import ballerina/graphql;

// This service has multiple resources with hierarchical resource paths.
// The root operation has a field named `profile` and it is the first segment
// of the hierarchical path in this service. The type of this field will also
// be `profile`. (For hierarchical paths, the field name and the type name will
// be the same). The `profile` type has two fields: `quote` and `name`. The
// type of the `quote` field is `String` and the type of the `name` field is
// `name`. The `name` type has two fields:`first` and the `last`. Both of the
// fields are of type `String`.
service /graphql on new graphql:Listener(4000) {

    // This resource represents the `quote` field under the `profile` object.
    resource function get profile/quote() returns string {
        return "I am the one who knocks!";
    }

    // This resource represents the `first` field under the `name` object type.
    // The `name` field in the `profile` object is of type `name`.
    resource function get profile/name/first() returns string {
        return "Walter";
    }

    // This resource represents the `last` field under the `name` object type.
    // The `name` field in the `profile` object is of type `name`.
    resource function get profile/name/last() returns string {
        return "White";
    }
}

Hierarchical Resource Paths

The resources in Ballerina GraphQL services can have hierarchical resource paths. When a hierarchical path is present, an OBJECT type is created for each intermediate path segment with the same name. Every sub path under a path segment will be added as a field of the created type.

For more information on the underlying package, see the graphql package.

This example shows a GraphQL endpoint, which has a profile field of type Person. A GraphQL client can query this service to retrieve specific fields or subfields of the Person object.

 
import ballerina/graphql;

service /graphql on new graphql:Listener(4000) {

This service has multiple resources with hierarchical resource paths. The root operation has a field named profile and it is the first segment of the hierarchical path in this service. The type of this field will also be profile. (For hierarchical paths, the field name and the type name will be the same). The profile type has two fields: quote and name. The type of the quote field is String and the type of the name field is name. The name type has two fields:first and the last. Both of the fields are of type String.

 
    resource function get profile/quote() returns string {
        return "I am the one who knocks!";
    }

This resource represents the quote field under the profile object.

 
    resource function get profile/name/first() returns string {
        return "Walter";
    }

This resource represents the first field under the name object type. The name field in the profile object is of type name.

 
    resource function get profile/name/last() returns string {
        return "White";
    }
}

This resource represents the last field under the name object type. The name field in the profile object is of type name.

 
bal run graphql_hierarchical_resource_paths.bal
[ballerina/http] started HTTP/WS listener 0.0.0.0:4000

# Send a query to the GraphQL endpoint using a cURL command.
# The query used: { profile { quote name { first } } }
curl -X POST -H "Content-type: application/json" -d '{ "query": "{ profile { quote name { first } } }" }' 'http://localhost:4000/graphql'
{"data":{"profile":{"quote":"I am the one who knocks!", "name":{"first":"Walter"}}}}