[SOLVED] GraphQL Explorer not connecting to collection on localhost

The docs (https://appwrite.io/docs/server/databases?sdk=graphql-default#databasesListCollections) have this:

query {
    databasesListCollections(
        databaseId: "[DATABASE_ID]"
    ) {
        total
        collections {
            _id
            _createdAt
            _updatedAt
            _permissions
            databaseId
            name
            enabled
            documentSecurity
            attributes
            indexes {
                key
                type
                status
                attributes
            }
        }
    }
}

so you might want to start with that

and then the explorer gives a warning about attributes so you can remove it to quickly test an API call

do i need to reference a collection or do queries search across all collections in a database?

What do you mean? this API call is list collections...it lists all the collections in a database

list documents will give you the documents in a collection: https://appwrite.io/docs/server/databases?sdk=graphql-default#databasesListDocuments

sometimes a message pops up and says "something is broken"

no these are not the right headers. see the list of headers here: https://appwrite.io/docs/rest#headers

oohhh..

and you never answered how you're accessing the Appwrite console. What's the URL you use to access your Appwrite console?

http://localhost/console/

this error says something about file variables...can you open the variables pane at the bottom left of the screenshot you shared?

variables is empty

how about files at the bottom of the variables pane

0 files

what exactly shows there?

sure...make sure to fill in the appropriate values, though

they are filled

There you go. and the explorer can help give you hints about what's wrong with the query

interesting though i got this error whether or not i had the project and key filled out

yes because the query itself is invalied. you can see attributes and index have a red underline in the query

I can connect thank you

[SOLVED] GraphQL Explorer not connecting to collection on localhost