Flattening a particular node?

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1

Is there a way in GraphQL to “flatten” a particular node:

{
  graph(func: eq(msisdn,"operator")){

    Transfer  @filter(ge(at, "2017-06-30T11:00:00Z") and lt(at, "2017-06-30T12:00:00Z")) {

      xid
      amount
      from
      to
      at
      t
      type {
        xid
      }
    }
  }
}

produces:

"Transfer": [
          {
            "xid": "xxx",
            "amount": 11881700,
            "to": "yyy",
            "at": "2017-06-30T11:24:40Z",
            "type": [
              {
                "xid": "TRANSFER"
              }
            ]
          },

but it would be nice to have:

"Transfer": [
          {
            "xid": "xxx",
            "amount": 11881700,
            "to": "yyy",
            "at": "2017-06-30T11:24:40Z",
            "type":  "TRANSFER"
          },
2

Checkout @normalize directive https://docs.dgraph.io/query-language/#normalize-directive.

3

Yes, I’ve already experimented with that. That flattens everything. I just want to flatten the “Type” node into the “Transfer” node.

4

I see, what you are looking for is normalize for subqueries such that it is only applied on the subgraph starting at type. We have an open issue for this Support for @cascade and @normalize directives for subqueries · Issue #1755 · dgraph-io/dgraph · GitHub.

5

Yes, that is exactly what I want. I wonder how hard that would be to implement? This is open source after all!

6

Shouldn’t be very hard. Happy to accept a PR if you want to give it a try. Or you can leave a comment on the issue that you find it useful and we can try and prioritize it.