Does Agile Central's next API version will be based GraphQL?

[sunka04]

There are products already front facing GraphQL for their APIs.

 

GitHub - APIs-guru/graphql-apis:    A collective list of public GraphQL APIs 

 

Does CA Agile Central have any plans to expose its API in a form of GraphQL?

[bulmi01]

morky01 or corkr03 This one may be in your wheelhouse... 

 

Michael

[morky01]

There aren't any plans at this time.  Are there specific problems with WSAPI that you think would be solved/made easier if we implemented a GraphQL API?

[sunka04]

Yup,

 

Of the three major problems, GraphQL solves, as an API consumer am facing the multiple HTTP calls to the server to get some particular data, average : 4 - 5 REST Calls to the Agile Central.

[morky01]

You can make multiple calls using the existing batch endpoint.  Unfortunately, this is not documented publicly yet, but you can use it today!  It's used for bulk edit/delete functionality in the product, but you can use it for issuing concurrent reads as well.

 

Just do a POST to /slm/webservice/v2.0/batch with this payload format:

 

{     Batch:  [         {             Entry: {                 Path: '/defect?fetch=Name&query=(Owner = /user/12345)',                 Method: 'GET'             }       },       {          Entry: {                 Path: '/hierarchicalrequirement?fetch=FormattedID',                 Method: 'GET'              }        },
       //additional entries...     ] }

 

The above example shows querying defects and stories in one request.

 

We've also discussed adding the sum/avg/count/(other aggregate operation) support into our fetch syntax.  I think this would be a great addition- hopefully I can explore this soon...