apollo-upload-client

Enhances Apollo for intuitive file uploads via GraphQL queries or mutations. Use with a GraphQL multipart request spec server implementation such as apollo-upload-server.

Setup

Install with peer dependencies using npm:

npm install apollo-upload-client apollo-link

Initialize Apollo Client with this terminating link:

import { createUploadLink } from 'apollo-upload-client'

const link = createUploadLink(/* Options */)

Options

createUploadLink options match createHttpLink options:

• includeExtensions (boolean): Toggles sending extensions fields to the GraphQL server. (default: false).
• uri (string): GraphQL endpoint URI (default: /graphql).
• credentials (string): Overrides fetchOptions.credentials.
• headers (object): Merges with and overrides fetchOptions.headers.
• fetchOptions (object): fetch init; overridden by upload requirements.
• fetch (function): Fetch API to use (default: Global fetch).

Usage

Use FileList, File, Blob or ReactNativeFile instances anywhere within query or mutation input variables to send a GraphQL multipart request. See also apollo-upload-server usage and the example API and client.

FileList

import gql from 'graphql-tag'
import { graphql } from 'react-apollo'

export default graphql(gql`
  mutation($files: [Upload!]!) {
    uploadFiles(files: $files) {
      id
    }
  }
`)(({ mutate }) => (
  <input
    type="file"
    multiple
    required
    onChange={({ target: { validity, files } }) =>
      validity.valid && mutate({ variables: { files } })
    }
  />
))

File

import gql from 'graphql-tag'
import { graphql } from 'react-apollo'

export default graphql(gql`
  mutation($file: Upload!) {
    uploadFile(file: $file) {
      id
    }
  }
`)(({ mutate }) => (
  <input
    type="file"
    required
    onChange={({ target: { validity, files: [file] } }) =>
      validity.valid && mutate({ variables: { file } })
    }
  />
))

Blob

import gql from 'graphql-tag'

// Apollo Client instance
import client from './apollo'

const file = new Blob(['Foo.'], { type: 'text/plain' })

// Optional, defaults to `blob`
file.name = 'bar.txt'

client.mutate({
  mutation: gql`
    mutation($file: Upload!) {
      uploadFile(file: $file) {
        id
      }
    }
  `,
  variables: { file }
})

React Native

Substitute File with ReactNativeFile from extract-files:

import { ReactNativeFile } from 'apollo-upload-client'

const file = new ReactNativeFile({
  uri: '…',
  type: 'image/jpeg',
  name: 'photo.jpg'
})

const files = ReactNativeFile.list([
  {
    uri: '…',
    type: 'image/jpeg',
    name: 'photo-1.jpg'
  },
  {
    uri: '…',
    type: 'image/jpeg',
    name: 'photo-2.jpg'
  }
])

Uploading from server-to-server

The main difference between using apollo-upload-client in a browser vs server environment is that in the server version you need to provide a function that replaces FormData which is native to any browser. The createUploadLink function receives the param serverFormData to that end. We suggest you use the npm package forma-data as you can see in the example bellow.

import { ApolloClient } from 'apollo-client'
import { InMemoryCache } from 'apollo-cache-inmemory'
import { createUploadLink } from 'apollo-upload-client'
import gql from 'graphql-tag'
import fs from 'fs'
import fetch from 'node-fetch'
import FormData from 'form-data'

const client = new ApolloClient({
  link: createUploadLink({
    uri: 'https://example.server.com/graphql',
    serverFormData: FormData,
    fetch
  }),
  cache: new InMemoryCache()
})

const variables = {
  file: fs.createReadStream('/path/to/file')
}

const mutation = gql`
  mutation UploadFile($file: Upload!) {
    uploadFile(file: $file) {
      id
    }
  }
`
client.mutate({ mutation, variables })

Redirecting uploads to remote merged schemas

This will eventually be supported by mergeSchemas function, but at this point this is a solution.

import { ApolloClient } from 'apollo-client'
import { InMemoryCache } from 'apollo-cache-inmemory'
import { createUploadLink } from 'apollo-upload-client'
import { mergeSchemas } from 'graphql-tools'
import gql from 'graphql-tag'
import fetch from 'node-fetch'
import FormData from 'form-data'

mergeSchemas({
  schemas: [bookSchema, authorSchema],
  resolvers: mergeInfo => ({
    Mutation: {
      async uploadBook(parent, args, context, info){

        const client = new ApolloClient({
          link: createUploadLink({
            uri: 'https://book.microservice.com/graphql',
            serverFormData: FormData,
            fetch
          }),
          cache: new InMemoryCache()
        })

        return await client.mutate({
          // if you add 'request' in your context by default
          // you can:
          mutation: gql(context.request.body.query),
          variables: args
        })
      }
    }
  }
}

Support

• Node.js v6.10+, see package.json engines.
• Browsers >1% usage, see package.json browserslist.
• React Native.