laboratory

The laboratory configuration object allows you to control the Hive Laboratory interface (the in-browser GraphQL IDE served by the router), and lets you pre-populate it with default headers, operations, and collections.

Options

enabled

• Type: boolean
• Default: true
• Environment Variable: LABORATORY_ENABLED

The enabled property controls whether the Hive Laboratory interface is enabled or disabled.

laboratory:
  enabled: true

global_headers

• Type: object (map of header name to value)

Headers sent on every request the Laboratory makes to the router.

laboratory:
  global_headers:
    X-Env: staging

operations

• Type: object[]

Operations to pre-populate the Laboratory with. Each operation opens in its own tab the first time a browser sees it. Operations the user creates themselves are preserved, and if a user closes a seeded tab it stays closed. The content of a seeded operation is refreshed from this configuration on every page load, so edits a user makes to a seeded operation are not kept.

Each entry supports:

• name: string - Tab title. Must be unique across all seeded operations.
• query: string - The GraphQL document.
• variables: object - The operation's variables. Values can be nested objects, arrays, numbers, booleans, or strings, and support {{name}} references to the Laboratory's environment variables (a templated value resolves to a string).
• headers: object - Headers sent with this operation only, as a map of header name to value. Values support {{name}} environment variable references.
• extensions: object - The operation's GraphQL extensions. Values support {{name}} environment variable references.

laboratory:
  operations:
    - name: GetHello
      query: |
        query GetHello {
          hello
        }
      variables:
        limit: 10
      headers:
        X-Env: staging

collections

• Type: object[]

Collections to pre-populate the Laboratory with. A collection is a named, reusable group of operations shown in the Laboratory's sidebar, letting you hand users a labelled set of standard queries they can browse and run. Seeded collections are refreshed from this configuration on every page load; collections a user creates themselves are never touched.

Each entry supports:

• name: string - Sidebar label. Must be unique across all seeded collections.
• operations: object[] - Operations in the collection (same shape as operations above). Must contain at least one operation, and names must be unique within the collection.

laboratory:
  collections:
    - name: Onboarding
      operations:
        - name: GetHello
          query: |
            query GetHello {
              hello
            }
          headers:
            X-Env: staging