http://localhost:1313/tags/websocket/ Recent content in Websocket on Yunier's Wiki Hugo en Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/post/2021/asynchronous-request-in-graphql/ Sun, 03 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000 http://localhost:1313/post/2021/asynchronous-request-in-graphql/ <p>When I first started to learn about GraphQL I was somewhat surprise to learn that the <a href="https://spec.graphql.org/June2018/">GraphQL specification</a> did not provide any guidance or spoke of any methods to handle asynchronous request. By asynchronous request, I mean request that cannot be completed within your normal request-response context.</p> <p>For example, take an API that aggregates orders by combining various types of filters, the API may allow you to filter by only orders that are greater than $100.00, or orders placed in certain date range, or orders that have a particular product and so on. Depending on the amount of data and filters used, the query to get the data may take a couple of minutes, maybe even hours. The question now becomes how to best handle long-running request in GraphQL.</p>