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On 4/29/2018 10:53 PM, Gilles Dubreuil wrote:
> Remember Boston's Summit presentation [1] about GraphQL [2] and how it 
> addresses REST limitations.
> I wonder if any project has been thinking about using GraphQL. I haven't 
> find any mention or pointers about it.
> 
> GraphQL takes a complete different approach compared to REST. So we can 
> finally forget about REST API Description languages 
> (OpenAPI/Swagger/WSDL/WADL/JSON-API/ETC) and HATEOS (the hypermedia 
> approach which doesn't describe how to use it).
> 
> So, once passed the point where 'REST vs GraphQL' is like comparing SQL 
> and no-SQL DBMS and therefore have different applications, there are no 
> doubt the complexity of most OpenStack projects are good candidates for 
> GraphQL.
> 
> Besides topics such as efficiency, decoupling, no version management 
> need there many other powerful features such as API Schema out of the 
> box and better automation down that track.
> 
> It looks like the dream of a conduit between API services and consumers 
> might have finally come true so we could move-on an worry about other 
> things.
> 
> So has anyone already starting looking into it?
> 
> [1] 
> https://www.openstack.org/videos/boston-2017/building-modern-apis-with-graphql 
> 
> [2] http://graphql.org

Not to speak for him, but Sean Dague had a blog post about REST API 
microversions in OpenStack and there is a Q&A bit at the bottom about 
GraphQL replacing the need for microversions:

https://dague.net/2017/12/11/rest-api-microversions/

Since I don't expect Sean to magically appear to reply to this thread, I 
thought I'd pass this along.

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Thanks,

Matt