alt Hacker NewsBecause it solves all sorts of other problems, like having a well-defined way to specify the schema of queries and results, and lots of tools built around that.
I would be surprised to see many (or any) GQL endpoints in systems with significant complexity and scale that allow completely arbitrary requests.
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mattmanser • yesterday at 11:15 PM
OpenAPI does the same thing for http requests, with tooling around it.
With typed languages you can auto-generate OpenAPI schemas from your code.
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Shopify's GraphQL API limits you in complexity (essentially max number of fields returned), but it's basically arbitrary shapes.