Timex Scalar Types in Absinthe
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1 min readSep 7, 2017
Update: I’ve now submitted a PR to the Absinthe documentation website repo. It will hopefully be reflected in the official Absinthe docs soon.
In bootstrapping a GraphQL endpoint for my Elixir services I came across an issue with how the official Absinthe documentation describes defining scalar terms, specifically time.
Due to a change in the Timex API for v3, the sample code is no longer correct.
The incorrect code is:
If you use the code from the documentation you’ll get the following compile error:
warning: function Timex.DateFormat.parse/2 is undefined (module Timex.DateFormat is not available)
lib/foo_web/schema/types.ex:73warning: function Timex.DateFormat.format!/2 is undefined (module Timex.DateFormat is not available)
lib/foo_web/schema/types.ex:74
The corrected code if you using ~> 3.0.0 of Timex is:
Zachery Moneypenny is a Principal Developer at adorable.io. Rubyist for a long time, with experience in Golang and Javascript as well but moving towards Elixir and loving it.
