Returning a 401 response

[basvandriel]

In addition too #1579 and this solution for Apollo Server; maybe it would be a handy feature too incorporate a 401 status error when writing auth middleware?

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[henrjk]

I have been looking at converting some existing code from starlette/graphene/fastapi to strawberry/fastapi.
I made great progress quickly and liked what I found. However I now hit this issue where the apps expect to get a 401 Unauthorized HTTP response, if the correct authorization header is missing. Here is our existing code which works like this (slightly shortened):

from fastapi import APIRouter, FastAPI, Request
from starlette.graphql import GraphQLApp

app = FastAPI()
router = APIRouter()

@router.api_route("/graphql", methods=["GET", "POST"])
async def _route_with_auth(request: Request):
    authenticate(request)  
    # ... authenticate() raises a HttpException(status_code=401) if the authorization header is not correct 
    return await GraphQLApp(schema=get_schema()).handle_graphql(
        request=request)
app.include_router(router, dependencies=[])

With strawberry I struggled for some time now and did not manage to get this working.
It would be very welcome if this could be supported!
Perhaps there is a workaround which I missed?