Ent: Feature request: specify fields to select

[ernado]

We can limit field set we are selecting from database to allow optimizations (e.g. index-only SELECT)

Also would be interesting to integrate this with graphql later.
Not sure about API tho, let's discuss?

[a8m]

We can limit field set we are selecting from database to allow optimizations (e.g. index-only SELECT)

Also would be interesting to integrate this with graphql later.

There is an option for query specific fields, but it's not good enough as we wanted it to be:

names, err := client.Pet.
    Query().
    Select(pet.FieldName).
    Strings(ctx)

We already started to work on GraphQL integration, and we plan to tackle this issue as well. I hope to OSS some of it in the near future (in a separate repo).

If you think there are additional stuff to discuss here, keep the issue open. Otherwise, let’s close it.

[ernado]

Great, thank you! Let's close it for now.

[dilipkk-foyernet]

@a8m is this integrated with entgql?