A way to inject a Bucklescript identifier in `%raw`

[jfrolich]

It would be great to have a way to inject Bucklescript identifiers in %raw extension points. We can do it somehow by creating a raw function that receives parameters.

For the use-case of graphql-ppx we need to support tagged template literals for compatibility with clients. I see that this is not top of mind to support in Bucklescript for the moment. But if we can have a way to inject an identifier in a %raw (such as Relay.graphql) we can make it work.

Not sure how the implementation would work (perhaps a way to inline the function call?).

[jfrolich]

I could really use this now in graphql-ppx are there any plans to do this?

[jfrolich]

This could be solved by something like this:

[%raw.ident ((gql, fragment1) => gql ++ "`query {
     ...
   } ${" ++ fragment1 ++ "}")(Apollo.templateTag, Fragment.query)];

raw.ident would get passed the javascript identifiers as strings. Or maybe a function call is not necessary and it would just pick up on the identifiers used.

[jfrolich]

teamwalnut/graphql-ppx#242

@bobzhang a number of people are using bundlers that do not support require, so I cannot use that hack for using template tags for GraphQL in graphql-ppx. A long time ago in discord you said there would be something to address this, do you think there is a way to make this possible in the compiler?

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