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Author SHA1 Message Date
Daniel Tschinder
8747ff8954 RFC: Block String
This RFC adds a new form of `StringValue`, the multi-line string, similar to that found in Python and Scala.

A multi-line string starts and ends with a triple-quote:

```
"""This is a triple-quoted string
and it can contain multiple lines"""
```

Multi-line strings are useful for typing literal bodies of text where new lines should be interpretted literally. In fact, the only escape sequence used is `\"""` and `\` is otherwise allowed unescaped. This is beneficial when writing documentation within strings which may reference the back-slash often:

```
"""
In a multi-line string \n and C:\\ are unescaped.
"""
```

The primary value of multi-line strings are to write long-form input directly in query text, in tools like GraphiQL, and as a prerequisite to another pending RFC to allow docstring style documentation in the Schema Definition Language.

Ref: graphql/graphql-js#926
2018-02-10 18:43:26 +01:00
Daniel Tschinder
46816a7cda Uniform parsing of queries with short-hand syntax with regular queries 2018-02-09 14:33:04 +01:00
Vladimir Razuvaev
9944a689bf Exclude nulls from serialized AST 2018-01-13 16:25:06 +07:00
Vladimir Razuvaev
1af902865b AST: new NodeList class for collections of nodes (vs array) to enable effective conversion of libgraphqlparser output to our AST tree 2017-07-21 22:29:59 +07:00