Graphql Api Chuck Norris - apollo-server

Question

I need help building a GraphQL Api that wraps the ChuckNorris.io API
The API sholud have aQuery type that resolves all Categories
(https://api.chuckmorris.io/jokes/categories)
The Api should have Query type that resolves a random joke given as an argument (https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random?category={category})
const express=require('express');
const {ApolloServer,gql}=require('apollo-server-express');
const fetch=require('node-fetch');
const typeDefs=gql`
type Joke{
icon_url:String,
id:String,
url:String
value: String
}
type Category{
animal:String
career:String
celebrity:String
dev:String
explicit:String
fashion:String
food:String
history:String
money:String
movie:String
music:String
political:Strig
religion:String
science:String
sport:String
travel:String
}
type Query{
getCategory(category:String!):Joke
category:Category
}
`
const resolvers={
Query:{
getCategory: async(_,{category})=>{
const response=await fetch(`https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/random?category=${category}`)
return response.json();
},
category: async(_,{})=>{
const response=await fetch('https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes/categories')
return response.json();
}
}
}
const server= new ApolloServer({typeDefs,resolvers});
const app=express();
server.applyMiddleware({app});
app.listen({port:4000},()=>
console.log('Now browse to http://localhost:4000' + server.graphqlPath)
)

Answer 1

your query for type category should return a list of strings (array)
so
export const typeDefs = gql`
type Joke {
value: String!
id:ID!
icon_url:String!
}
type Query {
getAllCategories:[String!]!
randomJoke(category: String!):Joke
}
`;
for your resolver, you don't need fetch. apollo provides datasources to connect to external REST APIs like the one you have.
so install the npm package "apollo-datasource-rest" and add it to your instance of apollo server like so
const server = new ApolloServer({
typeDefs,
resolvers,
dataSources: ()=>({
jokeinstance : new Jokenorris
})
})
then create the datasource class for Jokenorris and import appropriately or do everything in one src file as you did.
import pkg from "apollo-datasource-rest";
const { RESTDataSource } = pkg;
export class Jokenorris extends RESTDataSource {
constructor() {
super();
this.baseURL = "https://api.chucknorris.io/jokes";
}
async getAllCategories() {
const res = await this.get("categories");
return res;
}
async getRandomJoke({ category }) {
const response = await this.get("random", { category: category });
return response;
}
}
then your resolveer can look like so, you can ignore the exports and imports if you chunked everything in one file
export const resolvers = {
Query: {
allJokeCategories: (_, __, { dataSources }) =>
dataSources.jokeinstance.getAllCategories(),
randomJoke: (_, {category}, {dataSources})=>
dataSources.jokeinstance.getRandomJoke({category:category})
},
};