5. Execute your first query
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Overview

Let's test out our and validate that it can return data from our remote .

In this lesson we will:

  • Create a Network class
  • Add some temporary code to the LaunchListViewModel to show how to execute a

Create an ApolloClient

To use the generated in RocketReserverAPI, you first create an instance of ApolloClient. This instance takes your generated code and uses it to make network calls to your server. It's recommended that this instance is a singleton or static instance that's accessible from anywhere in your codebase.

  1. Create a new Swift file within RocketReserver called Network.swift. Set the target to RocketReserver.

  2. Now add the following code into the file:

Network.swift
import Foundation
import Apollo


class Network {
    static let shared = Network()


    private(set) lazy var apollo = ApolloClient(url: URL(string: "https://apollo-fullstack-tutorial.herokuapp.com/graphql")!)
}

Implement the query

To make sure your ApolloClient instance is communicating correctly with the server, jump into the RocketReserver directory and open up LaunchListViewModel. We'll add the imports shown below, then add the following code to the init() method just below the TODO:

LaunchListViewModel.swift
import SwiftUI
import Apollo
import RocketReserverAPI


// ...class initialization


init() {
    // TODO (later in the tutorial)
    Network.shared.apollo.fetch(query: LaunchListQuery()) { result in
        switch result {
        case .success(let graphQLResult):
            print("Success! Result: \(graphQLResult)")
        case .failure(let error):
            print("Failure! Error: \(error)")
        }
    }
}

Test your query

Build and run your application. The web host might take a few seconds to spin up your if nobody's been using it recently, but once it's up, you should see a response in your console that resembles the following:

Query console log output, beginning with 'Success! Result: GraphQLResult...'

This means the request was correctly executed and you now have a list of launch sites 🚀🚀🚀

Go ahead and remove the code added to the init() method so there is just the TODO for later:

LaunchListViewModel.swift
init() {
    // TODO (later in the tutorial)
}
Todo list

Up next

Next, let's connect this data to our UI 🚀

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