How to easily add a GraphQL interface to the public REST API of your Mojolicious application

During the Mojolicious 2017 Advent calendar series, we looked at how to build a public REST API using Mojolicious. A technology that is getting a lot of buzz is GraphQL. Now that it has been ported to Perl 5, what if there were an easy way to let people access your API using it?

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The OpenAPI Specification (formerly named Swagger) is an API description format for REST APIs. An API specification written using the the rules set by the Open API Initiative can be used to describe:

• All the available endpoints. An endpoint is a unique resource that can access or modify a given object.
• Input parameters, such as headers, query parameters and/or body parameters.
• The structure of the response, including headers status codes and the body - if any.
• Authentication methods
• Contact information, license, terms of use and other information

This post look into how to write an API specification and how to use it together with Mojolicious::Plugin::OpenAPI and OpenAPI::Client.

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