Apollo-link-rest: Struggles with path params

[i-Hun]

I am tried to pass params to params argument like this:

query{
    tumblrPosts @rest(type: "TumblrPosts", path: "/posts", params: {api_key: $api_key, tag: $tag}) {
        response {
            posts {
                title,
                summary,
                body,
                type,
                post_url,
                tags
            }
        }
    }
}

But it did not work at all. Params did not pass to the request. The last variant works, but it looks not so nice:

query{
    tumblrPosts(api_key: $api_key, tag: $tag) @rest(type: "TumblrPosts", path: "/posts?api_key=:api_key&tag=:tag") {
        response {
            posts {
                title,
                summary,
                body,
                type,
                post_url,
                tags
            }
        }
    }
}

[fc]

Based on the example in the docs... pretty sure you need to define it as:

query GetTumblrPosts($api_key: String!, $tag: String!) {
...

[fbartho]

Hello @i-hun, your code example indeed is suggested by some of our docs. Unfortunately, we didn’t exactly get around to building that feature.

@fc’s advice is exactly how the system works today. You can merge both your examples:

query GetTumblrPosts($api_key: String!, $tag: String!) {
   tumblrPosts(api_key: $api_key, tag: $tag) @rest(type: "TumblrPosts", path: "/posts?api_key=:api_key&tag=:tag") {
        response {
            posts {
                title,
                summary,
                body,
                type,
                post_url,
                tags
            }
        }
    }
}

To both of you or anyone reading this, I’d love to get this fixed, as currently our API can’t unpack input types.

[fbartho]

I haven’t had any time recently to investigate how to implement unpacking. (Via params or other syntaxes that I’d be happy to document on request)

[paulpdaniels]

I think this should be fixed or may just be outdated since we now use the new param syntax.