Grafliq

A simple and pythonic way to query GraphQL endpoints without having to do any string manipulation.

Grafliq is a GraphQL client that provides a convenient way to handle GraphQL queries. Instead of building your query by manipulating and concatenating strings, you build your queries using function calls, eliminating all the complications and problems associated with string manipulation, and making maintenance an easy task.

Important note

Grafliq only supports the query operation of GraphQL, there is no support for mutations and subscriptions and there will be none in the foreseeable future.

Installing

Install using pip:

pip install grafliq

Example using function calls as GraphQL operations (recommended)

Let's say we want to have a GraphQL query with the following structure:

{
  category(name: "household-appliances") {
    electronics {
      gaming_consoles(
        fromReleaseDate: "2000-01-01"
        fromPrice: "150"
        discontinued: false
        colors: [BLACK, WHITE, RED]
      ) {
        brand
        name
        color
        discontinued
        release_date
        price(currency: "euro")
        model {
          name
          version
        }
        customer_rating(fromRatingDate: "2002-10-01") {
          count
          rates {
            average(decimalCount: 2)
            highest
            lowest
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

We can generate the above query using the following Python code:

from datetime import date
from grafliq.builder import GraphQL
from grafliq.query import NestedField, Quote, NoQuote, CustomizableField

query = GraphQL(
    endpoint='http://127.0.0.1:8080/graphql-api'
).category(
    name='household-appliances'
).electronics(
).gaming_consoles(
    'brand', 'name', 'color', 'discontinued', 'release_date',
    CustomizableField('price', currency="euro"),
    NestedField('model',
                'name', 'version'),
    NestedField('customer_rating',
                'count',
                NestedField('rates',
                            CustomizableField('average', decimalCount=2),
                            'highest', 'lowest'),
                fromRatingDate=date(2002, 10, 1)),
    fromReleaseDate=date(2000, 1, 1),
    fromPrice=Quote(150),
    discontinued=False,
    colors=NoQuote(['BLACK', 'WHITE', 'RED'])
)

"""
To get the query as a string, you can either do this:
"""

query_string1 = str(query)

"""
Or you can call `.generate()` on the query object:
"""

query_string2 = query.generate()

"""
If you pass the `endpoint` to the `GraphQL` initializer, you can 
call `.execute()` directly on the query object to call the remote API and get the result:
"""

result = query.execute()

"""
Note that if you have not passed the `endpoint` to the 
`GraphQL` initializer, by calling the `.execute()` function, an error will be raised.
"""

As shown in the example above, any operation available in the remote GraphQL API will be available as a function on the GraphQL object.

Example using generic query

If you want to dynamically generate GraphQL queries (.ex in an automated script, from user input, ...), you can do this with the following example, which will generate exactly the same GraphQL query:

from datetime import date
from grafliq.builder import GraphQL
from grafliq.query import NestedField, Quote, NoQuote, CustomizableField

query = GraphQL(
    endpoint='http://127.0.0.1:8080/graphql-api'
).query(
    'category',
    name='household-appliances'
).query(
    'electronics'
).query(
    'gaming_consoles',
    'brand', 'name', 'color', 'discontinued', 'release_date',
    CustomizableField('price', currency="euro"),
    NestedField('model',
                'name', 'version'),
    NestedField('customer_rating',
                'count',
                NestedField('rates',
                            CustomizableField('average', decimalCount=2),
                            'highest', 'lowest'),
                fromRatingDate=date(2002, 10, 1)),
    fromReleaseDate=date(2000, 1, 1),
    fromPrice=Quote(150),
    discontinued=False,
    colors=NoQuote(['BLACK', 'WHITE', 'RED'])
)

Contribute to Grafliq development

I appreciate any kind of contribution to the development of Grafliq, especially to add support for mutations and subscriptions.