[TODO] [question] repurposing protobuf-nim for a native graphql-nim parser?

@PMunch just curious what are your thoughts on this, sorry it's not related to protobuf proper.

graphql seems like the future for web services, advantageously replacing REST in most use cases; unfortunately all I could find is this project https://github.com/samdmarshall/GraphQL.nim that wraps around C++ libgraphqlparser wrapping around libgraphqlparser doesn't lead to ease of use for user code, leading to lots of boilerplate code; ideally using graphql and parsing schema and queries should be as simple as in javascript via a DSL (eg https://graphql.org/graphql-js/).

I'm wondering whether a new protobuf-nim could serve as basis for a new graphql-nim project that would have same principles and ease of use as protobuf-nim (in particular compile time parsing). eg:

var { graphql, buildSchema } = require('graphql');

// Construct a schema, using GraphQL schema language
var schema = buildSchema(`
  type Query {
    hello: String
  }
`);

// The root provides a resolver function for each API endpoint
var root = {
  hello: () => {
    return 'Hello world!';
  },
};

// Run the GraphQL query '{ hello }' and print out the response
graphql(schema, '{ hello }', root).then((response) => {
  console.log(response);
});

import graphql

# Construct a schema, using GraphQL schema language
const schema = """
  type Query {
    hello: String
  }
""".buildSchema

# The root provides a resolver function for each API endpoint
proc hello(): auto=
    return "Hello world!"

# Run the GraphQL query '{ hello }' and print out the response
let resp = graphql(schema, """{ hello }""")
assert resp.errors == nil
assert resp.data.$ == """{ data: { hello: 'Hello world!' } }"""

links

https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/3321 GraphQL? https://github.com/samdmarshall/GraphQL.nim/issues/1 https://github.com/graphql-python/graphene/blob/master/examples/simple_example.py python API https://graphql.org/graphql-js/ javascript API

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