Visual Design of GraphQL Data: A Practical Introduction with Legacy Data and Neo4j

© Thomas Frisendal 2018

Thomas FrisendalVisual Design of GraphQL Datahttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3904-9_4

4. An Email Example

Thomas Frisendal¹ 

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Copenhagen S, Denmark

 

The GraphQL Schema is a data graph containing related concepts in a network, organized as a directed graph. In a way, you could say that the GraphQL approach makes everything look like a graph! (Which is actually the case, anyway.)

This makes the so-called property graph approach to graph visualization a powerful opportunity for the GraphQL Schema designer.

We will work from a simple email graph data model. First let’s get an overview of the basic concepts of email (as defined in the Internet Message Format standard called RFC 5322). See Figure 4-1.

Figure 4-1

Email concepts ...