- Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/markmeleka/graphql_api_poc.git
- Create virtualenv and install package dependencies in requirements.txt
virtualenv envsource env/bin/activatepip install -r requirements.txt
- Create dummy data
- In the virtualenv run
python create_dummy_data.py
- In the virtualenv run
- Run the GraphQL app
python app.py- The app should be running at localhost:5000/graphql
- You can add an employee ("createEmployee") and list all existing employees ("allEmployees").
- You can list the employees page-by-page.
- Pagination works using the "first" argument combined with the "goToPage" argument.
- I didn't implement pagination via an offset.
- Total number of pages can be seen with the "numPages" field.
- Doesn't work with "after" argument.
- Current page can be seen with the "currentPage" field.
- Doesn't work with "after" argument.
- Go to nth page with the "goToPage" argument.
- Doesn't work with "after" argument.
- Sort by variable name with the "sortBy" argument. ie. sortBy: "department.name"
- I had trouble finding the right way to sort by department salary, but I implemented a hacky patch for the meantime.
- It's manually tested. There's probably many more edge cases I could have tried and exception handling I could have written.
- I started writing tests but stopped.
- I was going to experiment with Snapshot tests but stopped.
- Pagination works using the "first" argument combined with the "goToPage" argument.