Re: Marketplacer API (GraphQL)

GraphQL is yet another thing invented to resolve some "REST" problems ( that 99% of times is called that way but is luckily just many times RPC over HTTP carrier) and if I recall correctly introduced by Facebook to optimize the fetching from their frontend heavy stuff to backends.Think of it as query that you send and you get data back.The result would be a perfect match I think for a RPG DS in DS mapping (i.e. a graph like structure).
Usually is HTTP + JSON.Normally one would use a "client" layer to query the interface to abstract some details.

Back to IBMi (if RPG) I think one could send just the HTTP POST with the query to the GraphQL and work with the results.


On Friday, January 23, 2026 at 04:10:05 AM GMT+1, Greg Wilburn <gwilburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hoping someone else has encountered this platform... one of our customers is moving from a REST-based API (Mirakl) to this GraphQL based API (Marketplacer).

I have worked with SOAP and REST APIs in the past, but have zero experience with GraphQL.  I'm having a hard time following the documentation and Postman examples.

TIA,
Greg
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