protected async Task HandleRequestAsync(
            HttpContext context,
            AllowedContentType contentType)
        {
            // first we need to get the request executor to be able to execute requests.
            IRequestExecutor requestExecutor = await GetExecutorAsync(context.RequestAborted);

            IHttpRequestInterceptor requestInterceptor = requestExecutor.GetRequestInterceptor();
            IErrorHandler           errorHandler       = requestExecutor.GetErrorHandler();

            HttpStatusCode?  statusCode = null;
            IExecutionResult?result;

            try
            {
                // next we parse the GraphQL request.
                IReadOnlyList <GraphQLRequest> requests =
                    await GetRequestsFromBody(context.Request, context.RequestAborted);

                switch (requests.Count)
                {
                // if the HTTP request body contains no GraphQL request structure the
                // whole request is invalid and we will create a GraphQL error response.
                case 0:
                {
                    statusCode = HttpStatusCode.BadRequest;
                    IError error = errorHandler.Handle(ErrorHelper.RequestHasNoElements());
                    result = QueryResultBuilder.CreateError(error);
                    break;
                }

                // if the HTTP request body contains a single GraphQL request and we do have
                // the batch operations query parameter specified we need to execute an
                // operation batch.
                //
                // An operation batch consists of a single GraphQL request document that
                // contains multiple operations. The batch operation query parameter
                // defines the order in which the operations shall be executed.
                case 1 when context.Request.Query.ContainsKey(_batchOperations):
                {
                    string operationNames = context.Request.Query[_batchOperations];

                    if (TryParseOperations(operationNames, out IReadOnlyList <string>?ops))
                    {
                        result = await ExecuteOperationBatchAsync(
                            context, requestExecutor, requestInterceptor, requests[0], ops);
                    }
                    else
                    {
                        IError error = errorHandler.Handle(ErrorHelper.InvalidRequest());
                        statusCode = HttpStatusCode.BadRequest;
                        result     = QueryResultBuilder.CreateError(error);
                    }

                    break;
                }

                // if the HTTP request body contains a single GraphQL request and
                // no batch query parameter is specified we need to execute a single
                // GraphQL request.
                //
                // Most GraphQL requests will be of this type where we want to execute
                // a single GraphQL query or mutation.
                case 1:
                {
                    result = await ExecuteSingleAsync(
                        context, requestExecutor, requestInterceptor, requests[0]);

                    break;
                }

                // if the HTTP request body contains more than one GraphQL request than
                // we need to execute a request batch where we need to execute multiple
                // fully specified GraphQL requests at once.
                default:
                    result = await ExecuteBatchAsync(
                        context, requestExecutor, requestInterceptor, requests);

                    break;
                }
            }
            catch (GraphQLRequestException ex)
            {
                // A GraphQL request exception is thrown if the HTTP request body couldn't be
                // parsed. In this case we will return HTTP status code 400 and return a
                // GraphQL error result.
                statusCode = HttpStatusCode.BadRequest;
                result     = QueryResultBuilder.CreateError(errorHandler.Handle(ex.Errors));
            }
            catch (GraphQLException ex)
            {
                // This allows extensions to throw GraphQL exceptions in the GraphQL interceptor.
                statusCode = null; // we let the serializer determine the status code.
                result     = QueryResultBuilder.CreateError(ex.Errors);
            }
            catch (Exception ex)
            {
                statusCode = HttpStatusCode.InternalServerError;
                IError error = errorHandler.CreateUnexpectedError(ex).Build();
                result = QueryResultBuilder.CreateError(error);
            }

            try
            {
                // in any case we will have a valid GraphQL result at this point that can be written
                // to the HTTP response stream.
                Debug.Assert(result is not null, "No GraphQL result was created.");
                await WriteResultAsync(context.Response, result, statusCode,
                                       context.RequestAborted);
            }
            finally
            {
                // query results use pooled memory an need to be disposed after we have
                // used them.
                if (result is IAsyncDisposable asyncDisposable)
                {
                    await asyncDisposable.DisposeAsync();
                }

                if (result is IDisposable disposable)
                {
                    disposable.Dispose();
                }
            }
        }