RE: GraphQL, YAJL, IBMi?

I've heard .net can run on the IBMi (not sure why you'd want to though, could instead use a commodity windows server), and there's a heavily used .NET GraphQL library out there to make interacting with GraphQL endpoints easy:

https://github.com/graphql-dotnet/graphql-dotnet

Look at the # of downloads for those libraries, pretty heavy usage from those numbers, 6.7 million downloads for the root GraphQL library.

Build it in .NET Core and you can run on any OS....

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Might want to pose the question on the OS list Brad - or on Ryver. Maybe someone has used Typescript to produce the query data.


Jon

On Oct 19, 2021, at 11:13 AM, Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Does it work to build GraphQL and then insert that into JSON? Example:

{
"query": "query Search($input: mySearch!) {
search {
transactions(input: $input, first: 20) {
pageInfo {
hasNextPage
startCursor
endCursor
},
edges {
node {
id
status
amount {
value
currencyIsoCode
}
}
cursor
}
}
}
}"

Notice the data inside the "query" JSON object looks like JSON, but
it's not... It's GraphQL.

That's why I think it's silly to change JSON just enough to make tons
more work.. why not just use straight JSON the whole way through?
What is the advantage to GraphQL?

On Tue, Oct 19, 2021 at 10:03 AM Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have you considered using DATA-GEN to build it Brad? You could use
Barbara's example or Scott's YAJLDTAGEN as a foundation. More
versatile that stringing the stuff out.


Jon Paris

On Oct 19, 2021, at 10:48 AM, Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Well, of course as things go in the IT world these days, we can't
leave well enough alone.

Anyhow, I'm working on a project that uses GraphQL. I was thinking
at first "ok, cool... its basically JSON".

No, it's not. It's JSON without delimiters, basically. Why change
a

good

thing when JSON would work just fine?

Anyhow, at this point I only need to build GraphQL and put it in
JSON for web service requests (and not parse it). But, I'm curious
if anyone else is dealing with it, or if YAJL has options for this
(I didn't see any),

or

what other methods people are using.

It looks like I just need to build the GraphQL data, then I could
use

YAJL

to put that into a JSON variable. But if I'm doing that, why even
use

YAJL

just to wrap the GraphQL in JSON? (ie, just use literals).

Yes, I think it's silly... I'd still love to hear why we can't use
JSON instead of GraphQL.. I mean, I've seen JSON inside of JSON
(which is just as silly).

Job security maybe? :)

</Getting old man rant>

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