?_labels= and ?_label=COL to expand foreign keys in JSON/CSV

These new querystring arguments can be used to request expanded foreign keys
in both JSON and CSV formats.

?_labels=on turns on expansions for ALL foreign key columns

?_label=COLUMN1&_label=COLUMN2 can be used to pick specific columns to expand

e.g. `Street_Tree_List.json?_label=qSpecies&_label=qLegalStatus`

    {
        "rowid": 233,
        "TreeID": 121240,
        "qLegalStatus": {
            "value" 2,
            "label": "Private"
        }
        "qSpecies": {
            "value": 16,
            "label": "Sycamore"
        }
        "qAddress": "91 Commonwealth Ave",
        ...
    }

The labels option also works for the HTML and CSV views.

HTML defaults to `?_labels=on`, so if you pass `?_labels=off` you can disable
foreign key expansion entirely - or you can use `?_label=COLUMN` to request
just specific columns.

If you expand labels on CSV you get additional columns in the output:

`/Street_Tree_List.csv?_label=qLegalStatus`

    rowid,TreeID,qLegalStatus,qLegalStatus_label...
    1,141565,1,Permitted Site...
    2,232565,2,Undocumented...

I also refactored the existing foreign key expansion code.

Closes #233. Refs #266.
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@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ from .base import BaseView, DatasetteError
class DatabaseView(BaseView):
async def data(self, request, name, hash):
async def data(self, request, name, hash, default_labels=False):
if request.args.get("sql"):
if not self.ds.config["allow_sql"]:
raise DatasetteError("sql= is not allowed", status=400)