GraphQL Federation where two services share data of a single shared schema

GraphQL Federation where two services share data of a single shared schema


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Really like the GraphQL Federation concept, where a gateway joins the data for clients. For example, imagine a library:

  • Service A serves books from the library with title & ISBN property.
  • Service B serves people, with a checkedOut list of books they have checked out, by ISBN.

From what I can tell, though, there is no way to have two services serve data from the same schema. In this case, imagine a second library is created that is serving its own books:

  • Service C serves books from library 2 with title & ISBN property (i.e., same schema as service A).

I imagine a gateway that allows me to:

  • Query for books and get results from either service A or service C.
    books {
       title
    }
  • Allow people to checkout books from either library, and queries would return results from all three services (starting with service B, joining to either service A or B as appropriate):
    person {
      checkedOut {
         title
      }
    }

Is this possible? If so, can someone point me to example documentation describing how to do it?

If not, what am I missing? Doesn’t this seem like a logical use case for Federation?


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