Feature request: Normalize auto alias

Users Dgraph
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So when using @normalize to flatten your data currently you have to manually alias every member of the parent structure.

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What you really want though is for this somehow to magically be taken care of for you.

Someone on the discord suggested this, which is not bad! I have no idea how hard this is to implement of course. :slight_smile:

query {
  n(func: type(Post)) @normalize(auto_alias: True) {
    uid
    name
    author {
      author.uid: uid
      author.name: name
    }
    comments {
      comments.comment: comment
      author {
        comments.author.uid: uid
        comments.author.name
      }
    }
  }
}
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So the thought is if the normalize directive could be controlled with a property to auto alias every depth by adding a edge dotted notation without manually doing so. All the dev would have to add is the auto_alias:true ← whatever, and then all of the aliases would be generated at runtime.

query {
  n(func: type(Post)) @normalize(auto_alias: True) {
    uid
    name
    author {
      uid
      name
    }
    comments {
      comment
      author {
        uid
        name
      }
    }
  }
}