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Sending a downloadable file using absinthe graphql

I currently have a grahql API which sends out json as string. I now want to tweak this to be able send a downloadable json file in the API response. My schema currently currently looks like this:

object :export_data do
    field :resp_data, :json
end

My initial idea was to change the resp_data type of a file data type and then in the resolver function return a file (using File.write/2). Something like this:

object :export_data do
    field :resp_data, :file
end

But I couldn’t find a data type in the absinthe documentation that supports a file. How do I send a downloadable file in a graphql API response?

First Post!

olivermt

olivermt

You would have to build a custom scalar on both sides or base64 encode.

A much easier solution is to make a short lived Phoenix.Token or JTW that allows for file download (like a url with the token on it, similar to how signed urls work in s3). Pass that in the response and then use js to instigate a download.

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