Add support for "flattening" fragment-spreads (#121)
## Summary:
One common use of fragment spreads is as the entirety of a field's
selection, e.g.
```graphql
query MyQuery {
myField {
...MyFragment
}
}
```
In this case, by default, genqlient generates a wrapper type
`MyQueryMyFieldMyType`, which just embeds `MyFragment`. This makes
sense if you later want to add more fields in addition to the fragment
spread. But if you don't -- and you did the fragment because you want
to share types, it's an extra layer of indirection. (Which becomes
especially onerous if `myField` has list type (`[MyType!]`), such that
it's not just an extra attribute-access to get to `MyFragment`.)
The new option `# @genqlient(flatten: true)` simplifies this situation:
if applied to `myField` is skips the wrapper type;
`MyQueryResponse.MyField` will simply have type `MyFragment` (or
`[]MyFragment`, or whatever). This should hopefully make the `typename`
option, which has more limitations, less necessary.
Note that in #30 the initial idea was to support this for fields as
well. This would require significant additional complexity in the
JSON-(un)marshaling code, and has proven less necessary, so I
implemented this option only for fragment-spreads for now. With that
restriction, it was shockingly simple; we have to hook into a bunch of
different places, but they're all quite simple, since the structure of
the Go types still matches the structure in GraphQL.
Issue: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/issues/30
## Test plan:
make check
Author: benjaminjkraft
Reviewers: csilvers, dnerdy, aberkan, jvoll, mahtabsabet, MiguelCastillo, StevenACoffman
Required Reviewers:
Approved By: csilvers, dnerdy
Checks: ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Lint, ✅ Test (1.17), ✅ Test (1.16), ✅ Test (1.15), ✅ Test (1.14), ✅ Lint
Pull Request URL: https://github.com/Khan/genqlient/pull/121
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### New features:
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- genqlient's types are now safe to JSON-marshal, which can be useful for putting them in a cache, for example. See the [docs](FAQ.md#-let-me-json-marshal-my-response-objects) for details.
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- The new `flatten` option in the `# @genqlient` directive allows for a simpler form of type-sharing using fragment spreads. See the [docs](FAQ.md#-shared-types-between-different-parts-of-the-query) for details.
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