Allow compatibility when using introspection derived client schema's

docs/FAQ.md

@@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ bindings:
 
 Or, you can bind it to any other type, perhaps one with size-checked constructors; see the [`genqlient.yaml` documentation](genqlient.yaml) for more details.
 
-### … let me json-marshal my response objects
+### … let me json-marshal my response objects?
 
 This is supported by default!  All genqlient-generated types support both JSON-marshaling and unmarshaling, which can be useful for putting them in a cache, inspecting them by hand, using them in mocks (although this is [not recommended](#-test-my-graphql-apis)), or anything else you can do with JSON.  It's not guaranteed that marshaling a genqlient type will produce the exact GraphQL input -- we try to get as close as we can but there are some limitations around Go zero values -- but unmarshaling again should produce the value genqlient returned.  That is:
 
@@ -109,6 +109,42 @@ var respAgain MyQueryResponse
 err := json.Unmarshal(b, &resp)
 ```
 
+### … let me use introspection to fetch my client schema?
+
+This is currently not supported by default. You can however use a tool such as [gqlfetch](https://github.com/suessflorian/gqlfetch) to build your client schema using introspection and then let `genqlient` continue from there. Moreover, you can define yourself what happens when `go:generate` is run via managing your own _go runnable_ progam.
+
+For example - suppose the file `generate/main.go`;
+
+```go
+package main
+
+import (
+	"context"
+	"fmt"
+	"os"
+
+	"github.com/Khan/genqlient/generate"
+	"github.com/suessflorian/gqlfetch"
+)
+
+func main() {
+	schema, err := gqlfetch.BuildClientSchema(context.Background(), "http://localhost:8080/query")
+	if err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	if err = os.WriteFile("schema.graphql", []byte(schema), 0644); err != nil {
+		fmt.Println(err)
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+
+	generate.Main()
+}
+```
+
+This can now be invoked upon `go generate` via `//go:generate yourpkg/generate`.
+
 ## How do I make a query with …
 
 ### … a specific name for a field?

generate/parse.go

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ import (
 
 	"github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2"
 	"github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2/ast"
+	"github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2/gqlerror"
 	"github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2/parser"
 	"github.com/vektah/gqlparser/v2/validator"
 )
@@ -31,9 +32,19 @@ func getSchema(globs StringList) (*ast.Schema, error) {
 		sources[i] = &ast.Source{Name: filename, Input: string(text)}
 	}
 
-	schema, graphqlError := gqlparser.LoadSchema(sources...)
+	// Multi step schema validation
+	// Step 1 assume schema implicitly declares types that are required by the graphql spec
+	// Step 2 assume schema explicitly declares types that are required by the graphql spec
+	var (
+		schema       *ast.Schema
+		graphqlError *gqlerror.Error
+	)
+	schema, graphqlError = gqlparser.LoadSchema(sources...)
 	if graphqlError != nil {
-		return nil, errorf(nil, "invalid schema: %v", graphqlError)
+		schema, graphqlError = validator.LoadSchema(sources...)
+		if graphqlError != nil {
+			return nil, errorf(nil, "invalid schema: %v", graphqlError)
+		}
 	}
 
 	return schema, nil