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# Guide to Super Graph
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Get an instant high performance GraphQL API for Postgres. No code needed. GraphQL is automatically transformed into efficient database queries. Also Designed to integrate with your Rails apps.
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## Features
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- Works with Rails database schemas
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- Automatically learns schemas and relationships
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- Belongs-To, One-To-Many and Many-To-Many table relationships
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- Full text search and Aggregations
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- Rails Auth supported (Redis, Memcache, Cookie)
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- JWT tokens supported (Auth0, etc)
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- Join with remote REST APIs
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- Highly optimized and fast Postgres SQL queries
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- Support GraphQL queries and mutations
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- Configure with a simple config file
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- High performance GO codebase
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- Tiny docker image and low memory requirements
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- Database migrations tool
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- Write database seeding scripts in Javascript
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## Try the demo app
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```bash
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# download the Docker compose config for the demo
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curl -L -o demo.yml https://bit.ly/2mq05lW
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# setup the demo rails app & database and run it
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docker-compose -f demo.yml run rails_app rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
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# run the demo
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docker-compose -f demo.yml up
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# signin to the demo app (user1@demo.com / 123456)
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open http://localhost:3000
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# try the super graph web ui
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open http://localhost:8080
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```
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::: warning DEMO REQUIREMENTS
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This demo requires `docker` you can either install it using `brew` or from the
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docker website [https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/](https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/install/)
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:::
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#### Trying out GraphQL
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We currently fully support queries and mutations. Support for `subscriptions` is work in progress. For example the below GraphQL query would fetch two products that belong to the current user where the price is greater than 10.
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#### GQL Query
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```graphql
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query {
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users {
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id
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email
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picture : avatar
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password
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full_name
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products(limit: 2, where: { price: { gt: 10 } }) {
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id
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name
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description
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price
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}
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}
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}
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```
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In another example the below GraphQL mutation would insert a product into the database. The first part of the below example is the variable data and the second half is the GraphQL mutation. For mutations data has to always ben passed as a variable.
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```json
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{
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"data": {
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"name": "Art of Computer Programming",
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"description": "The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by computer scientist Donald Knuth",
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"price": 30.5
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}
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}
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```
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```graphql
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mutation {
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product(insert: $data) {
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id
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name
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}
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}
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```
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The above GraphQL query returns the JSON result below. It handles all
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kinds of complexity without you having to writing a line of code.
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For example there is a while greater than `gt` and a limit clause on a child field. And the `avatar` field is renamed to `picture`. The `password` field is blocked and not returned. Finally the relationship between the `users` table and the `products` table is auto discovered and used.
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#### JSON Result
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```json
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{
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"data": {
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"users": [
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{
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"id": 1,
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"email": "odilia@west.info",
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"picture": "https://robohash.org/simur.png?size=300x300",
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"full_name": "Edwin Orn",
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"products": [
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{
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"id": 16,
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"name": "Sierra Nevada Style Ale",
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"description": "Belgian Abbey, 92 IBU, 4.7%, 17.4°Blg",
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"price": 16.47
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},
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...
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]
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}
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]
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}
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}
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```
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#### Try with an authenticated user
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In development mode you can use the `X-User-ID: 4` header to set a user id so you don't have to worries about cookies etc. This can be set using the *HTTP Headers* tab at the bottom of the web UI you'll see when you visit the above link. You can also directly run queries from the commandline like below.
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#### Querying the GQL endpoint
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```bash
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# fetch the response json directly from the endpoint using user id 5
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curl 'http://localhost:8080/api/v1/graphql' \
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-H 'content-type: application/json' \
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-H 'X-User-ID: 5' \
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--data-binary '{"query":"{ products { name price users { email }}}"}'
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```
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## Get Started
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Super Graph can generate your initial app for you. The generated app will have config files, database migrations and seed files among other things like docker related files.
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You can then add your database schema to the migrations, maybe create some seed data using the seed script and launch Super Graph. You're now good to go and can start working on your UI frontend in React, Vue or whatever.
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```bash
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# use the below command to download and install Super Graph. You will need Go 1.13 or above
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GO111MODULE=on go get -u github.com/dosco/super-graph
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# create a new app and change to it's directory
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super-graph new blog; cd blog
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# setup the app database and seed it with fake data. Docker compose will start a Postgres database for your app
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docker-compose run blog_api ./super-graph db:setup
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# and finally launch Super Graph configured for your app
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docker-compose up
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```
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Lets take a look at the files generated by Super Graph when you create a new app
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```bash
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super-graph new blog
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> created 'blog'
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> created 'blog/Dockerfile'
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> created 'blog/docker-compose.yml'
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> created 'blog/config'
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> created 'blog/config/dev.yml'
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> created 'blog/config/prod.yml'
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> created 'blog/config/seed.js'
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> created 'blog/config/migrations'
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> created 'blog/config/migrations/100_init.sql'
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> app 'blog' initialized
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```
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### Docker files
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Docker Compose is a great way to run multiple services while developing on your desktop or laptop. In our case we need Postgres and Super Graph to both be running and the `docker-compose.yml` is configured to do just that. The Super Graph service is named after your app postfixed with `_api`. The Dockerfile can be used build a containr of your app for production deployment.
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```bash
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docker-compose run blog_api ./super-graph help
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```
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### Config files
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All the config files needs to configure Super Graph for your app are contained in this folder for starters you have two `dev.yaml` and `prod.yaml`. When the `GO_ENV` environment variable is set to `development` then `dev.yaml` is used and the prod one when it's set to `production`. Stage and Test are the other two environment options, but you can set the `GO_ENV` to whatever you like (eg. `alpha-test`) and Super Graph will look for a yaml file with that name to load config from.
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### Seed.js
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Having data flowing through your API makes building your frontend UI so much easier. When creafting say a user profile wouldn't it be nice for the API to return a fake user with name, picture and all. This is why having the ability to seed your database is important. Seeding cn also be used in production to setup some initial users like the admins or to add an initial set of products to a ecommerce store.
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Super Graph makes this easy by allowing you to write your seeding script in plan old Javascript. The below file that auto-generated for new apps uses our built-in functions `fake` and `graphql` to generate fake data and use GraphQL mutations to insert it into the database.
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```javascript
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// Example script to seed database
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var users = [];
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for (i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
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var data = {
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full_name: fake.name(),
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email: fake.email()
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}
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var res = graphql(" \
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mutation { \
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user(insert: $data) { \
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id \
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} \
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}", { data: data })
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users.push(res.user)
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}
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```
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You can generate the following fake data for your seeding purposes. Below is the list of fake data functions supported by the built-in fake data library. For example `fake.image_url()` will generate a fake image url or `fake.shuffle_strings(['hello', 'world', 'cool'])` will generate a randomly shuffled version of that array of strings or `fake.rand_string(['hello', 'world', 'cool'])` will return a random string from the array provided.
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// Person
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person
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name
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name_prefix
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name_suffix
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first_name
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last_name
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gender
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ssn
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contact
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email
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phone
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phone_formatted
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username
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password
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// Address
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address
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city
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country
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country_abr
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state
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state_abr
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status_code
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street
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street_name
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street_number
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street_prefix
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street_suffix
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zip
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latitude
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latitude_in_range
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longitude
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longitude_in_range
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// Beer
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beer_alcohol
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beer_hop
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beer_ibu
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beer_blg
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beer_malt
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beer_name
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beer_style
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beer_yeast
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// Cars
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vehicle
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vehicle_type
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car_maker
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car_model
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fuel_type
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transmission_gear_type
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// Text
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word
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sentence
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paragrph
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question
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quote
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// Misc
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generate
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boolean
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uuid
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// Colors
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color
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hex_color
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rgb_color
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safe_color
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// Internet
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url
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image_url
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domain_name
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domain_suffix
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ipv4_address
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ipv6_address
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simple_status_code
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http_method
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user_agent
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user_agent_firefox
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user_agent_chrome
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user_agent_opera
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user_agent_safari
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// Date / Time
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date
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date_range
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nano_second
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second
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minute
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hour
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month
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day
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weekday
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year
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timezone
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timezone_abv
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timezone_full
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timezone_offset
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// Payment
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price
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credit_card
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credit_card_cvv
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credit_card_number
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credit_card_number_luhn
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credit_card_type
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currency
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currency_long
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currency_short
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// Company
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bs
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buzzword
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company
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company_suffix
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job
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job_description
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job_level
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job_title
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// Hacker
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hacker_abbreviation
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hacker_adjective
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hacker_ingverb
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hacker_noun
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hacker_phrase
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hacker_verb
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//Hipster
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hipster_word
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hipster_paragraph
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hipster_sentence
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// File
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extension
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mine_type
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// Numbers
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number
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numerify
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int8
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int16
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int32
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int64
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uint8
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uint16
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uint32
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uint64
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float32
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float32_range
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float64
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float64_range
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shuffle_ints
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mac_address
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//String
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digit
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letter
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lexify
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rand_string
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shuffle_strings
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numerify
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```
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### Migrations
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Easy database migrations is the most important thing when building products backend by a relational database. We make it super easy to manage and migrate your database.
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```bash
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super-graph db:new create_users
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> created migration 'config/migrations/101_create_users.sql'
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```
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Migrations in Super Graph are plain old Postgres SQL. Here's an example for the above migration.
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```sql
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-- Write your migrate up statements here
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CREATE TABLE public.users (
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id bigint GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY PRIMARY KEY,
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full_name text,
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email text UNIQUE NOT NULL CHECK (length(email) < 255),
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created_at timestamptz NOT NULL NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW(),
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updated_at timestamptz NOT NULL NOT NULL DEFAULT NOW()
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);
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---- create above / drop below ----
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-- Write your down migrate statements here. If this migration is irreversible
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-- then delete the separator line above.
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DROP TABLE public.users
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```
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We would encourage you to leverage triggers to maintain consistancy of your data for example here are a couple triggers that you can add to you init migration and across your tables.
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```sql
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-- This trigger script will set the updated_at column everytime a row is updated
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CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigger_set_updated_at()
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RETURNS TRIGGER SET SCHEMA 'public' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' AS $$
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BEGIN
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new.updated_at = now();
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RETURN new;
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END;
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$$;
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...
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-- An exmple of adding this trigger to the users table
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CREATE TRIGGER set_updated_at BEFORE UPDATE ON public.users
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FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE trigger_set_updated_at();
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```
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```sql
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-- This trigger script will set the user_id column to the current
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-- Super Graph user.id value everytime a row is created or updated
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CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION trigger_set_user_id()
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RETURNS TRIGGER SET SCHEMA 'public' LANGUAGE 'plpgsql' AS $$
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BEGIN
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IF TG_OP = 'UPDATE' THEN
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new.user_id = old.user_id;
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ELSE
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new.user_id = current_setting('user.id')::int;
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END IF;
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RETURN new;
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END;
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$$;
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...
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-- An exmple of adding this trigger to the blog_posts table
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CREATE TRIGGER set_user_id BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON public.blog_posts
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FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE trigger_set_user_id();
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```
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## How to GraphQL
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GraphQL (GQL) is a simple query syntax that's fast replacing REST APIs. GQL is great since it allows web developers to fetch the exact data that they need without depending on changes to backend code. Also if you squint hard enough it looks a little bit like JSON :smiley:
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The below query will fetch an `users` name, email and avatar image (renamed as picture). If you also need the users `id` then just add it to the query.
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```graphql
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query {
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user {
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full_name
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email
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picture : avatar
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}
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}
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```
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### Fetching data
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To fetch a specific `product` by it's ID you can use the `id` argument. The real name id field will be resolved automatically so this query will work even if your id column is named something like `product_id`.
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```graphql
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query {
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products(id: 3) {
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name
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}
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}
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```
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Postgres also supports full text search using a TSV index. Super Graph makes it easy to use this full text search capability using the `search` argument.
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```graphql
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query {
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products(search: "ale") {
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name
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}
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}
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```
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### Advanced queries
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Super Graph support complex queries where you can add filters, ordering,offsets and limits on the query.
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#### Logical Operators
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Name | Example | Explained |
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and | price : { and : { gt: 10.5, lt: 20 } | price > 10.5 AND price < 20
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or | or : { price : { greater_than : 20 }, quantity: { gt : 0 } } | price >= 20 OR quantity > 0
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not | not: { or : { quantity : { eq: 0 }, price : { eq: 0 } } } | NOT (quantity = 0 OR price = 0)
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#### Other conditions
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Name | Example | Explained |
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eq, equals | id : { eq: 100 } | id = 100
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neq, not_equals | id: { not_equals: 100 } | id != 100
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gt, greater_than | id: { gt: 100 } | id > 100
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lt, lesser_than | id: { gt: 100 } | id < 100
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gte, greater_or_equals | id: { gte: 100 } | id >= 100
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lte, lesser_or_equals | id: { lesser_or_equals: 100 } | id <= 100
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in | status: { in: [ "A", "B", "C" ] } | status IN ('A', 'B', 'C)
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nin, not_in | status: { in: [ "A", "B", "C" ] } | status IN ('A', 'B', 'C)
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like | name: { like "phil%" } | Names starting with 'phil'
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nlike, not_like | name: { nlike "v%m" } | Not names starting with 'v' and ending with 'm'
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ilike | name: { ilike "%wOn" } | Names ending with 'won' case-insensitive
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nilike, not_ilike | name: { nilike "%wOn" } | Not names ending with 'won' case-insensitive
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similar | name: { similar: "%(b\|d)%" } | [Similar Docs](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-SIMILARTO-REGEXP)
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nsimilar, not_similar | name: { nsimilar: "%(b\|d)%" } | [Not Similar Docs](https://www.postgresql.org/docs/9/functions-matching.html#FUNCTIONS-SIMILARTO-REGEXP)
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has_key | column: { has_key: 'b' } | Does JSON column contain this key
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has_key_any | column: { has_key_any: [ a, b ] } | Does JSON column contain any of these keys
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has_key_all | column: [ a, b ] | Does JSON column contain all of this keys
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contains | column: { contains: [1, 2, 4] } | Is this array/json column a subset of value
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contained_in | column: { contains: "{'a':1, 'b':2}" } | Is this array/json column a subset of these value
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is_null | column: { is_null: true } | Is column value null or not
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### Aggregations
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You will often find the need to fetch aggregated values from the database such as `count`, `max`, `min`, etc. This is simple to do with GraphQL, just prefix the aggregation name to the field name that you want to aggregrate like `count_id`. The below query will group products by name and find the minimum price for each group. Notice the `min_price` field we're adding `min_` to price.
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```graphql
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query {
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products {
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name
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min_price
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}
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}
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```
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Name | Explained |
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avg | Average value
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count | Count the values
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max | Maximum value
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min | Minimum value
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stddev | [Standard Deviation](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_deviation)
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stddev_pop | Population Standard Deviation
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|
stddev_samp | Sample Standard Deviation
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|
variance | [Variance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variance)
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|
var_pop | Population Standard Variance
|
|
var_samp | Sample Standard variance
|
|
|
|
All kinds of queries are possible with GraphQL. Below is an example that uses a lot of the features available. Comments `# hello` are also valid within queries.
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
query {
|
|
products(
|
|
# returns only 30 items
|
|
limit: 30,
|
|
|
|
# starts from item 10, commented out for now
|
|
# offset: 10,
|
|
|
|
# orders the response items by highest price
|
|
order_by: { price: desc },
|
|
|
|
# no duplicate prices returned
|
|
distinct: [ price ]
|
|
|
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# only items with an id >= 30 and < 30 are returned
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where: { id: { and: { greater_or_equals: 20, lt: 28 } } }) {
|
|
id
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|
name
|
|
price
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
## Mutations
|
|
|
|
In GraphQL mutations is the operation type for when you need to modify data. Super Graph supports the `insert`, `update`, `upsert` and `delete` database operations. Here are some examples.
|
|
|
|
When using mutations the data must be passed as variables since Super Graphs compiles the query into an prepared statement in the database for maximum speed. Prepared statements are are functions in your code when called they accept arguments and your variables are passed in as those arguments.
|
|
|
|
### Insert
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"name": "Art of Computer Programming",
|
|
"description": "The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by computer scientist Donald Knuth",
|
|
"price": 30.5
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(insert: $data) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Bulk insert
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": [{
|
|
"name": "Art of Computer Programming",
|
|
"description": "The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by computer scientist Donald Knuth",
|
|
"price": 30.5
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"name": "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools",
|
|
"description": "Known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the 'Dragon Book' is available in a new edition",
|
|
"price": 93.74
|
|
}]
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(insert: $data) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Update
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"price": 200.0
|
|
},
|
|
"product_id": 5
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(update: $data, id: $product_id) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Bulk update
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"price": 500.0
|
|
},
|
|
"gt_product_id": 450.0,
|
|
"lt_product_id:": 550.0
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(update: $data, where: {
|
|
price: { gt: $gt_product_id, lt: lt_product_id }
|
|
}) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Delete
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"price": 500.0
|
|
},
|
|
"product_id": 5
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(delete: true, id: $product_id) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Bulk delete
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"price": 500.0
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(delete: true, where: { price: { eq: { 500.0 } } }) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Upsert
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"id": 5,
|
|
"name": "Art of Computer Programming",
|
|
"description": "The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by computer scientist Donald Knuth",
|
|
"price": 30.5
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(upsert: $data) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Bulk upsert
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": [{
|
|
"id": 5,
|
|
"name": "Art of Computer Programming",
|
|
"description": "The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by computer scientist Donald Knuth",
|
|
"price": 30.5
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": 6,
|
|
"name": "Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools",
|
|
"description": "Known to professors, students, and developers worldwide as the 'Dragon Book' is available in a new edition",
|
|
"price": 93.74
|
|
}]
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
mutation {
|
|
product(upsert: $data) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Using variables
|
|
|
|
Variables (`$product_id`) and their values (`"product_id": 5`) can be passed along side the GraphQL query. Using variables makes for better client side code as well as improved server side SQL query caching. The build-in web-ui also supports setting variables. Not having to manipulate your GraphQL query string to insert values into it makes for cleaner
|
|
and better client side code.
|
|
|
|
```javascript
|
|
// Define the request object keeping the query and the variables seperate
|
|
var req = {
|
|
query: '{ product(id: $product_id) { name } }' ,
|
|
variables: { "product_id": 5 }
|
|
}
|
|
|
|
// Use the fetch api to make the query
|
|
fetch('http://localhost:8080/api/v1/graphql', {
|
|
method: 'POST',
|
|
headers: { 'Content-Type': 'application/json' },
|
|
body: JSON.stringify(req),
|
|
})
|
|
.then(res => res.json())
|
|
.then(res => console.log(res.data));
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### Full text search
|
|
|
|
Every app these days needs search. Enought his often means reaching for something heavy like Solr. While this will work why add complexity to your infrastructure when Postgres has really great
|
|
and fast full text search built-in. And since it's part of Postgres it's also available in Super Graph.
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
query {
|
|
products(
|
|
# Search for all products that contain 'ale' or some version of it
|
|
search: "ale"
|
|
|
|
# Return only matches where the price is less than 10
|
|
where: { price: { lt: 10 } }
|
|
|
|
# Use the search_rank to order from the best match to the worst
|
|
order_by: { search_rank: desc }) {
|
|
id
|
|
name
|
|
search_rank
|
|
search_headline_description
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
This query will use the `tsvector` column in your database table to search for products that contain the query phrase or some version of it. To get the internal relevance ranking for the search results using the `search_rank` field. And to get the highlighted context within any of the table columns you can use the `search_headline_` field prefix. For example `search_headline_name` will return the contents of the products name column which contains the matching query marked with the `<b></b>` html tags.
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
{
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"products": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": 11,
|
|
"name": "Maharaj",
|
|
"search_rank": 0.243171,
|
|
"search_headline_description": "Blue Moon, Vegetable Beer, Willamette, 1007 - German <b>Ale</b>, 48 IBU, 7.9%, 11.8°Blg"
|
|
},
|
|
{
|
|
"id": 12,
|
|
"name": "Schneider Aventinus",
|
|
"search_rank": 0.243171,
|
|
"search_headline_description": "Dos Equis, Wood-aged Beer, Magnum, 1099 - Whitbread <b>Ale</b>, 15 IBU, 9.5%, 13.0°Blg"
|
|
},
|
|
...
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
#### Adding search to your Rails app
|
|
|
|
It's really easy to enable Postgres search on any table within your database schema. All it takes is to create the following migration. In the below example we add a full-text search to the `products` table.
|
|
|
|
```ruby
|
|
class AddSearchColumn < ActiveRecord::Migration[5.1]
|
|
def self.up
|
|
add_column :products, :tsv, :tsvector
|
|
add_index :products, :tsv, using: "gin"
|
|
|
|
say_with_time("Adding trigger to update the ts_vector column") do
|
|
execute <<-SQL
|
|
CREATE FUNCTION products_tsv_trigger() RETURNS trigger AS $$
|
|
begin
|
|
new.tsv :=
|
|
setweight(to_tsvector('pg_catalog.english', coalesce(new.name,'')), 'A') ||
|
|
setweight(to_tsvector('pg_catalog.english', coalesce(new.description,'')), 'B');
|
|
return new;
|
|
end
|
|
$$ LANGUAGE plpgsql;
|
|
|
|
CREATE TRIGGER tsvectorupdate BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE ON products FOR EACH ROW EXECUTE PROCEDURE products_tsv_trigger();
|
|
SQL
|
|
end
|
|
end
|
|
|
|
def self.down
|
|
say_with_time("Removing trigger to update the tsv column") do
|
|
execute <<-SQL
|
|
DROP TRIGGER tsvectorupdate
|
|
ON products
|
|
SQL
|
|
end
|
|
|
|
remove_index :products, :tsv
|
|
remove_column :products, :tsv
|
|
end
|
|
end
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
## Remote Joins
|
|
|
|
It often happens that after fetching some data from the DB we need to call another API to fetch some more data and all this combined into a single JSON response. For example along with a list of users you need their last 5 payments from Stripe. This requires you to query your DB for the users and Stripe for the payments. Super Graph handles all this for you also only the fields you requested from the Stripe API are returned.
|
|
|
|
::: tip Is this fast?
|
|
Super Graph is able fetch remote data and merge it with the DB response in an efficient manner. Several optimizations such as parallel HTTP requests and a zero-allocation JSON merge algorithm makes this very fast. All of this without you having to write a line of code.
|
|
:::
|
|
|
|
For example you need to list the last 3 payments made by a user. You will first need to look up the user in the database and then call the Stripe API to fetch his last 3 payments. For this to work your user table in the db has a `customer_id` column that contains his Stripe customer ID.
|
|
|
|
Similiarly you could also fetch the users last tweet, lead info from Salesforce or whatever else you need. It's fine to mix up several different `remote joins` into a single GraphQL query.
|
|
|
|
### Stripe API example
|
|
|
|
The configuration is self explanatory. A `payments` field has been added under the `customers` table. This field is added to the `remotes` subsection that defines fields associated with `customers` that are remote and not real database columns.
|
|
|
|
The `id` parameter maps a column from the `customers` table to the `$id` variable. In this case it maps `$id` to the `customer_id` column.
|
|
|
|
```yaml
|
|
tables:
|
|
- name: customers
|
|
remotes:
|
|
- name: payments
|
|
id: stripe_id
|
|
url: http://rails_app:3000/stripe/$id
|
|
path: data
|
|
# debug: true
|
|
# pass_headers:
|
|
# - cookie
|
|
# - host
|
|
set_headers:
|
|
- name: Authorization
|
|
value: Bearer <stripe_api_key>
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
#### How do I make use of this?
|
|
|
|
Just include `payments` like you would any other GraphQL selector under the `customers` selector. Super Graph will call the configured API for you and stitch (merge) the JSON the API sends back with the JSON generated from the database query. GraphQL features like aliases and fields all work.
|
|
|
|
```graphql
|
|
query {
|
|
customers {
|
|
id
|
|
email
|
|
payments {
|
|
customer_id
|
|
amount
|
|
billing_details
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
}
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
And voila here is the result. You get all of this advanced and honestly complex querying capability without writing a single line of code.
|
|
|
|
```json
|
|
"data": {
|
|
"customers": [
|
|
{
|
|
"id": 1,
|
|
"email": "linseymertz@reilly.co",
|
|
"payments": [
|
|
{
|
|
"customer_id": "cus_YCj3ndB5Mz",
|
|
"amount": 100,
|
|
"billing_details": {
|
|
"address": "1 Infinity Drive",
|
|
"zipcode": "94024"
|
|
}
|
|
},
|
|
...
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
Even tracing data is availble in the Super Graph web UI if tracing is enabled in the config. By default it is enabled in development. Additionally there you can set `debug: true` to enable http request / response dumping to help with debugging.
|
|
|
|
![Query Tracing](/tracing.png "Super Graph Web UI Query Tracing")
|
|
|
|
## Authentication
|
|
|
|
You can only have one type of auth enabled. You can either pick Rails or JWT.
|
|
|
|
### Rails Auth (Devise / Warden)
|
|
|
|
Almost all Rails apps use Devise or Warden for authentication. Once the user is
|
|
authenticated a session is created with the users ID. The session can either be
|
|
stored in the users browser as a cookie, memcache or redis. If memcache or redis is used then a cookie is set in the users browser with just the session id.
|
|
|
|
Super Graph can handle all these variations including the old and new session formats. Just enable the right `auth` config based on how your rails app is configured.
|
|
|
|
#### Cookie session store
|
|
|
|
```yaml
|
|
auth:
|
|
type: rails
|
|
cookie: _app_session
|
|
|
|
rails:
|
|
# Rails version this is used for reading the
|
|
# various cookies formats.
|
|
version: 5.2
|
|
|
|
# Found in 'Rails.application.config.secret_key_base'
|
|
secret_key_base: 0a248500a64c01184edb4d7ad3a805488f8097ac761b76aaa6c17c01dcb7af03a2f18ba61b2868134b9c7b79a122bc0dadff4367414a2d173297bfea92be5566
|
|
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
#### Memcache session store
|
|
|
|
```yaml
|
|
auth:
|
|
type: rails
|
|
cookie: _app_session
|
|
|
|
rails:
|
|
# Memcache remote cookie store.
|
|
url: memcache://127.0.0.1
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
#### Redis session store
|
|
|
|
```yaml
|
|
auth:
|
|
type: rails
|
|
cookie: _app_session
|
|
|
|
rails:
|
|
# Redis remote cookie store
|
|
url: redis://127.0.0.1:6379
|
|
password: ""
|
|
max_idle: 80
|
|
max_active: 12000
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
### JWT Token Auth
|
|
|
|
```yaml
|
|
auth:
|
|
type: jwt
|
|
|
|
jwt:
|
|
# the two providers are 'auth0' and 'none'
|
|
provider: auth0
|
|
secret: abc335bfcfdb04e50db5bb0a4d67ab9
|
|
public_key_file: /secrets/public_key.pem
|
|
public_key_type: ecdsa #rsa
|
|
```
|
|
|
|
For JWT tokens we currently support tokens from a provider like Auth0
|
|
or if you have a custom solution then we look for the `user_id` in the
|
|
`subject` claim of of the `id token`. If you pick Auth0 then we derive two variables from the token `user_id` and `user_id_provider` for to use in your filters.
|
|
|
|
We can get the JWT token either from the `authorization` header where we expect it to be a `bearer` token or if `cookie` is specified then we look there.
|
|
|
|
For validation a `secret` or a public key (ecdsa or rsa) is required. When using public keys they have to be in a PEM format file.
|
|
|
|
## Easy to setup
|
|
|
|
Configuration files can either be in YAML or JSON their names are derived from the `GO_ENV` variable, for example `GO_ENV=prod` will cause the `prod.yaml` config file to be used. or `GO_ENV=dev` will use the `dev.yaml`. A path to look for the config files in can be specified using the `-path <folder>` command line argument.
|
|
|
|
We're tried to ensure that the config file is self documenting and easy to work with.
|
|
|
|
```yaml
|
|
app_name: "Super Graph Development"
|
|
host_port: 0.0.0.0:8080
|
|
web_ui: true
|
|
debug_level: 1
|
|
|
|
# debug, info, warn, error, fatal, panic, disable
|
|
log_level: "info"
|
|
|
|
# Disable this in development to get a list of
|
|
# queries used. When enabled super graph
|
|
# will only allow queries from this list
|
|
# List saved to ./config/allow.list
|
|
use_allow_list: true
|
|
|
|
# Throw a 401 on auth failure for queries that need auth
|
|
# valid values: always, per_query, never
|
|
auth_fail_block: always
|
|
|
|
# Latency tracing for database queries and remote joins
|
|
# the resulting latency information is returned with the
|
|
# response
|
|
enable_tracing: true
|
|
|
|
# Postgres related environment Variables
|
|
# SG_DATABASE_HOST
|
|
# SG_DATABASE_PORT
|
|
# SG_DATABASE_USER
|
|
# SG_DATABASE_PASSWORD
|
|
|
|
# Auth related environment Variables
|
|
# SG_AUTH_RAILS_COOKIE_SECRET_KEY_BASE
|
|
# SG_AUTH_RAILS_REDIS_URL
|
|
# SG_AUTH_RAILS_REDIS_PASSWORD
|
|
# SG_AUTH_JWT_PUBLIC_KEY_FILE
|
|
|
|
# inflections:
|
|
# person: people
|
|
# sheep: sheep
|
|
|
|
auth:
|
|
# Can be 'rails' or 'jwt'
|
|
type: rails
|
|
cookie: _app_session
|
|
|
|
# Comment this out if you want to disable setting
|
|
# the user_id via a header. Good for testing
|
|
header: X-User-ID
|
|
|
|
rails:
|
|
# Rails version this is used for reading the
|
|
# various cookies formats.
|
|
version: 5.2
|
|
|
|
# Found in 'Rails.application.config.secret_key_base'
|
|
secret_key_base: 0a248500a64c01184edb4d7ad3a805488f8097ac761b76aaa6c17c01dcb7af03a2f18ba61b2868134b9c7b79a122bc0dadff4367414a2d173297bfea92be5566
|
|
|
|
# Remote cookie store. (memcache or redis)
|
|
# url: redis://127.0.0.1:6379
|
|
# password: test
|
|
# max_idle: 80,
|
|
# max_active: 12000,
|
|
|
|
# In most cases you don't need these
|
|
# salt: "encrypted cookie"
|
|
# sign_salt: "signed encrypted cookie"
|
|
# auth_salt: "authenticated encrypted cookie"
|
|
|
|
# jwt:
|
|
# provider: auth0
|
|
# secret: abc335bfcfdb04e50db5bb0a4d67ab9
|
|
# public_key_file: /secrets/public_key.pem
|
|
# public_key_type: ecdsa #rsa
|
|
|
|
database:
|
|
type: postgres
|
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host: db
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port: 5432
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dbname: app_development
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user: postgres
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password: ''
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# pool_size: 10
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# max_retries: 0
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# log_level: "debug"
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# Define variables here that you want to use in filters
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variables:
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account_id: "select account_id from users where id = $user_id"
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# Define defaults to for the field key and values below
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defaults:
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filter: ["{ user_id: { eq: $user_id } }"]
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# Field and table names that you wish to block
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blacklist:
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- ar_internal_metadata
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- schema_migrations
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- secret
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- password
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- encrypted
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- token
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tables:
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- name: users
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# This filter will overwrite defaults.filter
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filter: ["{ id: { eq: $user_id } }"]
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- name: products
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# Multiple filters are AND'd together
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filter: [
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"{ price: { gt: 0 } }",
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"{ price: { lt: 8 } }"
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]
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- name: customers
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# No filter is used for this field not
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# even defaults.filter
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filter: none
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remotes:
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- name: payments
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id: stripe_id
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url: http://rails_app:3000/stripe/$id
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path: data
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# pass_headers:
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# - cookie
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# - host
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set_headers:
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- name: Authorization
|
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value: Bearer <stripe_api_key>
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|
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- # You can create new fields that have a
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# real db table backing them
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name: me
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table: users
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filter: ["{ id: { eq: $user_id } }"]
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|
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# - name: posts
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# filter: ["{ account_id: { _eq: $account_id } }"]
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```
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If deploying into environments like Kubernetes it's useful to be able to configure things like secrets and hosts though environment variables therfore we expose the below environment variables. This is escpecially useful for secrets since they are usually injected in via a secrets management framework ie. Kubernetes Secrets
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Keep in mind any value can be overwritten using environment variables for example `auth.jwt.public_key_type` converts to `SG_AUTH_JWT_PUBLIC_KEY_TYPE`. In short prefix `SG_`, upper case and all `.` should changed to `_`.
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#### Postgres environment variables
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```bash
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SG_DATABASE_HOST
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SG_DATABASE_PORT
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SG_DATABASE_USER
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SG_DATABASE_PASSWORD
|
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```
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|
|
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#### Auth environment variables
|
|
```bash
|
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SG_AUTH_RAILS_COOKIE_SECRET_KEY_BASE
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SG_AUTH_RAILS_REDIS_URL
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|
SG_AUTH_RAILS_REDIS_PASSWORD
|
|
SG_AUTH_JWT_PUBLIC_KEY_FILE
|
|
```
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## Developing Super Graph
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If you want to build and run Super Graph from code then the below commands will build the web ui and launch Super Graph in developer mode with a watcher to rebuild on code changes. And the demo rails app is also launched to make it essier to test changes.
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|
|
```bash
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|
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# yarn is needed to build the web ui
|
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brew install yarn
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|
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# yarn install dependencies and build the web ui
|
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(cd web && yarn install && yarn build)
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|
|
# generate some stuff the go code needs
|
|
go generate ./...
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|
|
|
# do this the only the time to setup the database
|
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docker-compose run rails_app rake db:create db:migrate db:seed
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|
|
|
# start super graph in development mode with a change watcher
|
|
docker-compose up
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|
|
```
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## MIT License
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MIT Licensed | Copyright © 2018-present Vikram Rangnekar
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