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| stage | group | description |
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| enablement | Tenant Scale | Cells: GraphQL |
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This document is a work-in-progress and represents a very early state of the Cells design. Significant aspects are not documented, though we expect to add them in the future. This is one possible architecture for Cells, and we intend to contrast this with alternatives before deciding which approach to implement. This documentation will be kept even if we decide not to implement this so that we can document the reasons for not choosing this approach.
Cells: GraphQL
GitLab extensively uses GraphQL to perform efficient data query operations.
GraphQL due to it's nature is not directly routable. The way how GitLab uses
it calls the /api/graphql endpoint, and only query or mutation of body request
might define where the data can be accessed.
1. Definition
2. Data flow
3. Proposal
There are at least two main ways to implement GraphQL in Cells architecture.
3.1. GraphQL routable by endpoint
Change /api/graphql to /api/organization/<organization>/graphql.
- This breaks all existing usages of
/api/graphqlendpoint since the API URI is changed.
3.2. GraphQL routable by body
As part of router parse GraphQL body to find a routable entity, like project.
- This still makes the GraphQL query be executed only in context of a given Cell and not allowing the data to be merged.
# Good example
{
project(fullPath:"gitlab-org/gitlab") {
id
description
}
}
# Bad example, since Merge Request is not routable
{
mergeRequest(id: 1111) {
iid
description
}
}
3.3. Merging GraphQL Proxy
Implement as part of router GraphQL Proxy which can parse body and merge results from many Cells.
- This might make pagination hard to achieve, or we might assume that we execute many queries of which results are merged across all Cells.
{
project(fullPath:"gitlab-org/gitlab"){
id, description
}
group(fullPath:"gitlab-com") {
id, description
}
}