[openstack-dev] [api] Open API 3.0 for OpenStack API

Gilles Dubreuil gdubreui at redhat.com
Mon Oct 8 09:58:24 UTC 2018


On 05/10/18 21:54, Jim Rollenhagen wrote:
> GraphQL has introspection features that allow clients to pull the 
> schema (types, queries, mutations, etc): 
> https://graphql.org/learn/introspection/
>
> That said, it seems like using this in a client like OpenStackSDK 
> would get messy quickly. Instead of asking for which versions are 
> supported, you'd have to fetch the schema, map it to actual features 
> somehow, and adjust queries based on this info.
>

A main difference in software architecture when using GraphQL is that a 
client makes use of a GraphQL client library instead of relaying on a SDK.


> I guess there might be a middleground where we could fetch the REST 
> API version, and know from that what GraphQL queries can be made.
>
> // jim
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