Improving applied directive & directive builders #3825

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:10:38Z

Opening this PR for discussion.

For directive containers, @gnawf reported that the withAppliedDirectives builder surprisingly also cleared all of the existing directives, given that there is already a replaceAppliedDirectives builder. This led to a bug, and it was quickly fixed by using the singular withAppliedDirective builder, which doesn't delete any prior applied directives.

I agree that it is surprising, I would expect with implies that applied directives are only added without deleting existing applied directives. It seems like the previous code, before the transition to Applied Directives, also had this behaviour. I'm open here, maybe this is intended behaviour and I don't know the story behind it.

I think it would be better to have two sorts of builders, one that only adds applied directives, and another sort that can clear and replace all the existing applied directives, rather than the current state where two differently named methods are doing the same thing (replacement).

To make this change clearer I would like to introduce a new method addAppliedDirectives to supercede the withAppliedDirectives methods.

I guess this issue wasn't reported earlier because it is a less common use case. If a person wants to retain the legacy behaviour, they can switch to using replaceAppliedDirectives instead.

Although this is small, this is a breaking change so I would like to discuss this before making changes.

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dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:12:06Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@

 import static graphql.Assert.assertNotNull;

-@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")


IDEA told me it's no longer needed, I do what the computer says

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:13:05Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

+
+    public B addAppliedDirective(GraphQLAppliedDirective.Builder builder) {
+        return addAppliedDirective(builder.build());
+    }


Because it makes more sense for all the additive builders to start with "add", I have also created the "add" version for the singular method, but I think the prior implementation was correct

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:13:21Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

+            addAppliedDirective(directive);
+        }
+        return (B) this;
+    }


This no longer clears existing directives

I think this is a copy and paste bug

we have

public B replaceAppliedDirectives(List<GraphQLAppliedDirective> directives) { assertNotNull(directives, () -> "directive can't be null"); this.appliedDirectives.clear(); this.appliedDirectives.addAll(directives); return (B) this; } public B withAppliedDirectives(GraphQLAppliedDirective... directives) { assertNotNull(directives, () -> "directives can't be null"); this.appliedDirectives.clear(); /// COPY PASTE BUG HERE for (GraphQLAppliedDirective directive : directives) { withAppliedDirective(directive); } return (B) this; }

I think it was never meant to clear it because as you say we have non clearing singular version

public B withAppliedDirective(GraphQLAppliedDirective directive) { assertNotNull(directive, () -> "directive can't be null"); this.appliedDirectives.add(directive); return (B) this; }

I agree that addXXX might be more clearer but honestly I would change the bheavior of the original withXXX rather than add a new method. This is a breaking change after all

Hmmmmmmmm or maybe not

public B withDirectives(GraphQLDirective... directives) { assertNotNull(directives, () -> "directives can't be null"); this.directives.clear(); for (GraphQLDirective directive : directives) { withDirective(directive); } return (B) this; }

from another class does the same thing

copy and paste copy and paste bug??

I can see other "withXXX plural" and they dont do the clear behavior

public Builder withSchemaDirectives(GraphQLDirective... directives) { for (GraphQLDirective directive : directives) { withSchemaDirective(directive); } return this; }

That's right we have a combo of a copy paste of possibly a bug and then a typo that led to unusual behaviour

My preference is to change withXXX rather than introducing new addXXX methods, because most people are used to builders having "with", but wasn't sure how cautious to be

y preference is to change withXXX rather than introducing new addXXX methods,
I concur. Lets do that

github-actions · 2025-02-16T05:14:33Z

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dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:14:39Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

+     * @deprecated - use {@link #replaceAppliedDirectives(List)} to clear and replace directives,
+     * or {@link #addAppliedDirectives(GraphQLAppliedDirective...)} to add directives without clearing the existing ones
+     */
+    @Deprecated(since = "2025-02-16", forRemoval = true)


forRemoval is set to true because this behaviour is identical in replaceAppliedDirectives

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:14:57Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

+     * @deprecated - use {@link #replaceAppliedDirectives(List)} to clear and replace directives,
+     * or {@link #addAppliedDirectives(GraphQLAppliedDirective...)} to add directives without clearing the existing ones
+     */
+    @Deprecated(since = "2025-02-16", forRemoval = true)
    public B withAppliedDirectives(GraphQLAppliedDirective... directives) {
        assertNotNull(directives, () -> "directives can't be null");
        this.appliedDirectives.clear();


This is the unusual line - directives are cleared

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:17:19Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

+     *
+     * @deprecated - use {@link #addAppliedDirective(GraphQLAppliedDirective.Builder)} instead
+     */
+    @Deprecated(since = "2025-02-16", forRemoval = true)
    public B withAppliedDirective(GraphQLAppliedDirective.Builder builder) {
        return withAppliedDirectives(builder.build());


This may have been an unintentional typo during the major migration to Applied Directives.

