Apollo Client useQuery react hook for GET requests

Question

The API resource I am trying to pull from expects a GET request. How can I use the useQuery hook to send a GET request, it seems like it only ever sends POST requests.

In my limited understanding of GraphQL, should the server be changed so the endpoint for GET_ALL_MODELS is a POST request or do I need to change something on the frontend so my Query sends a GET method request.

Answer 1

There are 2 ways to implement this.

One is setting up your ApolloClient to send all queries as GET. This is achieved using HttpLink with useGETForQueries as true

import { ApolloClient, InMemoryCache, HttpLink, ApolloLink } from '@apollo/client';

const client = new ApolloClient({
  cache: new InMemoryCache(),
  link: new HttpLink({
    uri: '/graphql',
    useGETForQueries: true
  }),
});

And in case you need to do it for a specific query, you could override the ApolloLink context and set fetchOptions.method to GET.

const query = useQuery(gql`...`, {variables: {...}, context: {fetchOptions: {method: 'GET'}}})