GraphQL for Umbraco

What is this

An experimental implementation of GraphQL for Umbraco using GraphQL for .NET.

If you're interested in getting GraphQL into Umbraco Core please join the discussion on Our and on the issue tracker.

Please note this should not be used in production, since there are no security and all you data will be publicly available.

How does it work

An Owin middleware exposes Umbraco Published Content as a GraphQL endpoint.

GraphQL types are dynamically generated for all Umbraco document types (content and media), with all the properties as fields. They all implement an interface PublishedContent which implements the generic Umbraco properties as fields.

Installation

The preferred way to install GraphQL for Umbraco is through NuGet

Option 1: NuGet

GraphQL for Umbraco is available as a NuGet package.

To install run the following command in the Package Manager Console

PM> Install-Package Our.Umbraco.GraphQL

Option 2: From source

Clone the repository and run the Website (F5 in Visual Studio), install Umbraco with the starter kit and start exploring the API using GraphiQL by opening /umbraco/graphiql.

Urls

Url	Description
/umbraco/graphiql	GraphiQL interface
/umbraco/graphql	GraphQL endpoint
/umbraco/graphql/schema	The generated schema

Querying

Query examples based on The Starter Kit

{
  content {
    byType {
      People(id: "1116") {
        pageTitle
        _contentData {
          children {
            items {
              ... on Person {
                _contentData {
                  name
                }
                department
                photo {
                  _contentData {
                    url
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

We can also do some simple filtering and sorting, (Inspired by the Grahpcool filtering) like geting all children of people that starts with the letter J

{
  content {
    byType {
      People(id: "1116") {
        pageTitle
        _contentData {
          peopleStartsWithJ: children(filter: {name_starts_with: "J"}, orderBy: name_ASC) {
            items {
              ... on Person {
                _contentData {
                  name
                }
                department
                photo {
                  _contentData {
                    url
                  }
                }
              }
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

And even query for multiple types at the same time

{
  content {
    byType {
      People(id: "1116") {
        pageTitle
        _contentData {
          peopleStartsWithJ: children(filter: {name_starts_with: "J"}, orderBy: name_ASC) {
            items {
              ...SimplePerson
            }
          }
        }
      }
      Products(id: "1107") {
        pageTitle
        defaultCurrency
        featuredProducts {
          ...SimpleProduct
        }
        _contentData {
          children {
            items {
              ...SimpleProduct
            }
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

fragment SimplePerson on Person {
  _contentData {
    name
  }
  department
  photo {
    _contentData {
      url
    }
  }
}

fragment SimpleProduct on Product {
  _contentData {
    name
  }
  price
  sku
  photos {
    _contentData {
      url
    }
  }
}