feat: add support for recursive queries#407
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Adds the ability for queries to begin fetching all nested documents regardless of their collection name. Previously, the only similar mechanic available was the
all_descendantsparameter (available via thecollection_groupclass), which is imperfectly named and in fact only fetches all descendants with the sameparentname. So, for example:In this case, running
db.collection_group('users').get()would fetch/users/alfredand/users/alfred/users/alfreds-butler, but NOT/users/alfred/pets/scruffy.Not that this is decidedly not all of Alfred's descendants.
And thus: Recursive Queries ™️. Starting now, to fetch all three documents from the above hypothetical, a developer would run one of these two options: