Migrating from graphql-spqr to Spring for GraphQL

[ChristianB011]

I am migrating our company's codebase from the graphql-spqr library because it is no longer being maintained, and the only feature that is missing from Spring for GraphQL that we use is the ability to generate the GraphQL schema from our existing pojo classes (commonly called 'code first' by other implementations in the community) without having to duplicate everything across separate schema files. I was wondering if similar functionality is planned for the Spring for GraphQL package as we would like to move to the official package without defining separate schema files. If not, would the Spring for GraphQL team consider a pull request with this feature if we developed it ourselves?

[bclozel]

Hello @ChristianB011

This is something that we discussed several times and I don't think we will ever support it.

You can read about the rationale and the possible workarounds on this issue: #1235

[ChristianB011]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction! I was looking for previous issues and that is exactly what I was looking for.

[hantsy]

@ChristianB011 Consider Quakrus GraphQL support via Microprofile GraphQL, it is based the work of GraphQL SPQR.

And Quarkus also includes the basic annotations from Spring(Mvc, Data, etc.). https://quarkus.io/guides/#q=spring