GraphQL Kotlin Federated Subgraph

This template can be used to create Federated GraphQL subgraph using GraphQL Kotlin. You can use this template from Rover with rover template use --template subgraph-graphql-kotlin.

GraphQL Kotlin uses reflection API to generate schema directly from your source code. All public functions in classes implementing Query/Mutation will be exposed as corresponding queries and mutations.

This example application implements following GraphQL schema:

schema
  @contact(description : "send urgent issues to [#oncall](https://yourteam.slack.com/archives/oncall).", name : "FooBar Server Team", url : "https://myteam.slack.com/archives/teams-chat-room-url")
  @link(import : ["key"], url : "https://www.apollographql.com/docs/federation/federation-spec/") {
    query: Query
}

type Foo @key(fields : "id", resolvable : true) {
    id: ID!
    name: String!
}

type Query {
    foo(id: ID!): Foo
}

Build

This project uses Gradle and requires Java 17+ runtime. In order to build the project locally (which will also execute all the tests), simply run the build task.

./gradlew build

NOTE: in order to ensure you use the right version of Gradle we highly recommend to use the provided wrapper script

Code Quality

Build is configured with detekt plugin that runs static code analysis and also JaCoCo plugin that measures the code coverage. Both plugins are configured to run as part of the build lifecycle and will generate their reports under build/reports. You can invoke both plugins directly using their corresponding tasks.

./gradlew detekt
./gradlew jacocoTestReport

Example integration test is provided. It starts up the SpringBoot server and executes example queries against it.

./gradlew test

Generating SDL

Build is configured to automatically generate SDL file upon completion. If you need to regenerate the file without running whole build, you can run the graphqlGenerateSDL task directly.

./gradlew graphqlGenerateSDL

Continuous Integration

This project comes with some example build actions that will trigger on PR requests and commits to the main branch.

Run

To start the GraphQL server:

• Run Application.kt directly from your IDE
• Alternatively you can also run the Spring Boot plugin directly from the command line

./gradlew bootRun

Once the app has started you can explore the example schema by opening the GraphQL Playground endpoint at http://localhost:8080/playground and begin developing your supergraph with rover dev --url http://localhost:8080/graphql --name my-sugraph.

Apollo Studio Integration

1. Set these secrets in GitHub Actions:
   1. APOLLO_KEY: An Apollo Studio API key for the supergraph to enable schema checks and publishing of the subgraph.
   2. APOLLO_GRAPH_REF: The name of the supergraph in Apollo Studio.
   3. PRODUCTION_URL: The URL of the deployed subgraph that the supergraph gateway will route to.
2. Set SUBGRAPH_NAME in .github/workflows/checks.yaml and .github/workflows/deploy.yaml
3. Remove the if: false lines from .github/workflows/checks.yaml and .github/workflows/deploy.yaml to enable schema checks and publishing.
4. Write your custom deploy logic in .github/workflows/deploy.yaml.
5. Send the Router-Authorization header from your Cloud router and set the ROUTER_SECRET environment variable wherever you deploy this to.

Additional Resources

• GraphQL Kotlin documentation
• Spring Boot documentation
• Gradle documentation