Spring Boot GraphQL Schema Comment

GraphQL allows to addition of comments in schema declaration. Comments starts with # sign and are different than descriptions. Description can be accessed via introspection and is used to create documentation for the schema where as Comments are ignored in the documentation. 

package org.wesome.graphql.controllers;

import org.springframework.beans.factory.annotation.Autowired;
import org.springframework.graphql.data.method.annotation.QueryMapping;
import org.springframework.stereotype.Controller;
import org.wesome.graphql.entity.Apple;
import org.wesome.graphql.service.AppleService;

import java.util.List;

@Controller
public class AppleGraphQLController {
    @Autowired
    private AppleService appleService;

    @QueryMapping("findAllApple")
    List<Apple> findAllApple() {
        return appleService.findAllApple();
    }
}

package org.wesome.graphql.entity;

import lombok.AllArgsConstructor;
import lombok.Data;
import lombok.EqualsAndHashCode;

@Data
@EqualsAndHashCode
@AllArgsConstructor
public final class Apple {
    private int appleId;
    private String appleName;
    private Boolean available;
}

package org.wesome.graphql.service;

import org.wesome.graphql.entity.Apple;

import java.util.List;

public interface AppleService {
    List<Apple> findAllApple();
}

package org.wesome.graphql.service;

import org.springframework.stereotype.Service;
import org.wesome.graphql.entity.Apple;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

@Service
public class AppleServiceImpl implements AppleService {
    private static final List<Apple> apples = new ArrayList<>(List.of(new Apple(1, "macintosh", true), new Apple(2, "fuji", false), new Apple(3, "gala", true), new Apple(4, "jonagold", false)));

    @Override
    public List<Apple> findAllApple() {
        return apples;
    }
}

package org.wesome.graphql;

import org.springframework.boot.SpringApplication;
import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;

@SpringBootApplication
public class GraphqlProjectApplication {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        SpringApplication.run(GraphqlProjectApplication.class, args);
    }
}

\src\main\resources\graphql\schema.graphqls

#   Apple Object
type Apple{
    #   primary key of apple"
    appleId:ID
    #   available Boolean"
    available:Boolean
    #   apple Name"
    appleName:String
}

type Query{
    #   query to get all apples
    findAllApple:[Apple]
}

\src\main\resources\application.properties

spring.graphql.graphiql.enabled=true

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<project xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
         xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 https://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <parent>
        <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
        <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-parent</artifactId>
        <version>3.1.5</version>
        <relativePath/>
    </parent>
    <groupId>org.wesome</groupId>
    <artifactId>spring-boot-graphql</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-snapshot</version>
    <name>spring-boot-graphql</name>
    <description>implementing graphql in spring boot</description>
    <properties>
        <java.version>17</java.version>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-web</artifactId>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-graphql</artifactId>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>com.graphql-java</groupId>
            <artifactId>graphql-java-extended-scalars</artifactId>
            <version>21.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-boot-starter-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-webflux</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.springframework.graphql</groupId>
            <artifactId>spring-graphql-test</artifactId>
            <scope>test</scope>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.projectlombok</groupId>
            <artifactId>lombok</artifactId>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <plugins>
            <plugin>
                <groupId>org.springframework.boot</groupId>
                <artifactId>spring-boot-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            </plugin>
        </plugins>
    </build>
</project>

GraphiQL

GraphQL provides an inbuild UserInterface GraphiQL, which can be accessed via http://localhost:8080/graphiql or access GraphQL via Postman, in the query section add the below query

query FindAllApple {
    findAllApple {
        appleId
        available
        appleName
    }
}