Usage with fastify middleware

[taneba]

Is there a way to make sendResult work with fastify middleware?

for example:

const app = fastify()
app.register(fastifyCors)
app.route({
  method: ['GET', 'POST'],
  url: '/graphql',
  hanlder: async (req,res) => {
    //...
    const result = processRequest({...})
    sendRequest(request, res.raw)
  }
})

In the code above, I want fastifyCors to add access-control-allow-origin header to the response, but it won't.
I'm not completely sure but is that because sendResult is handling "RawResponse" rather than "Response" which is extended by fastify?

[dotansimha]

Hi @taneba ,
Thanks for reaching out. Currently, sendResult is using the raw request because we wanted it to be agnostic to the HTTP server.
I think in cases where you want to use different setup, you might need to use the code from sendResult and adjust to to your needs (and use fastify and not the raw HTTP).

I'm not sure how to address this, because it seems specific for fastify?

@n1ru4l thoughts?

[taneba]

@dotansimha
Thank you for elaborating that and it makes sense to keep it framework agnostic.

How about taking an approach like what graphql-ws is doing, which is to have a helper function for certain library.

Their example for fastify:

import Fastify from 'fastify'; // yarn add fastify
import fastifyWebsocket from 'fastify-websocket'; // yarn add fastify-websocket
import { makeHandler } from 'graphql-ws/lib/use/fastify-websocket';
import { schema } from './previous-step';

const fastify = Fastify();
fastify.register(fastifyWebsocket);

fastify.get('/graphql', { websocket: true }, makeHandler({ schema }));

fastify.listen(4000, (err) => {
  if (err) {
    fastify.log.error(err);
    return process.exit(1);
  }
  console.log('Listening to port 4000');
});

[dotansimha]

Just to mention that we had a similar issue today, with fastify-cors. The headers set by this plugin was added to the fastify.reply and not to fastify.reply.raw, and sendNodeResult was ignoring those.

Doing that before calling sendNodeResult should work as a temporary workaround:

for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(res.getHeaders())) {
  res.raw.setHeader(key, String(value || ''))
}

[n1ru4l]

I checked out how different plugins handle sending responses with res.raw.write:

https://github.com/NodeFactoryIo/fastify-sse-v2/blob/b1686a979fbf655fb9936c0560294a0c094734d4/src/plugin.ts#L6-L21

export const plugin: FastifyPluginAsync<SsePluginOptions> = async function(
  instance,
  options
): Promise<void> {
  instance.decorateReply("sse", function(
    this: FastifyReply,
    source: AsyncIterable<EventMessage>
  ): void {
    Object.entries(this.getHeaders()).forEach(([key, value]) => {
      this.raw.setHeader(key, value);
    });
    this.raw.setHeader("Content-Type", "text/event-stream");
    this.raw.setHeader("Connection", "keep-alive");
    this.raw.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache,no-transform");
    this.raw.setHeader("x-no-compression", 1);
    this.raw.write(serializeSSEEvent({ retry: options.retryDelay || 3000 }));
    toStream(transformAsyncIterable(source)).pipe(this.raw);
  });
};

The solution you proposed @dotansimha seems to be the correct one!

---

We should probably only give users the headers and the payload. The responsibility for glueing that to the framework of their choice should be more or less straightforward and can be guided with tutorials, recipes and example applications.

One of the main reasons why we added these helpers was boilerplate code we had to write over and over again for the multi-part protocol. Now we realize that we tried to own too much...

Instead of owning the whole pipeline we could only have helper functions for formatting the payload into the desired protocol and yield the string partials to the user:

async function* multiPartProtocol(
  source: AsyncIterable<ExecutionResult>,
  transformResult: TransformResultFn
) {
  yield "---";
  for await (const result of source) {
    const chunk = Buffer.from(JSON.stringify(transformResult(result)), "utf8");
    const data = [
      "",
      "Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8",
      "Content-Length: " + String(chunk.length),
      "",
      chunk
    ];

    if (result.hasNext) {
      data.push("---");
    }
    yield "\r\n";
  }
  yield "\r\n-----\r\n";
}

async function* sseProtocol(
  source: AsyncIterable<ExecutionResult>,
  transformResult: TransformResultFn
) {
  for await (const result of source) {
    yield `data: ${JSON.stringify(transformResult(result))}\n\n`;
  }
}

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Furthermore, I spotted that Fastify can handle stream payloads 🤔 https://github.com/fastify/fastify/blob/0439d5ffcab1709659353e8633a9a1ff36595c22/lib/reply.js#L426-L431

SO maybe the result returned from processRequest, could implement that interface (if it is a stream response and not only a single payload). Then for fastify we actually might not need to use res.raw at all!

From a user-land perspective the code would look like this:

app.route({
  method: ["GET", "POST"],
  url: "/graphql",
  async handler(req, res) {
    const request = {
      body: req.body,
      headers: req.headers,
      method: req.method,
      query: req.query,
    };

    if (shouldRenderGraphiQL(request)) {
      res.type("text/html");
      res.send(renderGraphiQL({}));
    } else {
      const request = {
        body: req.body,
        headers: req.headers,
        method: req.method,
        query: req.query,
      };
      const { operationName, query, variables } = getGraphQLParameters(request);
      const { headers, source } = await processRequest({
        operationName,
        query,
        variables,
        request,
        schema,
      });

      // headers determined by helix
      for (const header of headers) {
        res.setHeader(header.key, header.value)
      }
      // source is a stream or string
      res.send(source)
    }
  },
});

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There is still an open question for me: Should we even tell people what headers/protocols they should use? #161

[ricardo-valero]

I'm a bit biased because it's what I'm using right now, but check out graphql-ez it uses graphql-helix and has several integrations, not only for fastify, but express, koa and more.

Here's the fastify integration

Hope it helps in some way!

[jetaggart]

Any further thoughts on this? This was incredible confusing to figure out. I'm using fastify-cors and this took hours to figure out that the helix setup was swallowing the headers. @dotansimha answer worked for me!