Github GraphQL in NodeJS App: A query attribute must be specified and must be a string. #24814

madelinezec · 2019-11-21T16:29:35Z

madelinezec
Nov 21, 2019

I have two different queries.

The first is in a private repo:

const query = `{
      repository(
        owner: "privateOrg"
        name: "privateRepo"
      ) {
        name
        forkCount
        forks(
          first: 27
          orderBy: { field: NAME, direction: DESC }
        ) {
          totalCount
          nodes {
            name
          }
        }
      }
    }`

The second is in a public repo:

const querytwo = `{
      repository(
        owner: "publicOrg"
        name: "publicRepo"
      ) {
        name
        forkCount
        forks(
          first: 11
          orderBy: { field: NAME, direction: DESC }
        ) {
          totalCount
          nodes {
            name
          }
        }
      }
    }`

The fetch for both look identical except the queries:

fetch('https://api.github.com/graphql', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({query}),
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
  },
}).then(res => res.text())
  .then(body => console.log(body))
  .catch(error => console.error(error));
  console.log("\n\n\n");
fetch('https://api.github.com/graphql', {
  method: 'POST',
  body: JSON.stringify({querytwo}),
  headers: {
    'Authorization': `Bearer ${accessToken}`,
  },
}).then(res =&gt; res.text())
  .then(body =&gt; console.log(body))
  .catch(error =&gt; console.error(error));
console.log("\n\n\n");

The first query returns:

{"data":{"repository":{"name":"mms-docs","forkCount":26,"forks":{"totalCount":8,"nodes":[{"name":"mms-docs"},{"name":"mms-docs"},{"name":"mms-docs"},{"name":"mms-docs"},{"name":"mms-docs"},{"name":"mms-docs"},{"name":"mms-docs"},{"name":"mms-docs"}]}}}}

The second query returns:

{"errors":[{"message":"A query attribute must be specified and must be a string."}]}

What am I doing wrong?

Answered by madelinezec

Nov 22, 2019

The issue was short hand object notation.

JSON.stringify({query})

is shorthand for

JSON.stringify({query: query})

which becomes

{
query:
 {
      repository(
        owner: "PrivateOrg"
        name: "privateRepoName"
      ) {
        name
        forkCount
        forks(
          first: 11
          orderBy: { field: NAME, direction: DESC }
        ) {
          totalCount
          nodes {
            name
          }
        }
      }
    }
   }`

JSON.stringify({querytwo}) is shorthand for JSON.stringify({querytwo: querytwo}), or in other words it creates this query:

{
querytwo:
 {
      repository(
        owner: "PrivateOrg"
        name: "privateRepoName"
      ) {
        na…

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madelinezec · 2019-11-22T00:13:28Z

madelinezec
Nov 22, 2019
Author

The issue was short hand object notation.

JSON.stringify({query})

is shorthand for

JSON.stringify({query: query})

which becomes

{
query:
 {
      repository(
        owner: "PrivateOrg"
        name: "privateRepoName"
      ) {
        name
        forkCount
        forks(
          first: 11
          orderBy: { field: NAME, direction: DESC }
        ) {
          totalCount
          nodes {
            name
          }
        }
      }
    }
   }`

JSON.stringify({querytwo}) is shorthand for JSON.stringify({querytwo: querytwo}), or in other words it creates this query:

{
querytwo:
 {
      repository(
        owner: "PrivateOrg"
        name: "privateRepoName"
      ) {
        name
        forkCount
        forks(
          first: 11
          orderBy: { field: NAME, direction: DESC }
        ) {
          totalCount
          nodes {
            name
          }
        }
      }
    }
   }`

Hence why GraphQL couldn’t find a query - it found a queryTwo

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pro-master · 2019-11-24T06:35:12Z

pro-master
Nov 24, 2019

I need help I’m new I’m kind of confuse

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