'link' directive definition is missing 'for' parameter

[kbrooks]

'link' directive definition is missing 'for' parameter

[dariuszkuc]

Thanks for raising this. We indeed did not implement handling of Purpose enum as it is used only internally by gateway/router when constructing a supergraph (as in subgraphs should "never" define it as it is useless information for them, i.e. it would always be null)). That being said, for completeness we should handle it.

Somewhat curious on why your graphs define it?

[kbrooks]

So my issue is due to graphql code generator's schema merging
feature not knowing what to do with the differently defined federation-related stuff in my two schemas I'm preparing to move into the apollo federated gateway. I was able to fix the issue by adding the directives etc to the schema file itself

directive @link(url: String!, as: String, for: link__Purpose, import: [link__Import]) repeatable on SCHEMA

scalar link__Import

enum link__Purpose {
    SECURITY
    EXECUTION
}

directive @federation__external(reason: String) on OBJECT | FIELD_DEFINITION

Adding the values directly to the schema makes it so federation does not automatically add its own, and unblocks code generation.