GraphQL Psr7 Middleware

This is a graphql middleware implementation, based on Youshido/GraphQL graphql pure php implementation.

Using middleware

use GraphQLMiddleware\Execution\Processor;
use App\GraphQL\MySchema;
use GraphQLMiddleware\GraphQLMiddleware;

...
...

//instantiate the graphql schema
$schema = new MySchema();

//get your container implementing container-interop
$container = get_your_container;

//init processor
$processor = new Processor($container, $schema);
$graphqlMiddleware = new GraphQLMiddleware($processor)

$app->pipe("/graphql", $graphqlMiddleware)

If your container support factories you can use those provided.

As an example if you use zend expressive you can take advantage of the configuration package provided using the configuration manager

$configManager = new ConfigManager([
    GraphQLMiddleware\ModuleConfig::class,
    new PhpFileProvider('config/autoload/{{,*.}global,{,*.}local}.php'),
]);

Interacting with the graphql middleware

For every request made to /graphql URI or containing Content-Type: application/graphql header. At moment only the GET and POST method are supported.

Factories

Schema\SchemaFactory Factory to instantiate the schema object from an array, class or from the container
Execution\ProcessorFactory Factory to instantiate the graphql processor, with the ContainerAwareInterface ability to let you write your resolver class with the ability to pull service directly from the container.
Resolver\ContainerAwareResoverFactory Factory to automatically inject the container inside you resolver class

Container aware fields

You can write your schema making the fields aware of the container, this way you can retrive a container reference directly from the field and pull from the container any deps you need to resolve the field logic.

Suppose we have a TodoField and we are implementing a mutation AddTodoField to store that todo in our backend


<?php

namespace App\GraphQL\Mutation\Todo;


use App\GraphQL\Type\TodoType;
use App\Service\TodoService;
use GraphQLMiddleware\Field\AbstractContainerAwareField;
use Youshido\GraphQL\Config\Field\FieldConfig;
use Youshido\GraphQL\Execution\ResolveInfo;
use Youshido\GraphQL\Type\ListType\ListType;
use Youshido\GraphQL\Type\NonNullType;
use Youshido\GraphQL\Type\Scalar\StringType;

class AddTodoField extends AbstractContainerAwareField
{
    public function build(FieldConfig $config)
    {
        $config->addArguments([
            'title' => new NonNullType(new StringType()),
            'tags' => new ListType(new StringType())
        ]);
    }

    public function resolve($value, array $args, ResolveInfo $info)
    {
        // pull our service from the db
        $todoService = $this->getContainer()->get(TodoService::class);
        // let the service do his job
        return $todoService->create($args['title']);
    }


    public function getType()
    {
        return new ListType(new TodoType());
    }

    public function getName()
    {
        return 'add';
    }
}

To retrive todos from our service, we can write a query field this way


namespace App\GraphQL\Query\Todo;


use App\GraphQL\Type\TodoType;
use App\Serivice\TodoService;
use GraphQLMiddleware\Field\AbstractContainerAwareField;
use Youshido\GraphQL\Execution\ResolveInfo;
use Youshido\GraphQL\Type\ListType\ListType;


class TodosField extends AbstractContainerAwareField
{
    public function getType()
    {
        return new ListType(new TodoType());
    }

    public function resolve($value, array $args, ResolveInfo $info)
    {
        /** @var $service TodoService */
        $service = $this->getContainer()->get(TodoService::class);
        return $service->findAll();
    }
}

Buisness logic Validation

GraphQL provides validation against the schema types, at the moment there is no clean path to follow to do application validation.

It's up to you to validate user data before they it your backend. Let's imagine that in our todo example, the title field must not contain whitespaces and must be shorter than 10 chars.

GraphQLMiddleware provides some facility to do application validation, directly in your type before the resolve method is actually called.

To do this you can implment GraphQLMiddleware\Validation\ValidatableInterface. This interface is already implemented in AbstractContainerAwareField.

Let's modifiy our mutation field AddTodoField to implement the validation requirements to the title field.

GraphQLMiddleware use respect/validation library to handle validation.

In order to modify our AddTodoField we must:

provide validation rules, implementig the ValidatableInterface::getValidationRules method

use Respect\Validation\Validator as v;

class AddTodoField extends AbstractContainerAwareField
{

    ...
    ...
    
    public function resolve($value, array $args, ResolveInfo $info)
    {
        // the $args array is validate based on the
        // validation rules provided by the getValidationRules method
        return $this->getContainer()->get(TodoResolver::class)->create($args['title']);
    }
    
    public function getValidationRules()
    {
        return [
            'title' => v::stringType()->alpha()->length(1,10)->noWhitespace()
        ];
    }
    
    ...
    ...

}

This way the processor, before actually call the resolve method, it call the validate method and only if everything goes well the resolve method is called.

The AbstractContainerAwareField provides a default implementation of the validate method. So you don't need to implement it but you need to provide only the validation rules.

Validation errors response

The server in case of validation errors provides usefull information about those errors. The actual implementation, push those information in the errors payload in this way

Someone think that the errors payload is meant for system errors like syntax errors but personally i think that is a good place to put informations on what's going on with the requests.

Using our todos example if we try to add a todo

mutation{
    add(title: "this is not @ very good title") {
        id
    }
}

The server response is

{
  "data": {
    "add": null
  },
  "errors": [
    {
      "message": "Bad Request. Validation failed.",
      "validation_errors": {
        "add": {
          "title": [
            "\"this is not @ very good title\" alphanumeric only allowed",
            "\"this is not @ very good title\" no withespace allowed"
          ]
        }
      },
      "code": 403
    }
  ]
}

In the errors payload we have the validation_errors information that give us usefull information about what's wrong with our request.