Gateway and/or federated schema disregard description strings

Packages versions:

• @apollo/federation@0.6.2
• @apollo/gateway@0.6.5
• apollo-server@2.5.1

Expected behaviour:

Description strings (BlockString-style) will be rendered in GraphQL Playground.

Actual behaviour:

Description strings do not render.

However, when I add this schema to a standard Apollo server (no gateway/federation), the description strings appear in GraphQL Playground with their types/fields as expected.

Here’s a sample of the documentation I’ve written for my schema:

"""
An ISO-8601-encoded UTC date string.
"""
scalar DateTime

"""
A user is an account that can create content.
"""
type User @key(fields: "id") {
  "The unique ID of the user."
  id: ID!
  "The date and time the user account was created."     
  createdAt: DateTime!
  "The user's email."
  email: String!
}

[JacksonKearl]

Hey @mandiwise, thanks for diving into this a bit further! That looks to me like an issue with the parser rather than the original issue of not federating descriptions… but they might end up being the same thing in the end. I’ve created a seperate issue for now though.

[fu2re]

Still persist at 2.15.1