Best way to swap out the out of the box graphiql client? #731
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Sup DGS wizards, So the context is: I am looking for a way to wrap some security around I was digging around the DGS documentation to see if there was a way that you could customise this endpoint, like maybe you want to swap it out for a customised secure http client or something...if there was a specialised yaml/property that you could specify to route the import of the htmls from another location... And I might be blind but I couldn't find anything that relates to this...so I turned to the next worst thing...the code...and started poking around in the internals of the framework. And I found this line of code: What is interesting is that it is loading up the classpath of: So I decided to create this directory in my spring boot application: And place my stubbed html page of: Reloaded the spring boot service to see what would happen and lo and behold, it loads the hello world page. So my question is.... Is this the best way to do this?Or have I violated some deep ancient set of guidelines that I was not aware of? Also take note that this was all so that I could wrap some security around the But at this point, I realised, its probably best that I roll my own front end and just route the API calls to the service... If there is a better/proper way to do this, I am all ears. |
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I think the best way would be to:
Spring Boot, out of the box, serves files out of the If you “just” want to secure it; you might not not need any of this, but instead use Spring Security to protect the /graphiql endpoint, which should also work with the built-in version. |
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Awesome, thanks @paulbakker, I suspected that is what I needed to do. I will give that a spin and see what becomes of my efforts. |
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I think the best way would be to:
dgs.graphql.graphiql.enabledproperty. Just to make sure you don’t run into weird conflicts between the built-in one, and your own.Spring Boot, out of the box, serves files out of the
staticfolder I believe, so you might not need any config, or you can further customize it with the standard SB features to work with resources.You’ll find all the configuration options for graphiql itself in their docs.
If you “just” want to secure it; you might not not need any of this, but inst…