The Codegen CLI

The Codegen CLI provides a command line tool that streamlines the process of running code generation. The CLI can be ran manually from Terminal (or any other shell program) or can be called into from bash scripts.

The Codegen CLI has three primary commands:

Initialize: Initializes an apollo-codegen-configuration.json file that can be used to configure how the CLI generates code.
Fetch Schema: Fetches your GraphQL schema and writes it to a file. The schema is required in order to run code generation.
- To learn how to configure schema fetching, see Downloading a schema.
Generate: Runs the code generation engine using the configuration in your apollo-codegen-configuration.json file.

For detailed usage documentation of these commands, see the Usage section.

Installation

When Apollo iOS is included as a dependency through Swift Package Manager (SPM) or Cocoapods, the CLI is built and packaged with the dependency automatically. This ensures you always have a valid version of the CLI for the version of Apollo iOS you are using and you never have to worry about installation or updates.

To learn how to run the Codegen CLI with your chosen package manager, open the appropriate section:

Usage

The Apollo iOS Codegen CLI is a command like utility for Apollo iOS code generation.

`apollo-ios-cli <subcommand>`

Options:

Option	Description
`--version`	Show the version of the CLI.
`-h, --help`	Show help information.

Subcommands:

Command	Description
`init`	Initialize a new configuration with defaults.
`generate`	Generate Swift source code based on a code generation configuration.
`fetch-schema`	Download a GraphQL schema from the Apollo Registry or GraphQL introspection.

See apollo-ios-cli help <subcommand> for detailed help.

Initialize

Creates an apollo-codegen-configuration.json file with default values. The Codegen CLI reads this file to configure how the CLI generates code.

The default configuration will:

Find all GraphQL schema files ending with the file extension .graphqls within your project directory.
Find all GraphQL operation and fragment definition files ending with the file extension .graphql within your project directory.
Create a Swift Package for your generated schema with the schema-name provided.
Generate operation and fragment models relative to the .graphql files that define them.

For more information on configuring code generation, see the configuration documentation.

Command:

apollo-ios-cli init [--schema-name <schema name>] [--module-type <module type>] [--target-name <target name>]

Options:

Option	Description
`--schema-name`	[Required] The name you would like to be used as the namespace for your generated schema files.
`--module-type`	[Required] How to package the schema types for dependency management. Possible types are `embeddedInTarget`, `swiftPackageManager`, `other`.
`--target-name`	Name of the target in which the schema types files will be manually embedded. Note: This is required for the "embeddedInTarget" module type and will be ignored for all other module types.
`-p, --path <path>`	Write the configuration to a file at the path. (default: `./apollo-codegen-config.json`)
`-w, --overwrite`	Overwrite any file at `--path`. If init is called without `--overwrite` and a config file already exists at `--path`, the command will fail.
`-s, --print`	Print the configuration to stdout.
`--version`	Show the version of the CLI.
`-h, --help`	Show help information.

Option	Description
`-p, --path <path>`	Read the configuration from a file at the path. `--string` overrides this option if used together. (default: `./apollo-codegen-config.json`)
`-s, --string <string>`	Provide the configuration string in JSON format. This option overrides `--path`.
`-v, --verbose`	Increase verbosity to include debug output.
`--version`	Show the version of the CLI.
`-h, --help`	Show help information.

Option	Description
`-p, --path <path>`	Read the configuration from a file at the path. `--string` overrides this option if used together. (default: `./apollo-codegen-config.json`)
`-s, --string <string>`	Provide the configuration string in JSON format. This option overrides `--path`.
`-v, --verbose`	Increase verbosity to include debug output.
`-f, --fetch-schema`	Fetch the GraphQL schema before Swift code generation. This runs the `fetch-schema` command.
`--version`	Show the version of the CLI.
`-h, --help`	Show help information.

Introduction

Configuration