Async actions¶
Sometimes you may not want to wait for an action to complete before sending a
response back to the client (say if the business logic takes a long time). In
such cases you can create an asynchronous action, which returns an
action_id
immediately to the client before contacting the handler.
If you mark an action as asynchronous, Hasura also generates a
query
and a subscription
field for the action so that you can
query/subscribe to its status.
Note
Only actions of type mutation
can be async. Actions of type query are always executed synchronously.
For example, let’s say place_order
is an asynchronous action
mutation placeOrderRequest($order_input: place_order_input!) {
place_order(input: $order_input)
}
Executing this mutation will return a response like:
{
"data": {
"place_order": "23b1c256-7aff-4b95-95bd-68220d9f93f2"
}
}
The returned uuid
is the action id
of the async action. To get the actual
response of the action, you can query
or subscribe
to the action
using this action id
.
subscription getPlaceOrderResponse {
place_order (id: "23b1c256-7aff-4b95-95bd-68220d9f93f2") {
output
errors
}
}