Example GET requests

[Ericnunez]

I want to create some sample curl requests for an api that I created using the DGS framework but I am having some trouble with the GET request. Am I able to make GET requests with url parameters? The response that I get when making a GET request is Invalid GraphQL request - no request body was provided. I imagine that with url parameters this won't make sense but I have seen other graphql APIs offer GET support.

Sample curl request sans encoding:
curl -g
-X GET
-H "Content-Type: application/json"
'http://localhost:8080/graphql?query=?query=query($where:Filter){testCollection(where:$where){items{title}}}&variables={"draft":true}

[shuston]

Usually the query is sent as the body of a POST

[shuston]

If you can run GraphQL Playground or GraphiQL on your API you'll be able to see the content of the query and variables. GraphQL Playground will also help you enter a valid query. Maybe GraphiQL will too - I've not played with that.

[paulbakker]

The framework only supports POST requests. Note that it supports both application/json and application/graphql. The latter is really nice when using something like curl, because you don't have to quote/escape things.

curl -X POST --location "http://localhost:8080/graphql" \
    -H "Content-Type: application/graphql" \
    -d "{
  hello
}"

Besides curl, you can also use the HTTP Request feature in Intellij, and of course there is /graphiql.

[Ericnunez]

thank you!