Feature request: @defer directive

[jfrolich]

It would be awesome to have this as part of absinthe! I am interested how complex this would be to add (and perhaps start with a PR), I guess since we already have subscriptions perhaps a lot of the plumbing is already there. But I can also see that it might be a pretty tricky and need architecture changes.

It's already supported in apollo server (https://blog.apollographql.com/introducing-defer-in-apollo-server-f6797c4e9d6e) and apollo client.

[benwilson512]

Hey @jfrolich there's a PR which addresses this here: #559. It's been on ice while we've been working on the schema refactoring. That is making solid progress these days after about a 6 month haitus, so hopefully we can look towards @defer after 1.5 is released.

[jfrolich]

Great news!

[sssyed]

hi @benwilson512 sorry to drudge up an old thread but i was wondering if there were any plans to revisit adding @defer as it's currently a stage 2 draft proposal: graphql/graphql-spec#742 (comment)