The previous singular withAppliedDirective method that takes a GraphQLAppliedDirective does not clear any prior directives, but this withAppliedDirective with a builder parameter will take clear existing directives because it calls the plural withAppliedDirectives method

The new 'addAppliedDirective' method corresponding to this one (with a builder parameter) does not clear directives

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:19:24Z

src/test/groovy/graphql/execution/ValuesResolverTest.groovy

@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ class ValuesResolverTest extends Specification {
                .type(GraphQLString)
        def inputType = newInputObject()
                .name("Person")
-                .withAppliedDirective(Directives.OneOfDirective.toAppliedDirective())
+                .addAppliedDirective(Directives.OneOfDirective.toAppliedDirective())


I updated tests to use the new "add" versions of builders, and I added a few legacy tests for coverage. We can delete the legacy tests when we removed the deprecated methods

Scroll down to AppliedDirectivesAreValid test file to see the test that demonstrates the change in behaviour

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:45:35Z

src/test/groovy/graphql/schema/validation/AppliedDirectivesAreValidTest.groovy

-        hasError(schemaProblem, "The directive 'directiveA' on the 'GraphQLFieldDefinition' called 'fieldD' is a non repeatable directive but has been applied 2 times");
-        hasError(schemaProblem, "The directive 'directiveA' on the 'GraphQLFieldDefinition' called 'fieldA' is a non repeatable directive but has been applied 2 times");
-        hasError(schemaProblem, "The directive 'directiveA' on the 'GraphQLEnumValueDefinition' called 'enumA' is a non repeatable directive but has been applied 2 times");
-        hasError(schemaProblem, "The directive 'directiveA' on the 'GraphQLInputObjectField' called 'inputFieldA' is a non repeatable directive but has been applied 2 times");


IDEA told me to delete the semi colons, I do what the computer says

dondonz · 2025-02-16T05:46:35Z

src/test/groovy/graphql/schema/validation/AppliedDirectivesAreValidTest.groovy

+        hasError(schemaProblem, "The directive 'directiveA' on the 'GraphQLInputObjectField' called 'inputFieldA' is a non repeatable directive but has been applied 2 times")
+    }
+
+    def "add applied directive builders do not clear any existing applied directives"(){


Here are a pair of tests to demonstrate the change of "clearing" behaviour more clearly

There isn't already a directive container test file, adding here instead for now

bbakerman

We spoke last week about this removing the add method and changing the with methods

Marking this as "request changes" to indicate that

dondonz · 2025-03-16T08:21:45Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

    public B withAppliedDirectives(GraphQLAppliedDirective... directives) {
        assertNotNull(directives, () -> "directives can't be null");
-        this.appliedDirectives.clear();


Removing the unintended "clear" behaviour

dondonz · 2025-03-16T08:36:14Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

    public B withAppliedDirective(GraphQLAppliedDirective.Builder builder) {
-        return withAppliedDirectives(builder.build());


Seems to have been a typo

dondonz · 2025-03-16T08:36:24Z

src/test/groovy/graphql/execution/ValuesResolverTest.groovy

@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@ package graphql.execution

 import graphql.Directives
 import graphql.ErrorType
-import graphql.ExecutionInput


dondonz · 2025-03-16T08:44:39Z

src/main/java/graphql/schema/GraphqlDirectivesContainerTypeBuilder.java

@@ -67,7 +78,6 @@ public B replaceDirectives(List<GraphQLDirective> directives) {
    @Deprecated(since = "2022-02-24")
    public B withDirectives(GraphQLDirective... directives) {
        assertNotNull(directives, () -> "directives can't be null");
-        this.directives.clear();


This method is deprecated, but let's also remove the unintended clear line from here

dondonz · 2025-03-16T08:47:58Z

I've changed the existing with builders instead of adding a new set of add builders

dondonz · 2025-03-16T08:48:22Z

src/test/groovy/graphql/schema/validation/AppliedDirectivesAreValidTest.groovy

+        hasError(schemaProblem, "The directive 'directiveA' on the 'GraphQLInputObjectField' called 'inputFieldA' is a non repeatable directive but has been applied 2 times")
+    }
+
+    def "applied directive builders do not clear any existing applied directives"() {


A new test to lock in the new behaviour

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		@@ -7,7 +7,6 @@

		import static graphql.Assert.assertNotNull;

		@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")

		public B withAppliedDirective(GraphQLAppliedDirective.Builder builder) {
		return withAppliedDirectives(builder.build());

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