kurumai

In this gist I would like to describe an idea for GraphQL subscriptions. It was inspired by conversations about subscriptions in the GraphQL slack channel and different GH issues, like #89 and #411.

Conceptual Model

At the moment GraphQL allows 2 types of queries:

• query
• mutation

Reference implementation also adds the third type: subscription. It does not have any semantics yet, so here I would like to propose one possible semantics interpretation and the reasoning behind it.

kurumai

# try at GitHub GraphQL explorer (https://developer.github.com/v4/explorer/)

{
  search(query: "Fujitsu K5", type: REPOSITORY, first: 5) {
    repositoryCount
    edges {
      node {
        ... on Repository {
          name,
          url,