The Swiftest way to GraphQL

• Features
• Usage
• Contributing
• License

Features

• ⚡️ Code Generation
• 🔨 Query Builder
• ⛑ Type safe Mapping
• 🆒 Type safe JSON
• 🐙 Threading
• 🌐 Network Library
• 🔮 Network Library Agnostic
• 🥓 Batched Queries

AutoGraph is a Swift client framework for making requests using GraphQL and mapping the responses to strongly typed models. Models may be represented by any Decodable type. AutoGraph relies heavily on Swift's type safety to drive it, leading to safer, compile time checked code.

Requirements

Swift 5.0

• Swift 5.0 pre Decodable - use version 0.8.0
• Swift 4.2+ - use version 0.7.0.
• Swift 4.1.2 - use version 0.5.1.

Platforms

• iOS 8.0+
• tvOS
• watchOS
• macOS
• Linux

Installation

CocoaPods

platform :ios, '8.0'
use_frameworks!

pod 'AutoGraph'

Swift Package Manager (SPM)

dependencies: [
.package(url: "https://github.com/remind101/AutoGraph.git", .upToNextMinor(from: "0.9.0"))
]

Code Generation

Code generation is in an early-alpha stage. If you're interested in testing it please open an inquiry.

Databases

Update

Previously this project would map into any arbitrary database directly via a database mapping library. In practice we've found that mapping to pure structs through Codable is simpler and enables more flexibility when combined with code generation. If you wish to still map directly to a database in the old style please use version 0.8.0. Going forward we are internally exploring different methods of code generation that enable flexible, code generated database caching behind the scenes. We hope to open source these efforts in the future, stay tuned.

Query Builder

AutoGraph includes a GraphQL query builder to construct queries in a type safe manner. However, using the query builder is not required; any object which inherits GraphQLQuery can act as a query. String inherits this by default.

Query Example

Raw GraphQL         AutoGraph
-----------         ---------
query MyCoolQuery {         AutoGraphQL.Operation(type: .query, name: "MyCoolQuery", fields: [
  user {                        Object(name: "user", fields: [
    favorite_authors {              Object(name: "favorite_authors", fields: [,
      uuid                              "uuid",
      name                              "name"
    }                               ]),
    uuid                            "uuid",
    signature                       "signature"
  }                             ])
}

Mutation Example

Raw GraphQL
-----------
mutation MyCoolMutation {
  updateFavoriteAuthor(uuid: "long_id", input: { name: "My Cool Name" })
  {
    favorite_author {
      uuid
      name
    }
  }
}

AutoGraph
---------
AutoGraphQL.Operation(type: .mutation, name: "MyCoolMutation", fields: [
                            Object(
                            name: "updateFavoriteAuthor",
                            arguments: [ // Continues "updateFavoriteAuthor".
                                "uuid" : "long_id",
                                "input" : [
                                   "name" : "My Cool Class"
                                ]
                            ],
                            fields: [
                                Object(
                                name: "favorite_author",
                                fields: [
                                    "uuid",
                                    "name"
                                    ])
                                ]
                        ])

Supports

• Query Document
• Operations
• Mutations
• Selection Sets
• Fields
• Arguments
• Aliases
• Variables
• Input Values
  • List Values
  • Input Object Values
• Fragments
  • Fragment Spread
  • Fragment Definition
• Inline Fragments
• Directives

Decodable for type safe Models

AutoGraph relies entirely on Decodable for mapping GraphQL JSON responses to data models. It's as easy as conforming the model to Decodable!

JSONValue for type safe JSON

Behind the scenes AutoGraph uses JSONValue for type safe JSON. Feel free to import it for your own needs.

Threading

AutoGraph performs all network requests and mapping off of the main thread. Since a Request will eventually return whole models back to the caller on the main thread, it's important to consider thread safety with the model types being used. For this reason, using immutable struct types as models is recommended.

Network Library

AutoGraph currently relies on Alamofire for networking. However this isn't a hard requirement. Pull requests for this are encouraged!

Usage:

Request Protocol

1. Create a class that conforms to the Request protocol. You can also extend an existing class to conform to this protocol. Request is a base protocol used for GraphQL requests sent through AutoGraph. It provides the following parameters.
   1. queryDocument - The query being sent. You may use the Query Builder or a String.
   2. variables - The variables to be sent with the query. A Dictionary is accepted.
   3. rootKeyPath - Defines where to start mapping data from. Empty string ("") will map from the root of the JSON.
   4. An associatedtype SerializedObject: Decodable must be provided to tell AutoGraph what data model to decode to.
   5. A number of methods to inform the Request of its point in the life cycle.

class FilmRequest: Request {
    /*
     query film {
        film(id: "ZmlsbXM6MQ==") {
            id
            title
            episodeID
            director
            openingCrawl
        }
     }
     */
    
    let query = Operation(type: .query,
                          name: "film",
                          fields: [
                            Object(name: "film",
                                   alias: nil,
                                   arguments: ["id" : "ZmlsbXM6MQ=="],
                                   fields: [
                                    "id",  // May use string literal or Scalar.
                                    Scalar(name: "title", alias: nil),
                                    Scalar(name: "episodeID", alias: nil),
                                    Scalar(name: "director", alias: nil),
                                    Scalar(name: "openingCrawl", alias: nil)])
                            ])
    
    let variables: [AnyHashable : Any]? = nil

    let rootKeyPath: String = "data.film"

    public func willSend() throws { }
    public func didFinishRequest(response: HTTPURLResponse?, json: JSONValue) throws { }
    public func didFinish(result: Result<Film, Error>) throws { }
}

Sending

Swift

1. Call send on AutoGraph
   1. autoGraph.send(request, completion: { [weak self] result in ... }
2. Handle the response
   1. result is a generic Result<SerializedObject, Error> enum with success and failure cases.

Objective-C

Sending via Objective-C isn't directly possible because of AutoGraph's use of associatedtype and generics. It is possible to build a bridge(s) from Swift into Objective-C to send requests.

Contributing

• Open an issue if you run into any problems.

Pull Requests are welcome!

• Open an issue describing the feature add or problem being solved. An admin will respond ASAP to discuss the addition.
• You may begin working immediately if you so please, by adding an issue it helps inform others of what is already being worked on and facilitates discussion.
• Fork the project and submit a pull request. Please include tests for new code and an explanation of the problem being solved. An admin will review your code and approve it before merging.
• Keep LinuxTests up-to-date swift test --generate-linuxmain
• If you see an error like this while building from the command line could not build Objective-C module try prepending commands with xcrun -sdk macosx

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2017-Present Remind101

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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