The current consul GraphQL API has two problems.
1) It uses some unnecessary complicated magic to automatically create
the GraphQL types and querys using an `api.yml` file. This approach
is over-engineered, complex and has no benefits. It's just harder to
understand the code for people which are not familiar with the
project (like me, lol).
2) It uses a deprecated DSL [1] that is soon going to be removed from
`graphql-ruby` completely. We are already seeing deprecation warning
because of this (see References).
There was one problem. I wanted to create the API so that it is fully
backwards compatible with the old one, BUT the old one uses field names
which are directly derived from the ruby code, which results in
snake_case field names - not the GraphQL way. When I'm using the
graphql-ruby Class-based syntax, it automatically creates the fields in
camelCase, which breaks backwards-compatibility.
So I've added deprecated snake_case field names to keep it
backwards-compatible.
[1] https://graphql-ruby.org/schema/class_based_api.html
We were very inconsistent regarding these rules.
Personally I prefer no empty lines around blocks, clases, etc... as
recommended by the Ruby style guide [1], and they're the default values
in rubocop, so those are the settings I'm applying.
The exception is the `private` access modifier, since we were leaving
empty lines around it most of the time. That's the default rubocop rule
as well. Personally I don't have a strong preference about this one.
[1] https://rubystyle.guide/#empty-lines-around-bodies
