Adding an integration

Strawberry provides a set of integrations with other libraries, such as Django, FastAPI, Flask, and more, but you can also add your own integration. This guide will show you how to do that.

Base views

Strawberry includes two base views that you can use to create your own integrations:

SyncBaseHTTPView : a base view for synchronous integrations
AsyncBaseHTTPView : a base view for asynchronous integrations

Both views are provides the same API, with the main difference being that the AsyncBaseHTTPView ’s methods are async.

Creating a view

To create a view, you need to create a class that inherits from either SyncBaseHTTPView or AsyncBaseHTTPView and implement the get_root_value method. Here is an example of a view that inherits from AsyncBaseHTTPView :

from strawberry.http.async_base_view import AsyncBaseHTTPView
from strawberry.http.temporal_response import TemporalResponse
from strawberry.http.typevars import Context, RootValue


class MyView(
    AsyncBaseHTTPView[
        MyRequest,
        MyResponse,
        TemporalResponse,
        Context,
        RootValue,
    ]
):
    @property
    def allow_queries_via_get(self) -> bool:
        # this will usually be a setting on the view
        return True

    async def get_sub_response(self, request: MyRequest) -> TemporalResponse:
        return TemporalResponse(status_code=200)

    async def get_context(self, request: Request, response: SubResponse) -> Context:
        return {"request": request, "response": response}

    async def get_root_value(self, request: Request) -> Optional[RootValue]:
        return None

    def render_graphql_ide(self, request: Request) -> Response: ...

    def create_response(
        self, response_data: GraphQLHTTPResponse, sub_response: SubResponse
    ) -> Response: ...

The methods above are the bare minimum that you need to implement to create a view. They are all required, but you can also override other methods to change the behaviour of the view.

On top of that we also need a request adapter, here’s the base class for the async version:

from strawberry.http.types import HTTPMethod, QueryParams, FormData


class AsyncHTTPRequestAdapter:
    @property
    def query_params(self) -> Mapping[str, Optional[Union[str, List[str]]]]: ...

    @property
    def method(self) -> HTTPMethod: ...

    @property
    def headers(self) -> Mapping[str, str]: ...

    @property
    def content_type(self) -> Optional[str]: ...

    async def get_body(self) -> Union[bytes, str]: ...

    async def get_form_data(self) -> FormData: ...

This request adapter will be used to get the request data from the request object. You can specify the request adapter to use by setting the request_adapter_class attribute on the view.

class MyView(
    AsyncBaseHTTPView[
        MyRequest,
        MyResponse,
        TemporalResponse,
        Context,
        RootValue,
    ]
):
    request_adapter_class = MyRequestAdapter

Finally you need to execute the operation, the base view provides a run method that you can use to do that:

from strawberry.http.exceptions import HTTPException


class MyView(
    AsyncBaseHTTPView[
        MyRequest,
        MyResponse,
        TemporalResponse,
        Context,
        RootValue,
    ]
):
    ...

    async def get(self, request: MyRequest) -> MyResponse:
        try:
            return await self.run(request)
        except HTTPException as e:
            response = Response(e.reason, status_code=e.status_code)