Summary:
- When importing into a Ref column, use lookupOne() formula for correct previews.
- When selecting columns to import into a Ref column, now a Numeric column like
'Order' will produce two options: "Order" and "Order (as row ID)".
- Fixes exports to correct the formatting of visible columns. This addresses multiple bugs:
1. Formatting wasn't used, e.g. a Ref showing a custom-formatted date was still presented as YYYY-MM-DD in CSVs.
2. Ref showing a Numeric column was formatted as if a row ID (e.g. `Table1[1.5]`), which is very wrong.
- If importing into a table that doesn't have a primary view, don't switch page after import.
Refactorings:
- Generalize GenImporterView to be usable in more cases; removed near-duplicated logic from node side
- Some other refactoring in importing code.
- Fix field/column option selection in ValueParser
- Add NUM() helper to turn integer-valued floats into ints, useful for "as row ID" lookups.
Test Plan: Added test cases for imports into reference columns, updated Exports test fixtures.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3875
Summary:
This diff adds a new `BulkAddOrUpdateRecord` user action which is what is sounds like:
- A bulk version of the existing `AddOrUpdateRecord` action.
- Much more efficient for operating on many records than applying many individual actions.
- Column values are specified as maps from `colId` to arrays of values as usual.
- Produces bulk versions of `AddRecord` and `UpdateRecord` actions instead of many individual actions.
Examples of users wanting to use something like `AddOrUpdateRecord` with large numbers of records:
- https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1651789710290879
- https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1660743493480119
- https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1660333148491559
- https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1663069291726159
I tested what made many `AddOrUpdateRecord` actions slow in the first place. It was almost entirely due to producing many individual `AddRecord` user actions. About half of that time was for processing the resulting `AddRecord` doc actions. Lookups and updates were not a problem. With these changes, the slowness is gone.
The Python user action implementation is more complex but there are no surprises. The JS API now groups `records` based on the keys of `require` and `fields` so that `BulkAddOrUpdateRecord` can be applied to each group.
Test Plan: Update and extend Python and DocApi tests.
Reviewers: jarek, paulfitz
Reviewed By: jarek, paulfitz
Subscribers: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3642
Summary:
Treat the column type 'Attachments' as equivalent to 'RefList:_grist_Attachments' in a few places, because that's essentially what it is. The main goal was to fix parsing strings representing attachments (reflists).
Also removed an unused function.
Test Plan: Tested manually that pasting a CSV/JSON string representation of an attachments reflists works now.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3338
Summary:
- Removed string parsing and some type guessing code from parse_data.py. That logic is now implicitly done by ValueGuesser by leaving the initial column type as Any. parse_data.py mostly comes into play when importing files (e.g. Excel) containing values that already have types, i.e. numbers and dates.
- 0s and 1s are treated as numbers instead of booleans to keep imports lossless.
- Removed dateguess.py and test_dateguess.py.
- Changed what `guessDateFormat` does when multiple date formats work equally well for the given data, in order to be consistent with the old dateguess.py.
- Columns containing numbers are now always imported as Numeric, never Int.
- Removed `NullIfEmptyParser` because it was interfering with the new system. Its purpose was to avoid pointlessly changing a column from Any to Text when no actual data was inserted. A different solution to that problem was already added to `_ensure_column_accepts_data` in the data engine in a recent related diff.
Test Plan:
- Added 2 `nbrowser/Importer2` tests.
- Updated various existing tests.
- Extended testing of `guessDateFormat`. Added `guessDateFormats` to show how ambiguous dates are handled internally.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3302
Summary:
Change NumberParse.parse to return not just the parsed number but also information it gathered along the way about how the input string was formatted.
Use this in the new NumberParse.guessOptions to guess the actual widget options based on an array of strings.
Use NumberParse.guessOptions in TypeConversion (for when a user explicitly chooses to change type) and in ValueGuesser (for guesses about strings entered into empty columns).
Test Plan: Adds unit tests for NumberParse and ValueGuesser and updates the TypeChange2 nbrowser test.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3294
Summary:
Adds `common/ValueGuesser.ts` with logic for guessing column type and widget options (only for dates/datetimes) from an array of strings, and converting the strings to the guessed type in a lossless manner, so that converting back to Text gives the original values.
Changes `_ensure_column_accepts_data` in Python to call an exported JS method using the new logic where possible.
