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GraphQL binding spec

Detailed documentation on the GraphQL binding component

Component format

To setup GraphQL binding create a component of type bindings.graphql. See this guide on how to create and apply a binding configuration. To separate normal config settings (e.g. endpoint) from headers, “header:” is used a prefix on the header names.

apiVersion: dapr.io/v1alpha1
kind: Component
metadata:
  name: example.bindings.graphql
spec:
  type: bindings.graphql
  version: v1
  metadata:
    - name: endpoint
      value: "http://localhost:8080/v1/graphql"
    - name: header:x-hasura-access-key
      value: "adminkey"
    - name: header:Cache-Control
      value: "no-cache"

Spec metadata fields

Field Required Binding support Details Example
endpoint Y Output GraphQL endpoint string See here for more details "http://localhost:4000/graphql/graphql"
header:[HEADERKEY] N Output GraphQL header. Specify the header key in the name, and the header value in the value. "no-cache" (see above)
variable:[VARIABLEKEY] N Output GraphQL query variable. Specify the variable name in the name, and the variable value in the value. "123" (see below)

Endpoint and Header format

The GraphQL binding uses GraphQL client internally.

Binding support

This component supports output binding with the following operations:

  • query
  • mutation

query

The query operation is used for query statements, which returns the metadata along with data in a form of an array of row values.

Request

in := &dapr.InvokeBindingRequest{
Name:      "example.bindings.graphql",
Operation: "query",
Metadata: map[string]string{ "query": `query { users { name } }`},
}

To use a query that requires query variables, add a key-value pair to the metadata map, wherein every key corresponding to a query variable is the variable name prefixed with variable:

in := &dapr.InvokeBindingRequest{
Name: "example.bindings.graphql",
Operation: "query",
Metadata: map[string]string{ 
  "query": `query HeroNameAndFriends($episode: string!) { hero(episode: $episode) { name } }`,
  "variable:episode": "JEDI",
}