Building a GraphQL application
GraphQL is a mechanism that provides a platform-agnostic CRUD transaction across the applications without specifying the actual database connectivity details and database dialects. This mechanism is model-centric or data-centric and focuses on the data the users want to fetch through the backend API implementations.
Our microservice designed the Flask sub-application to be a GraphQL application with the following HTTP GET endpoint that creates the GraphQL UI explorer:
from ariadne.explorer import ExplorerGraphiQL
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flask_sub_app = create_app_sub("../config_dev_sub.toml")
CORS(flask_sub_app)
explorer_html = ExplorerGraphiQL().html(None)
@flask_sub_app.route("/graphql", methods=["GET"])
def graphql_explorer():
return explorer_html, 200 Our solution used the Ariadne module because it is updated and can integrate with Flask 3.x components. Figure...
