8.0.0 🎉

[mfn]

After quite some RC cycles, the next major release finally arrived!

Note: this new release contains a LOT of BREAKING CHANGES, please make sure to review the change changelog and test before you deploy!

High level changes:

• routing has been rewritten/simplified
• processing of GraphQL requests has been unified to better accommodate for optional features like Automatic Persisted Queries (APQ)
• lots-o-breaking changes and clean ups
• Support for Lumen has been removed

Please find all the details below:

Breaking changes

• Rewrite and simplify how schemas are handled

  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::$schemas now only holds Schemas and not a
    mixture of strings or arrays
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::schema() now only accepts a "schema name", but no
    ad hoc Schema or "schema configs". To use ad hoc schemas, use
    \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::buildSchemaFromConfig() and
    \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::addSchema()
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::queryAndReturnResult() (and thus also
    \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::query()) does not accept ad hoc schemas via
    $opts['schema'] anymore; it now only can reference a schema via its name.
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::addSchema() now only accept Schema objects,
    where before it would support ad hoc schemas via array configuration.
    Use \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::buildSchemaFromConfig() for that now.
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::getSchemaConfiguration() has been removed due to
    the simplifications.
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::getNormalizedSchemaConfiguration() does not
    support ad hoc schemas anymore and only accepts the schema name.
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQLServiceProvider::bootSchemas() has been removed due
    to the simplifications.

• The following methods now take a \Illuminate\Contracts\Config\Repository as
  second argument:

  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::__construct
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQLServiceProvider::applySecurityRules

• As part of moving the architecture to an execution based middleware approach,
  the following methods have been removed:

  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQLController::handleAutomaticPersistQueries has been
    replaced by the AutomaticPersistedQueriesMiddleware middleware
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQLController::queryContext has been
    replaced by the AddAuthUserContextValueMiddleware middleware
    If you relied on overriding queryContext to inject a custom context, you
    now need to create your own execution middleware and add to your
    configuration
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQLController::executeQuery has become obsolete, no
    direct replacement.

• Routing has been rewritten and simplified #757 / mfn

  • All routing related configuration is now within the top level route
    configuration key
  • The following configuration options have been removed:
    • graphql.routes
      It's therefore also not possible anymore to register different routes for
      queries and mutations within a schema. Each schema gets only one route
      (except for the default schema, which is registered for the global prefix
      route as well as under its name).
      If necessary, this can be emulated with different schemas and multi-level
      paths
  • The following configuration options have been moved/renamed:
    • graphql.prefix => graphql.route.prefix
    • graphql.controllers => graphql.route.controller
      Further, providing a controller action for query or mutation is not
      supported anymore.
    • graphql.middleware => graphql.route.middleware
    • graphql.route_group_attributes => graphql.route.group_attributes
  • The actual routes defined have changed:
    • No more separate routes for the HTTP methods
    • 1 route for each schema + 1 route for the group prefix (default schema)
    • If GraphiQL is enabled: 1 route graphiql route for each schema + 1 for the
      graphiql group prefix (default schema)
    • If provided, the 'method' argument must provide the HTTP method
      verbs in uppercase like POST or GET, post or get will not work.
  • It's now possible to prevent the registering of any routes by making the top
    level route an empty array or null
  • \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL::routeNameTransformer has been removed
  • It's now possible to register schemas with a - in their name
  • Routes are now properly cacheable

• Remove the \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQLController::$app property #755 / mfn
  Injecting the application container early is incompatible when running within
  an application server like laravel/octane, as it's not guaranteed that the
  container received contains all the bindings. If you relied on this property
  when extending the classes, invoke the container directly via
  Container::getInstance().

• Remove deprecated \Rebing\GraphQL\Support\Type::$inputObject and \Rebing\GraphQL\Support\Type::$enumObject properties #752 / mfn
  Instead in your code, extend \Rebing\GraphQL\Support\InputType and \Rebing\GraphQL\Support\EnumType directly

• Support for Lumen has been removed

• Integrate laragraph/utils RequestParser #739 / mfn
  The parsing of GraphQL requests is now more strict:

  • if you send a GET request, the GraphQL query has to be in the query parameters
  • if you send a POST request, the GraphQL query needs to be in the body
    Mixing of either isn't possible anymore
  • batched queries will only work with POST requests
    This is due to RequestParser using \GraphQL\Server\Helper::parseRequestParams which includes this check
    Further:
  • Drop support for configuration the name of the variable for the variables (params_key)
  • GraphQLUploadMiddleware has been removed (RequestParser includes this functionality)
  • Empty GraphQL queries now return a proper validated GraphQL error

• In \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL, renamed remaining instances of $params to $variables
  After switching to RequestParser, the support for changing the variable name
  what was supposed to params_key has gone and thus the name isn't fitting anymore.
  Also, the default value for $variables has been changed to null to better
  fit the how OperationParams works:

  • old: public function query(string $query, ?array $params = [], array $opts = []): array
    new: public function query(string $query, ?array $variables = null, array $opts = []): array

  • old: public function queryAndReturnResult(string $query, ?array $params = [], array $opts = []): ExecutionResult
    new: public function queryAndReturnResult(string $query, ?array $variables = null, array $opts = []): ExecutionResult

  • \Rebing\GraphQL\Support\ResolveInfoFieldsAndArguments has been removed

  • $getSelectFields closure no longer takes a depth parameter

• The $args argument, of the handle method of the execution middlewares requires array as type.

Added

• Command to make an execution middleware #772 / mfn
• Command to make a schema configuration #830 / matsn0w
• The primary execution of the GraphQL request is now piped through middlewares #762 / crissi and mfn
  This allows greater flexibility for enabling/disabling certain functionality
  as well as bringing in new features without having to open up the library.
• Primarily register \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQL as service and keep 'graphql' as alias #768 / mfn
• Automatic Persisted Queries (APQ) now cache the parsed query #740 / mfn
  This avoids having to re-parse the same queries over and over again.
• Add ability to detect unused GraphQL variables #660 / mfn
• Laravel's ValidationException is now formatted the same way as a ValidationError #748 / mfn
• A few missing typehints (mostly array related) #849 / mfn

Changed

• Internally webonyx query plan feature is now used for retrieving information about a query #793 / crissi)
• Rewrite and simplify how schemas are handled #779 / mfn
• Internally stop using the global config() function and preferable use the repository or the Facade otherwise #774 / mfn
• Don't silence broken schemas when normalizing them for generating routes #766 / mfn
• Lazy loading types has been enabled by default #758 / mfn
• Make it easier to extend select fields #799 / crissi
• The $args argument, of the handle method of the execution middlewares requires array as type #843 / sforward
• Embrace thecodingmachine/safe and use thecodingmachine/phpstan-safe-rule to enforce it #851 / mfn
• Don't require a return value for the query option of fields #856 / sforward

Fixed

• Fix TypeNotFound when an interface defined after another type where it is used #828 / kasian-sergeev

Removed

• The method \Rebing\GraphQL\GraphQLServiceProvider::provides was removed #769 / mfn
  It's only relevant for deferred providers which ours however isn't (and can't
  be made into with the current Laravel architecture).

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This discussion was created from the release 8.0.0 🎉.

[mfn]

Note: I did my best to provide a healthy release, but the amount of (also breaking) changes isn't easy to swallow at first!

I did test drive the 8 cycle from day 0 also in production to find edge cases not covered in tests, but despite the necessary BC changes this has looked good so far.

But again, it's possible something has slipped thus please ask any question here or report bugs via issues https://github.com/rebing/graphql-laravel/issues

Thanks 🙏🏼

[mnogokotin]

wow, great )