AstPrinter: Empty types should not include braces {}
#3619
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Description
In the latest version of the spec, empty types (input objects, object types) must be represented without curly braces, i.e the following is valid:
while the following technically isn't (note the
{}
):Because of historical reasons,
graphql-java
supports parsing of both syntaxes. However itsAstPrinter
prints the spec invalid form. While this is ok in systems wheregraphql-java
's GraphQL parser is the only one in use, it fails in poly-parser systems where stricter (albeit spec-compliant) parsers might fail to parsegraphql-java
printed SDL output.Approach
This PR updates the
AstPrinter
to be spec-compliant, i.e serialize empty types, empty selection sets (although should never happen) without the{}
.Follow ups
If there is interest, I can follow up with another PR that (while breaking backwards-compatibilty) will make the parser spec compliant as well, i.e only allow the form without braces
{}
.