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This pull request adds a string type as a field of the address, thus canonicalizing that all Nodes and Edges have a Type. This allows for simpler PluginAdapters, and simpler implementation of the GitHub plugin (as it no longer needs to invent its own mechanism for storing types). I explored making the Address interface generic, with a Type parameter that is a subtype of string. Unfortunately, Flow type resolution seems to have an exponential performance degradation with many subtyped parameters, and adding the extra type parameters to Graph.merge resulted in my flow instance locking. Maybe we can explore adding the subtypes later. In the GitHub plugin, we entirely do away with the NodeIDs, but we still have EdgeIDs. I plan to remove the need for EdgeIDs in a separate PR which will enforce uniqueness of (srcAddress, dstAddress, pluginName, type) tuples, so that explicitly generating IDs for edges will be unnecessary. In the mean time, I bifurcated the makeAddress function in the GitHub plugin to makeEdgeAddress and makeNodeAddress. Test plan: Flow and unit tests all pass. Inspect snapshots, and verify that all the changes are reasonable. Note that since we order by serialized address, adding the type field to address has changed the snapshot order in a few cases. Close #103
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