node-froid: NodeJS - Federated Relay Object Identification

Table of Contents

• About The Project
  • The problem
  • The solution
• Getting Started
• Library API
  • handleFroidRequest
  • generateFroidSchema
• Usage
  • id Processing
  • Custom GraphQL Gateway Datasource
  • Custom GraphQL Gateway Datasource w/Encryption
  • Custom GraphQL Gateway Datasource w/Cache
  • Subgraph w/Express Server
  • Schema Generation
  • Basic Script
• Roadmap
• Contributing
• License
• Contact
• Acknowledgements

About The Project

The problem

There isn't good support for the Relay's [Object Identification] spec in the Federated GraphQL ecosystem. This makes it difficult to support common patterns used to refetch objects from your graph to power things like cache TTLs and cache-miss hydration.

The solution

@wayfair/node-froid provides two key pieces of functionality:

• id processing: a solution that can be used to run inline as part of a custom [Data Source] or as a completely separate subgraph (recommended) dedicated to service your object identification implementation .
• schema generation: a schema generation script that reflects on all subgraphs in your federated graph and generates a valid relay object identification schema.
  • Can run in Federation v1 or v2 mode
  • Supports contracts!

Getting Started

To get a local copy up and running follow these simple steps.

Installation

This module is distributed via npm which is bundled with node and should be installed as one of your project's direct dependencies:

npm install @wayfair/node-froid

or

for installation via yarn

yarn add @wayfair/node-froid

This library has peerDependencies listings for graphql and graphql-relay.

Library API

handleFroidRequest

Returns Promise<object[]>: A promise representing the list of entity objects containing a relay-spec compliant id value.

generateFroidSchema

Returns DocumentNode[]: The froid schema

Usage

id Processing

Custom GraphQL Gateway Datasource

import {GraphQLDataSourceProcessOptions} from '@apollo/gateway';
import {GraphQLResponse} from 'apollo-server-types';
import {handleFroidRequest} from '@wayfair/node-froid';
import {Context} from './path/to/your/ContextType';

class FroidDataSource {
  process({
    request,
  }: Pick<
    GraphQLDataSourceProcessOptions<Context>,
    'request'
  >): Promise<GraphQLResponse> {
    return await handleFroidRequest(request);
  }
}

Custom GraphQL Gateway Datasource w/Encryption

// Datasource Implementation
import {GraphQLDataSourceProcessOptions} from '@apollo/gateway';
import {GraphQLResponse} from 'apollo-server-types';
import {
  DecodeCallback,
  EncodeCallback,
  handleFroidRequest,
} from '@wayfair/node-froid';
// You only really need this if you are using context
import {Context} from './path/to/your/ContextType';
// Used to determine which encoder to use
import {FeatureToggleManager} from './path/to/your/FeatureToggleManager';

// Interface we need to match properly encode key values
interface Encoder {
  encode: EncodeCallback;
  decode: DecodeCallback;
}

class FroidLDataSource {
  private encoder1: Encoder;
  private encoder2: Encoder;

  // Take two encoders to support live key rotation
  constructor(encoder1: Encoder, encoder2, Encoder) {
    this.encoder1 = encoder1;
    this.encoder2 = encoder2;
  }

  process({
    request,
  }: Pick<
    GraphQLDataSourceProcessOptions<Context>,
    'request'
  >): Promise<GraphQLResponse> {
    const encoder = FeatureToggleManager.useEncoder1()
      ? this.encoder1
      : this.encoder2;

    return await handleFroidRequest(request, {...encoder});
  }
}

// Sample Encoder
import crypto from 'crypto';
import {DecodeCallback, EncodeCallback} from '@wayfair/node-froid';

const ENCRYPTION_ALGORITHM = 'aes-256-cbc';

// Interface we need to match properly encode key values
interface Encoder {
  encode: EncodeCallback;
  decode: DecodeCallback;
}

type CreateEncoderArguments = {
  base64InitializationVector: string;
  base64EncryptionKey: string;
};

export class CustomEncoder implements Encoder {
  private iv: Buffer;
  private key: Buffer;

  constructor({
    base64InitializationVector,
    base64EncryptionKey,
  }: CreateEncoderArguments) {
    this.iv = Buffer.from(base64InitializationVector, 'base64');
    this.key = Buffer.from(base64EncryptionKey, 'base64');
  }

  public encode(value: string): string {
    const cipher = crypto.createCipheriv(
      ENCRYPTION_ALGORITHM,
      this.key,
      this.iv
    );
    const encryptedValue = cipher.update(value);
    const encryptedBuffer = Buffer.concat([encryptedValue, cipher.final()]);

    return encryptedBuffer.toString('base64');
  }

  public decode(value: string): object {
    const decipher = crypto.createDecipheriv(
      ENCRYPTION_ALGORITHM,
      this.key,
      this.iv
    );
    const decryptedValue = decipher.update(Buffer.from(value, 'base64'));
    const decryptedBuffer = Buffer.concat([decryptedValue, decipher.final()]);

    return decryptedBuffer.toString();
  }
}

Custom GraphQL Gateway Datasource w/Cache

import {GraphQLDataSourceProcessOptions} from '@apollo/gateway';
import {GraphQLResponse} from 'apollo-server-types';
import {handleRelayRequest} from '@wayfair/node-froid';
import {Context} from './path/to/your/ContextType';
import LRU from 'lru-cache';

const cache = new LRU({max: 500});

class RelayNodeGraphQLDataSource {
  process({
    request,
  }: Pick<
    GraphQLDataSourceProcessOptions<Context>,
    'request'
  >): Promise<GraphQLResponse> {
    return await handleRelayRequest(request, {
      cache,
    });
  }
}

Subgraph w/Express Server

import express from 'express';
import bodyParser from 'body-parser';
import {handleFroidRequest} from '@wayfair/node-froid';

const port = process.env.PORT || 5000;

const app = express();
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({extended: false}));
app.use(bodyParser.json());

// No need to run a full GraphQL server.
// Avoid the additional overhead and manage the route directly instead!
app.post('/graphql', async (req, res) => {
  const result = await handleFroidRequest(req.body);
  res.send(result);
});

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Froid subgraph listening on port ${port}`);
});

Schema Generation

Basic Script

import fs from 'fs';
import {print} from 'graphql';
import {generateFroidSchema} from '@wayfair/node-froid';
// You have to provide this. Apollo's public API should provide the ability to extract out subgraph SDL
import {getFederatedSchemas} from './getFederatedSchemas';

const froidSubgraphName = 'froid-service';
const variant = 'current';

// Map<string, string> where the key is the subgraph name, and the value is the SDL schema
const subgraphSchemaMap = getFederatedSchemas(variant);

const schemaAst = generateFroidSchema(subgraphSchemaMap, froidSubgraphName);

// persist results to a file to use with rover publish
fs.writeFileSync('schema.graphql', print(schemaAst));

Roadmap

See the open issues for a list of proposed features (and known issues).

Contributing

Contributions are what make the open source community such an amazing place to learn, inspire, and create. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. For detailed contributing guidelines, please see CONTRIBUTING.md

License

Distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.

Contact

• Mark Faga: Twitter

Project Link: https://github.com/wayfair-incubator/node-froid

Acknowledgements

This template was adapted from https://github.com/othneildrew/Best-README-Template.

[object identification]: https://relay.dev/docs/guides/graphql-server-specification/#object-identification [data source]: https://www.apollographql.com/docs/apollo-server/data/data-sources/