Client is not batching requests

[relay-tools]

Client is not batching requests

[zuhair-naqvi]

PS I'm using this in concert with https://github.com/eyston/relay-composite-network-layer

The exported RelayNetworkLayer is passed to relay-composite-network-layer - this shouldn't have any effect on RelayNetworkLayer as it is simply a wrapper for merging schemas, thought i'd mention it regardless..

[nodkz]

I think that compositeNetworkLayer spreads one sendQueries call obtained from Relay to multiple: https://github.com/eyston/relay-composite-network-layer/blob/master/src/execute/network.js#L14,L16

• So you need to combine somehow this requests into one back, before touching react-relay-network-layer [better solution].
• Or write some bufferMiddleware for react-relay-network-layer, which will gather requests some period of time and then combine it to batch query send to the server and resolve it back [very hard and tricky solution].
• Or maybe fork relay-composite-network-layer and write your own custom network layer [may be the simplest solution in your case].

[zuhair-naqvi]

@nodkz Thanks for the quick response!

The buffer middleware sounds like the most robust as different schemas in composite network layer may be using different network layers.

What's the best way of approaching this? Could I simply return next([requestPool])? or do I need to create a RelayQueryRequest with query type 'batch-query'?

I'll contribute the bufferMiddleware back to this repo once done as it's pretty handy utility.

[nodkz]

You should get back relayRequestObject from req.relayReqObj, create array of them and pass to
queriesBatch(relayRequestList, fetchWithMiddleware).

It too hacky, but should work.

PS. Ideally, I should rewrite all network layer from scratch. Some internal parts are too ugly and not clear for me already 😳.