GitLab Analyze:Product Analytics Team Meetings, 3 Nov 2022

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From YouTube: Processing YAML dashboards to GraphQL APIs

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Max (Analyze::Product Analytics) demos the proposed changes in https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/102547.

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Hey folks, my name is Maxwell from a senior backing engineer on the uh analyze stage, number one one through I've done so far in terms of converting uh yaml dashboard definitions into usable, graphql, API, endpoints and the bit in between so as you've agreed, we'll have a DOT, gitlab, folder called Product, analytics dashboards and within each of those we can have our own dashboard uh inside each of those files should be a folder should be a SQL file with the same name.aml and then the definition file itself.

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I know: we've got to agreed the exact scheming yet, but I think at this point I'm, assuming that these three attributes will exist um as well as some sort of array of widgets of some kind.

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um So you can see, we've got another one here as well called Northstar and the end point we want to get to is you want to be able to make a query like this for a particular project as a developer or higher output, all the dashboards for information, the widgets and eventually their figures as well? Not quite that far yet. So if we run that query, for example, you can see that I've now got two and I've also added the ability to filter by slug, where slug is the the file name essentially.

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So, in this case North Star well, then filter by a particular one um for pulling out single dashboard. That's awesome! um How does it work so it's treated very similarly to every other model and the application, except that it isn't backed by the record it's backed by yaml files instead, um so let's start that level. So then ee models, product analytics and we've got a two new um classes, dashboard and widget.

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So project now has have this. This method called self dot for project, so you can say project.4 project pass it in a project and it will look for all of the files in there check whether a particular the correct file exists and then convert that into one of these objects and also pre-populate all the widgets as well. The logic for doing so is in here um so definitely check the code out if you're interested in how that works.

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um Whilst we've got that information, you can then see. We've now created some new graphql types.

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So if I've got dashboard type, widget type, um there's nothing particular exciting going on here delegated the ability to see a dashboard to its project, developer access, so developers or above.

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um What else is there to cover.

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That's about it so far, one thing that I'm gonna have to see as time goes on is how well the scales, because at the moment almost every request is going to hit gittily quite regularly um the resolver's aware of that, but again it could cause troubles in the future so far. um Yeah. Let me ask any questions.