Subscriptions

[Chrisdf]

Hi, I am trying to develop against a GraphQL server which heavily relies on subscriptions. I would love to not have to use the Javascript Apollo Client in React Native, but cannot seem to figure out if there is an already included way to implement subscriptions with this library. If there is not, is there possibly another Swift/Objective-C library which has this capability?

[martijnwalraven]

Subscriptions are not yet supported, but they are definitely on the road map, and we should be able to implement them in the next couple of months. I don't know of any other native libraries supporting GraphQL subscriptions.

[stubailo]

If someone has ideas or wants to send a PR this is a great place to discuss!

[bchrobot]

How do the authors feel about using a 3rd party library like Starscream for handling web sockets?

[martijnwalraven]

@bchrobot: I think that's a given, we definitely don't want to develop our own websocket library :) Starscream seems like a great option. Do you have any experience with it?

[MrAlek]

@martijnwalraven @bchrobot I've used Starscream for a hobby project in the past, super smooth to get going with. Definitely worth exploring.

[bchrobot]

@MrAlek That has been my experience with it as well.

@martijnwalraven Has planning for this feature been started? My group is very excited about this feature and could start on a PR for it

[martijnwalraven]

@bchrobot: We haven't really started planning, I just have some ideas. So it would be great if you wanted to get started on it!

[attheodo]

Any updates on subscriptions? Is there a roadmap?

[martijnwalraven]

We have some work on caching and the imperative read/write API to finish and merge first, but I suspect subscriptions will be one of the next things to work on after that! (These things are also something of a prerequisite for it.)

[mwurm93]

@martijnwalraven any idea of the timeline for subscriptions support?

[florianmari]

Hey guys, I'm working on GraphQL Subscription Library (LiveGQL) when I finish it and have a good library I'm gonna check to make a Pull Request on Apollo-iOS (in next few months I guess)

[stami]

@florianmari Any updates on integrating it to Apollo? :)

[Gregoirevda]

Any upgrades???

[LeeWong]

Any updates? Thanks.

[martijnwalraven]

It would be great if people are interested in contributing! Please join the #ios-core channel on the Apollo Slack if you want to discuss further. We're working on some changes to the networking layer that should make it easier to integrate with other transports.