Server can not start after installing plugin - incompatibility with strapi-plugin-graphql

[anatintescu]

Hi!

After adding the plugin, I get the following error when trying to start the server:

$ strapi develop
[2021-09-14T16:24:34.575Z] debug ⛔️ Server wasn't able to start properly.
[2021-09-14T16:24:34.576Z] error GraphQLError: Syntax Error: Expected Name, found "}".
at syntaxError (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/error/syntaxError.js:15:10)
at Parser.expectToken (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:1413:40)
at Parser.parseName (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:98:22)
at Parser.parseFieldDefinition (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:879:21)
at Parser.optionalMany (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:1503:28)
at Parser.parseFieldsDefinition (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:868:17)
at Parser.parseObjectTypeDefinition (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:812:23)
at Parser.parseTypeSystemDefinition (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:708:23)
at Parser.parseDefinition (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:150:23)
at Parser.many (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:1523:26)
at Parser.parseDocument (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:115:25)
at Object.parse (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/graphql/language/parser.js:31:17)
at Object.addPolymorphicUnionType (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/strapi-plugin-graphql/services/type-builder.js:188:8)
at Object.generateSchema (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/strapi-plugin-graphql/services/schema-generator.js:43:35)
at Object.initialize (/Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/strapi-plugin-graphql/hooks/graphql/index.js:76:74)
at /Users/ana/Projects/Sessions/backend/app/node_modules/strapi/lib/hooks/index.js:37:28

Please find below the package.json depencencies object:

"dependencies": {
"jose": "^3.12.3",
"knex": "<0.20.0",
"pg": "latest",
"sharp": "^0.29.1",
"strapi": "3.6.8",
"strapi-admin": "3.6.8",
"strapi-connector-bookshelf": "3.6.8",
"strapi-plugin-ckeditor5": "^1.11.0",
"strapi-plugin-comments": "^1.0.2",
"strapi-plugin-content-manager": "3.6.8",
"strapi-plugin-content-type-builder": "3.6.8",
"strapi-plugin-email": "3.6.8",
"strapi-plugin-graphql": "3.6.8",
"strapi-plugin-meilisearch": "^0.3.2",
"strapi-plugin-upload": "3.6.8",
"strapi-plugin-users-permissions": "3.6.8",
"strapi-provider-upload-google-cloud-storage": "^3.6.5",
"strapi-utils": "3.6.8"
},

I tried to add the plugin on an empty Strapi solution. It works fine until I add strapi-plugin-graphql.

[natanaelsimoes]

+1

[cyp3rius]

We're investigating.

[Kronos66]

Hi @anatintescu @natanaelsimoes
I found the source of problems :) (we have to update the documentation), when I added support GQL I added configuration to add dynamic content types to support GQL, to resolve this problems you need add in configurations in ./config/plugins.js
example:

module.exports = {
  comments: {
    relatedContentTypes: {
      articles: {},
    },
  },
};

where comments will be related to articles, I can't add this dynamic based on model configuration because strapi does not always have here built content types :( - inconsistent

[dennis-hh]

I am facing the same issue. I used version 1.0.1. Now with 1.0.2, I can't start the server anymore. Something I didn't expect when updating on patch-level.