package opium-graphql

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Opium GraphQL

opium-graphql provides Opium handlers to serve GraphQL APIs.

Installation

To install opium-graphql, you can add it to your dune-project's package stanza:

(package
 (name my_app)
 (depends
  (ocaml
   (>= 4.08))
  opium
  opium-graphql))

And let Dune generate the Opam file for you. Or you can add it directly to your .opam file:

depends: [
  "opium"
  "opium-graphql"
]

Usage

Here's a sample application that serves a schema with a node user:

open Opium

module Schema = struct
  open Graphql_lwt

  type context = unit

  type user =
    { id : int
    ; name : string
    }

  let users = [ { id = 1; name = "Alice" }; { id = 2; name = "Bob" } ]

  let user : (context, user option) Graphql_lwt.Schema.typ =
    Schema.(
      obj "user" ~doc:"A user in the system" ~fields:(fun _ ->
          [ field
              "id"
              ~doc:"Unique user identifier"
              ~typ:(non_null int)
              ~args:Arg.[]
              ~resolve:(fun _info p -> p.id)
          ; field
              "name"
              ~typ:(non_null string)
              ~args:Arg.[]
              ~resolve:(fun _info p -> p.name)
          ]))
  ;;

  let schema =
    Graphql_lwt.Schema.(
      schema
        [ field
            "users"
            ~typ:(non_null (list (non_null user)))
            ~args:Arg.[]
            ~resolve:(fun _info () -> users)
        ])
  ;;
end

let graphql =
  let handler = Opium_graphql.make_handler ~make_context:(fun _req -> ()) Schema.schema in
  Opium.App.all "/" handler
;;

let graphiql =
  let handler = Opium_graphql.graphiql_handler ~graphql_endpoint:"/" in
  Opium.App.get "/graphiql" handler
;;

let _ =
  Logs.set_reporter (Logs_fmt.reporter ());
  Logs.set_level (Some Logs.Debug);
  App.empty |> graphql |> graphiql |> App.run_command
;;

The example provides two endpoints:

  • / that serves the actual GraphQL API
  • /graphiql that serves the GraphiQL tool

To test the API, you can go on the GraphiQL tool and run the following query:

query {
  users {
    name
  }
}

API documentation

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