by pointing them at your API and letting them introspect against it!

Prerequisite

For both of these you’ll need to have NPM installed, which I’ll just assume you do if you’re dealing with GraphQL. If you don’t, head on out and get NPM and Node.js installed for good measure, and per my suggestion do yourself a favor and pick a version manager. I generally use nvm, check out details on install NVM here.

graphqurl

Install with the following command.

npm install -g graphqurl
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Apollo GraphQL Federation Schema Validation Error [Solved!]

This is the error I’ve bumped into while working through the example for Apollo’s GraphQL Federation when setting up a subgraph API. I’ve tried several things to resolve this error including changing versions for the GraphQL library in use but that hasn’t fixed it. I’ve also got this now on MacOS, Linux, and Windows so it isn’t something odd about the environment.

 ~/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/ [main] node index.js
/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/apollo-graphql/lib/schema/buildSchemaFromSDL.js:50
        throw new GraphQLSchemaValidationError_1.GraphQLSchemaValidationError(errors);
        ^

GraphQLSchemaValidationError: Unknown directive "@entity".
    at buildSchemaFromSDL (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/apollo-graphql/lib/schema/buildSchemaFromSDL.js:50:15)
    at buildSubgraphSchema (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/@apollo/subgraph/dist/buildSubgraphSchema.js:26:58)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/index.js:29:11)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1095:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1124:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:816:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (node:internal/modules/run_main:79:12)
    at node:internal/main/run_main_module:17:47 {
  errors: [
    GraphQLError [Object]: Unknown directive "@entity".
        at Object.Directive (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/graphql/validation/rules/KnownDirectivesRule.js:56:29)
        at Object.enter (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/graphql/language/visitor.js:323:29)
        at visit (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/graphql/language/visitor.js:243:26)
        at Object.validateSDL (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/graphql/validation/validate.js:92:22)
        at buildSchemaFromSDL (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/apollo-graphql/lib/schema/buildSchemaFromSDL.js:48:31)
        at buildSubgraphSchema (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/node_modules/@apollo/subgraph/dist/buildSubgraphSchema.js:26:58)
        at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/adronhall/Codez/AppoloFederationCore-v2/index.js:29:11)
        at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1095:14)
        at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1124:10)
        at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:975:32)
  ]
}
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Beyond CRUD n’ Cruft Data-Modeling

I dig through a lot of internet results and blog entries that show CRUD data modeling all the time. A lot of these blog entries and documentation are pretty solid. Unfortunately, rarely do we end up with data that is accurately or precisely modeled the way it ought to be or the way we would ideally use it. In this post I’m going to take some sample elements of data and model it out for various uses. Then reconstitute that data into different structures for various uses within microservices, loading, reading, both in normalized form and denormalized form.

The Domain: Railroad Systems & Services

The domain I chose for this particular example is the entire global spectrum of rail services. Imagine if you would a system that can track all the trains in the world, or even just the trains in a particular area of the world, like the United States. In the United States the trains can be broken down into logical structures of data for various things like freight trains and passenger trains. Trains operated under a particular operator like Amtrak, Union Pacific, or Norfolk Southern, and their respective consists that the train is made up of. Let’s get into some particular word definitions to fully detail this domain. Continue reading “Beyond CRUD n’ Cruft Data-Modeling” →