[feature_request] Add total user stargazers object to GraphQL API

[rickstaa]

Currently, there is no easy way to fetch the total stars a specific user has received on his/her repositories using the GraphQL API. Currently, this information is only available under the repositoryconnection object. Providing users with a way to retrieve their total number of starGazers without looping through all repositories would improve the GraphQL API.

Current behaviour

Current graphQL query:

query userInfo($login: String!) {
  user(login: $login) {
    name
    login
    repositories(first: 100, ownerAffiliations: OWNER, orderBy: {direction: DESC, field: STARGAZERS}) {
      nodes {
        name
        stargazers {
          totalCount
        }
        }
        pageInfo {
          hasNextPage
          endCursor
        }
      }
  }
}

Current GraphQL variables

{"login": "rickstaa"}

This will return the stargazers per repository.

New behaviour

Making the stargazers objects available under the user level would improve the behaviour.

New graphQL query:

query userInfo($login: String!) {
  user(login: $login) {
    name
    login
    stargazers {
      totalCount
    }
  }
}

New GraphQL variables

{"login": "rickstaa"}

Alternatives I considered

Using github pagination

I currently use GraphQL pagination to loop through all repositories. This, however, will take a long time.

[Riduidel]

Isn't it already implemented ?

When I do the following query

query {
  repository(owner: "django", name: "django") {
    stargazers(first: 100, after:"") {
      pageInfo {
        endCursor
        hasNextPage
        hasPreviousPage
        startCursor
      }
      edges {
        starredAt
        node {
          login
        }
      }
    }
    stargazerCount
  }
}

I have my stargazerCount available in response JSON

{
  "data": {
    "repository": {
      "stargazers": {
        "pageInfo": {
          "endCursor": "...",
          "hasNextPage": true,
          "hasPreviousPage": false,
          "startCursor": "..."
        },
        "edges": [
...
        ]
      },
      "stargazerCount": 79939
    }
  }
}