Absinthe

GraphQL implementation for Elixir.

Goals:

Complete implementation of the GraphQL Working Draft, dated April 2016.
An idiomatic, readable, and comfortable API for Elixir developers
Detailed error messages and documentation
A focus on robustness and production-level performance

Please see the website at http://absinthe-graphql.org.

Features

Parser
- All AST types
- Fragments and type conditions
- Line number reporting
- ~~Column number reporting~~ (Not currently available due to Leex tokenizer constraint)
Schema definition
- All types (eg, Object, Input Object, Enum, Union, Interface, Scalar)
- Circular type references
- Support for custom scalars
- Support for custom directives
- Field, argument, and enum value deprecation
- Compile-time schema validation
Introspection, compatible with GraphiQL
Query execution
- General
- Named fragments, inline fragments, and fragment spreads with type conditions
- @skip and @include directives
- Adapter mechanism to support conversion between camelCase query documents and snake_cased schema definition.
Client support
- Generation of JSON and GraphQL (IDL) introspection documents for use by client frameworks

Installation

Install from Hex.pm:

def deps do
  [{:absinthe, "~> 1.1.0"}]
end

Add it to your applications configuration in mix.exs, too:

def application do
  [applications: [:absinthe]]
end

Note: Absinthe requires Elixir 1.2 or higher.

Upgrading

See CHANGELOG for upgrade steps between versions.

Documentation

For the tutorial, guides, and general information about Absinthe-related projects, see http://absinthe-graphql.org.
Links to the API documentation are available in the project list.

Mix Tasks

Absinthe includes a number of useful Mix tasks for extracting schema metadata.

Run mix help in your project and look for tasks starting with absinthe.

Roadmap

See the Roadmap on absinthe-graphql.org.

Related Projects

See the Project List on absinthe-graphql.org.

License

BSD License

Parser derived from GraphQL Elixir, Copyright (c) Josh Price https://github.com/graphql-elixir/graphql-elixir

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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