v5.0-beta.1

Added

• Apply validation rules to input types by providing a validator class #1185
• Include schema directives when running php artisan lighthouse:validate-schema #1494
• Add ability to query for the existence of relations in where conditions #1412
• Handle content types application/graphql and application/x-www-form-urlencoded properly #1424
• Mark directives that can be used more than once per location as repeatable #1529
• Allow configuring global field middleware directives in config/lighthouse.php #1533

Changed

• \Nuwave\Lighthouse\Exceptions\ValidationException no longer extends \Illuminate\Validation\ValidationException #1185
• Move validation related classes into namespace Nuwave\Lighthouse\Validation #1185
• Run ArgDirectives in distinct phases: Sanitize, Validate, Transform #1185
• The directive interfaces ArgBuilderDirective, ArgTransformerDirective and ArgDirectiveForArray
  extend Directive instead of ArgDirective #1185
• Change the autogeneration of the OrderByClause input for @orderBy, the
  argument field is now always called column #1337
• Names for autogenerated types are now prepended with the name of the fields parent type
  This affects @orderBy, @whereConditions and @whereHasConditions #1337
• __invoke is now the only supported method name for convention based
  field resolver classes #1422
• Change \Nuwave\Lighthouse\Support\Contracts\Directive to require all directives to have an SDL
  definition by implementing public static definition(): string #1386
• Combine Nuwave\Lighthouse\Schema\Factories\DirectiveNamespacer and Nuwave\Lighthouse\Schema\Factories\DirectiveFactory into
  \Lighthouse\Schema\DirectiveLocator #1494
• Require haydenpierce/class-finder as a built-in dependency #1494
• Add method defaultHasOperator to \Nuwave\Lighthouse\WhereConditions\Operator #1412
• Change default configuration options in lighthouse.php:
  • 'guard' => 'api'
  • 'forceFill' => true
• Use laragraph/laravel-graphql-utils for parsing HTTP requests #1424
• Replace the subscription broadcast queued event handler with a queued job to allow the queue name to be specified #1507
• Make @method call the underlying method with the arguments as ordered parameters instead
  of the full resolver arguments #1509
• Change ErrorHandler method handle() to non-static __invoke() and allow discarding
  errors by returning null
• Allow subscriptions without named operations, base channels on the field name
• Set lighthouse.debug config through env LIGHTHOUSE_DEBUG #1592
• Test helper multipartGraphQL now accepts arrays instead of JSON strings #1615
• Use DateTime::ATOM for DateTimeTZ ISO 8601 compatibility #1622

Removed

• Remove support for PHP 7.1, Laravel 5.5 and PHPUnit 6 #1192
• Remove TestResponse::jsonGet() helper, use ->json() instead https://github.com/nuwave/lighthouse/pull/1192/files
• Remove \Nuwave\Lighthouse\Execution\GraphQLValidator as validation now uses Laravel's native validator #1185
• Remove interfaces HasArgumentPath and HasErrorBuffer and the parts of FieldFactory that calls them #1185
• Remove the ValidationDirective abstract class in favour of validator classes #1185
• Remove configuration option lighthouse.orderBy, always uses column now #1337
• Remove \Nuwave\Lighthouse\Support\Contracts\DefinedDirective interface, moving its
  functionality to \Nuwave\Lighthouse\Support\Contracts\Directive #1386
• Remove fallback for lighthouse.cache.ttl setting #1423
• Remove Nuwave\Lighthouse\Schema\AST\PartialParser in favor of GraphQL\Language\Parser #1457
• Remove Nuwave\Lighthouse\Execution\GraphQLRequest singleton #1424
• Remove @bcrypt in favor of @hash #1200
• Remove the @middleware directive, as it violates the boundary between HTTP and GraphQL
  request handling. Use @guard or other field middleware directives instead #1135
• Remove configuration option pagination_amount_argument, it is always first now

Fixed

• Prefix complex conditions with table name to avoid ambiguous SQL #1530