How to wire data to a deep component in react-router-relay?

Question

I have a route like this

<Route path="/search" component={Search}>

The basic Search component looks likes this

class Search extends React.Component {
  constructor (props) {
    super(props)
    this.state = {query: ''}
  }
  handleSubmit (event) {
    event.preventDefault()
    this.setState({query: this.refs.queryInput.value})
  }
  renderSearchResult() {
    if (this.state.query === '')
      return <EmptySearchResult />
    else
      return <SearchResult query={this.state.query}/>
  }
  render() {
    return (
      <div className="searchContainer">
        <div className="row">
          <div className="search">
            <form onSubmit={event => this.handleSubmit(event)}>
              <input className="searchInput" placeholder="robocop" ref="queryInput" />
            </form>
          </div>
        </div>
        <div className="row">
          {this.renderSearchResult()}
        </div>
      </div>
    )
  }
}

SearchResult relay container looks like this

class SearchResult extends React.Component {
  render() {
    var {viewer: {moviesByTitle: movies}} = this.props;
    return (
      <div className="searchResult">
        {movies.edges.map((edge,i) =>
          <div key={i} className="rowItem scrollRowItem">
            <Movie movie={edge.node} />
          </div>)}
      </div>
    )
  }
}

export default Relay.createContainer(SearchResult, {
  initialVariables: {
    query: '???'
  },
  fragments: {
    viewer: () => Relay.QL`
      fragment on User {
        moviesByTitle(title: $query, first: 10) {
          edges {
            node {
              ${Movie.getFragment('movie')}
            }
          }
        }
      }
    `
  }
})

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Error:

Warning: RelayContainer: Expected prop `viewer` to be supplied to `SearchResult`, but got `undefined`. Pass an explicit `null` if this is intentional.

What I was trying to do inside my Search component (changes in bold)

const ViewerQueries = {
  viewer: () => Relay.QL`query { viewer }`
}

...

renderSearchResult() {
  if (this.state.query === '')
    return <EmptySearchResult />
  else
    return <SearchResult query={this.state.query} queries={ViewerQueries} />
}

But of course that doesn't work because the queries need to somehow be attached to the Route

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Questions

1. My Search Component is just a presentational component that does not need data of its own. Instead, it just feeds a query prop to the SearchResult relay container. How should I structure the Components and Relay containers to attach them to the Route properly?

2. How can I use the SearchResult query prop to set a variable in the relay query fragment?

3. I don't understand the "viewer" abstraction in general – most examples I've seen are very contrived and don't show how they'd work in a more realistic setting; eg users with different access to different resources, or different parts of your program that are intended to view different slices of data

Answer 1

Using Relay's modern API, compose a refetchContainer from SearchResult component because of the need "an option to execute a new query with different variables and render the response of that query instead when the request comes back".

import React, { Component } from 'react';
import debounce from 'debounce';
import { graphql, createRefetchContainer } from 'react-relay';

class SearchResult extends React.Component {
  componentWillReceiveProps(nextProps) {
    if (this.props.query != nextProps.query) {
      debounce(() => this._searchMovies(), 600);
    }
  }

  _searchMovies() {
    const refetchVariables = fragmentVariables => ({
      query: this.props.query
  });

    this.props.relay.refetch(refetchVariables, null);
  }

  render() {
    var { viewer: { moviesByTitle: movies } } = this.props;
    return (
      <div className="searchResult">
        {movies.edges.map((edge, i) =>
          <div key={i} className="rowItem scrollRowItem">
            <Movie movie={edge.node} />
          </div>)}
      </div>
    )
  }
}


// Similar query syntax as Relay Classic
// Only syntactic difference is with absence of Movie.getFragment
module.exports = createRefetchContainer(SearchResult, {
    viewer: graphql`
      fragment SearchResult_viewer on SearchResult {
        @argumentDefinitions(
          query: {type: "String", defaultValue: ""}
        ) {
        moviesByTitle(title: $query, first: 10) {
          edges {
            node {
              ...Movie_movie
            }
          }
        }
      }`
    },
    graphql`
      query MoviesRefetchQuery($query: String) {
        viewer {
          ...SearchResult_viewer @arguments(query: $query)
        }
      }
   `);