Generates large files freezing Insomnia

[Flo]

Nice plugin!
Looks like there are some issues with recursive types however. I get many very large generated files which freeze Insomnia when opened.

[James Gatz]

Thanks 🙏
Do you have an example schema I could use to reproduce the behavior? Is it happening for any recursive type?

[James Gatz]

Got a repro by using GitHub's graphql api which takes too long making the app unresponsive

[Flo]

In the end it's more related to the complexity of graph structures. I guess we need to be able to limit the complexity of generated operations by a maximum depth/nesting setting, just like many servers do it for the queries they accept.

If the schema is very graph-like and contains many connections, all those references will just naturally create huge queries.

Try those harmless looking schemas... 😄

type type1 {
  id: String

  type1: type1
  type2: type2
  type3: type3
  type4: type4
  type5: type5
}

type type2 {
  id: String

  type1: type1
  type2: type2
  type3: type3
  type4: type4
  type5: type5
}

type type3 {
  id: String

  type1: type1
  type2: type2
  type3: type3
  type4: type4
  type5: type5
}

type type4 {
  id: String

  type1: type1
  type2: type2
  type3: type3
  type4: type4
  type5: type5
}

type type5 {
  id: String

  type1: type1
  type2: type2
  type3: type3
  type4: type4
  type5: type5
}

type Query {
  type1: type1
}

This combined with interfaces will especially blow up queries. Every implementation of the interface will be spread.

type type1 implements someInterface {
  id: String

  type1: type1
  type2: type2
  type3: type3
  type4: type4
  type5: type5
}

type type2 implements someInterface {
  id: String

  type1: type1
  type2: type2
  type3: type3
  type4: type4
  type5: type5
}

type type3 implements someInterface {
  id: String
  field(input: String): someInterface
}

type type4 implements someInterface {
  id: String
  field(input: String): someInterface
}

type type5 implements someInterface {
  id: String
  field(input: String): someInterface
}

type Query {
  query1: type1
  query2: someInterface
}

interface someInterface {
  id: String
}

[Flo]

In our case we had a document interface with 6 different document implementations.
But the document kept popping up everywhere... in client, order, position, user, etc. combined with some references between those types this completely blew up the generated queries.

[James Gatz]

I saw that unions generate a lot of content 😅
Could you check if this is fixed in the latest version? (retype insomnia-plugin-graphql-codegen-import in Preferences > Plugins in the app install)
I've removed the circular type generation and limited the depth.
Also made it so that the collection gets imported in chunks so insomnia can handle the load.
Not sure if there's a parser for GraphQL schemas that allows to parse in streaming mode but worth looking into for more perf in large schemas!

[Flo]

Tried 0.3.8, looks pretty good now!

However, two new issues I get:

• looks like arguments are still generated for circular types
• missing operations. I think it's quitting before it's finished. Might be related to the arguments. Is there a place I could look for error logs?

This schema will reproduce the issue with args.

type Type1 {
  id: String
  type2: Type2
  Type2Connection(arg: String): Type2
}

type Type2 {
  id: String

  type1: Type1
  type2: Type2
  type3: Type3
  type4: Type4
  type5: Type5
}

type Type3 {
  id: String

  type1: Type1
  type2: Type2
  type3: Type3
  type4: Type4
  type5: Type5
}

type Type4 {
  id: String

  type1: Type1
  type2: Type2
  type3: Type3
  type4: Type4
  type5: Type5
}

type Type5 {
  id: String

  type1: Type1
  type2: Type2
  type3: Type3
  type4: Type4
  type5: Type5
}

type Query {
  type1: Type1
}