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Resolvers

Resolvers are a fundamental part of the platform's API mesh capabilities. They are configuration blocks that declare how to connect to a service, and how to make a request using information from the context provided by a query.

Definitions

Types

Below are the broad resolver types. Click through to read in detail about the capabilities of a specific type of resolver, or read on for an overview.

Sample of a resolver

Below is a snippet of a query with a resolver that fulfills the request by accessing the Rick and Morty API.

{
"RickAndMorty_characters": {
"shape": {
"type": "array",
"items": {"$ref": "#/shapes/RickAndMorty_Character/schema"}
},
"resolver": {
"name": "rest:get",
"service": "rick",
"searchParams": {
"ops": [
{"path": "$", "mapping": "$args.filter"},
{"path": "page", "mapping": "$args.page"}
]
},
"options": {"path": "character/"},
"results": {
"ops": [
{"path": "$", "mapping": "$finalStep.results"},
{
"path": "[*].firstName",
"mapping": [
["jsonPath", {"path": "$loop.item.name"}],
["replace", {"regexp": "[^\\s]+$", "replacement": ""}],
["trim", {}]
]
},
{
"path": "[*].lastName",
"mapping": [
["jsonPath", {"path": "$loop.item.name"}],
["replace", {"regexp": "^[^\\s]+", "replacement": ""}],
["trim", {}]
]
},
{"path": "[*].name", "op": "remove"},
{"path": "[1,3].plucked", "mapping": "$loopIndex"},
{"path": "[0:3].sliced", "mapping": "$loopKey"}
]
}
},
"description": "Returns a list of characters.",
"args": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"page": {"type": "number"},
"filter": {
"type": "object",
"properties": {
"status": {"type": "string"},
"species": {"type": "string"},
"type": {"type": "string"},
"gender": {"type": "string"}
}
}
}
}
}
}