GraphQ...ection(3pm)

💖 GraphQL::Introspection — the perl manual page, but make it bestie 💖

okay so this is GraphQL::Introspection, a Perl situation, living in the 3pm section of your manual (you know, the Perl module girlies 🎀). It's the Perl implementation of GraphQL. Yes bestie, introspection. Looking at yourself. Main character energy fr fr 🪞✨

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✨ NAME ✨

GraphQL::Introspection — a Perl implementation of GraphQL. That's it, that's the name, no notes 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so you literally just do this and you're in:

use GraphQL::Introspection qw($QUERY);
my $schema_data = execute($schema, $QUERY);

like. that's the whole vibe. pull in $QUERY, hand it to execute with your $schema, and boom — $schema_data is yours 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

It provides infrastructure implementing GraphQL's introspection. That's the official tea ☕ — this module is the scaffolding that makes the whole "a schema can look at itself" thing happen.

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👑 EXPORT 👑

⭐ $QUERY

The GraphQL query to introspect the schema. This is the one you want, lowkey. It's the whole point 💖

🌈 $TYPE_KIND_META_TYPE

The enum type describing kinds of type. It's the second-most-meta type here, after $TYPE_META_TYPE itself. So close to the meta-crown, but respectfully, second place 👑🥈

🎀 $DIRECTIVE_LOCATION_META_TYPE

The enum type describing directive locations. Where do directives go? This knows 📍

🍓 $ENUM_VALUE_META_TYPE

The type describing enum values. Enum value lore, contained ✨

🧚 $INPUT_VALUE_META_TYPE

The type describing input values. Inputs, but make it a type 🫶

💜 $FIELD_META_TYPE

The type describing fields. Fields, described. Slay 🌾

🔥 $DIRECTIVE_META_TYPE

The type describing directives. Directives getting their own type, iconic 💅

💀 $TYPE_META_TYPE

The type describing a type. "Yo dawg..." 😭😭 yes. A type about types. It's meta. It's the meta. We love a self-referential king.

🌟 $SCHEMA_META_TYPE

The type describing the schema itself. The schema, looking at the schema. Full circle moment 🌀

🦄 $SCHEMA_META_FIELD_DEF

The meta-field existing on the top query. Top-level meta-field, main character, obviously 🌈

🌸 $TYPE_META_FIELD_DEF

The meta-field existing on the top query, describing a named type. Same spot, different job — this one's about named types 🏷️

✨ $TYPE_NAME_META_FIELD_DEF

The meta-field existing on each object field, naming its type. Every object field gets one, and it tells you what type it is. Helpful bestie behavior fr fr 🫶

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no cap: every single one of those exports is spelled exactly like that, so don't get cute with the underscores when you use them 💖

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and that's the page, bestie!! 🎉 this was perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-03-27 — Perl's own GraphQL::Introspection page, and yes it's been serving this exact meta realness since then 💅✨ bye ily 🫶