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Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe
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Craft GraphQL APIs in Elixir with Absinthe

by Bruce Williams, Ben Wilson
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
6h 59m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Structuring for Authorization

Some authorization concerns can be handled by the very structure of the data within our application, and we can use this when we design our schema. The idea is that a single field can authenticate for fields deeper down in our query. After all, a GraphQL document is a tree; if we can have a single field act as a gatekeeper for any data that requires authorization, it could simplify our code and the amount of mental overhead involved in trying to remember what’s public and what isn’t.

A good example of some data in our application that is structured this way is the orders that are associated with a particular customer record. Based on what we’ve done so far, if we’re logged in as a customer and want to get our orders ...

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