Graphweaver is designed to work with any number of data providers, allowing you to connect your GraphQL API to different data sources.
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It provides support for multiple data providers out-of-the-box, including PostgreSQL, MySQL, REST, and Xero, giving you the flexibility to integrate with a wide range of systems.
And the architecture of Graphweaver allows for easy creation of data providers to interface with additional data sources as needed.
Data providers are implemented as a set of methods that define how to fetch, update, delete, and create data in a particular data source.
When defining a resolver, you can specify a data provider to use for that resolver.
The resolver then uses the methods provided by Graphweaver to bind to the data provider and perform the requested operation on the data source.
Data providers can be used to implement caching, pagination, filtering, and other functionality specific to a particular data source. They can also be composed together to implement more complex behaviour.
For example, you might have a query that fetches data from the database, and another data provider that fetches data from the REST API.
It can then compose these together to provide a unified API that fetches data from both sources, performs caching, and applies pagination and filtering as needed.