Headless AEM || Grapgh QL

[arvind]

Hello Team,

AEM Version: 6.5.11

We need to provide some JSON Data to Mobile app from AEM side. We are thinking to use GraphQL API for the same. I wanted to have some suggestions on the same:

1) To do the above, what is the ideal approach to send data---From Author instance only or from Publish...Because somewhere I read related to it and got confused.

2) We should be using persistent query or general queries should be fine?

Regards,

Arvind

[Anish-Sinha · Accepted solution]

Hi @arvind ,

Below are my suggestion:

1. It totally depends on the data you are exposing. Since you are sharing the data to App, I would assume this information for end users, and if so, I would say, only expose publish data and not author data. Author environment may expose some data which is in edit/review state.

2. It totally depends on what way you are able to achieve your requirement. Using persistent query would definitely be better for performance due to its enhanced capabilities.

[ibishika]

@arvind Not sure I got the problem statement correct here but if you are exposing data from AEM as JSON, have you checked if Sling Model Exporter fits your requirement or not.

[arvind]

Hi,

We need to use GraphQL for Headless in our project that is why we are not using Exporter.