Test Plan: Added `test/common/ValueGuesser.ts` to unit test the core guessing logic and a DocApi end-to-end test for what happens to new columns.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3290
Summary:
As designed in https://grist.quip.com/fZSrAnJKgO5j/Add-or-Update-Records-API
Current `POST /records` adds records, and `PATCH /records` updates them by row ID. This adds `PUT /records` to 'upsert' records, applying the AddOrUpdate user action. PUT was chosen because it's idempotent. Using a separate method (instead of inferring based on the request body) also cleanly separates validation, documentation, etc.
The name `require` for the new property was suggested by Paul because `where` isn't very clear when adding records.
Test Plan: New DocApi tests
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3251
Summary: This is https://phab.getgrist.com/D3205 plus some changes (https://github.com/dsagal/grist/compare/type-convert...type-convert-server?expand=1) that move the conversion process to the backend. A new user action ConvertFromColumn uses `call_external` so that the data engine can delegate back to ActiveDoc. Code for creating formatters and parsers is significantly refactored so that most of the logic is in `common` and can be used in different ways.
Test Plan: The original diff adds plenty of tests.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3240
Summary:
Previously, ref/reflist columns were formatted entirely based on their visible column, since they received values from the visible or display columns rather than the actual row IDs. This creates `ReferenceFormatter` and `ReferenceListFormatter` which still delegate most of the formatting work to a visible column formatter but fix a few issues:
- ReferenceList columns now actually use the options (e.g. date format) of the visible column to format their elements. Previously they were formatted generically because the visible column formatter wasn't expecting a list.
- Invalid references aren't formatted with an `#Invalid Ref` prefix.
- When the ref column displays the Row ID, it doesn't have a visible or display column. Previously this led to the references being formatted as just numbers in most cases, with special code in the widget to display them like `Table1[2]`. Now they are consistently formatted in that style throughout.
Test Plan: Updated existing tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3212
Summary: When editor is opened on any column and closed without entering any value, the column is converted to a text column.
Test Plan: browser tests
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3211
Summary:
- Adds a function `parseUserAction` for parsing strings in UserActions to `ValueParser.ts`
- Adds a boolean option `parseStrings` to use `parseUserAction` in `ActiveDoc.applyUserActions`, off by default.
- Uses `parseStrings` by default in DocApi (set `?noparse=true` in a request to disable) when adding/updating records through the `/data` or `/records` endpoints or in general with the `/apply` endpoint.
- Uses `parseStrings` for various actions in `ActiveDocImport`. Since most types are parsed in Python before these actions are constructed, this only affects references, which still look like errors in the import preview. Importing references can also easily still run into more complicated problems discussed in https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1639514844028200
Test Plan:
- Added tests to DocApi to compare behaviour with and without string parsing.
- Added a new browser test, fixture doc, and fixture CSV to test importing a file containing references.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3183
Summary:
Following discussion in https://phab.getgrist.com/D3164:
- Change createParser to accept docData and one or two metadata row IDs and let it extract the metadata, so it's more easily usable in the server.
- Change ViewFieldRec.valueParser observable to a function createValueParser.
Test Plan: Existing tests.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3172
Summary: Refactoring in preparation for parsing strings from the API. The plan is that the API code will only need to do a server-side version of the code in ViewFieldRec.valueParser (minus ReferenceUtils) which is quite minimal.
Test Plan: Nothing extra here, I don't think it's needed. This stuff will get tested more in a future diff which changes the API.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3164
Summary:
Add function parseDateTime which parses a string containing both date and time componenents, intended for parsing pasted strings.
Add DateTimeParser subclass of ValueParser.
Test Plan: Extended parseDate.ts and CopyPaste.ts tests.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3152
Summary:
Added ChoiceListParser capable of parsing JSON, CSVs, and other strings containing user-configured choices (e.g. separated by spaces)
I got a little carried away here. It works, and I can't think of any bugs, but it's complicated enough that there could be hidden edge cases or difficulties maintaining it in the future. The advantage of the current method is that it should work well for ambiguous or poorly formatted inputs, e.g. choices separated only by spaces or choices containing commas which are not escaped/quoted properly. The code can be vastly simplified if we don't try to support that and require that users paste proper JSON or CSVs.
Test Plan: Added a new file test/common/ChoiceListParser.ts with pure unit tests. Waiting for approval of the overall approach before adding to the nbrowser CopyPaste test.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3141
Summary:
Handle reference columns in ViewFieldRec.valueParser.
Extracted code for reuse from ReferenceEditor to look up values in the visible column. While I was at it, also extracted a bit of common code from ReferenceEditor and ReferenceListEditor into a new class ReferenceUtils. More refactoring could be done in this area but it's out of scope.
Changed NTextEditor to use field.valueParser, which affects numeric and reference fields. In particular this means numbers are parsed on data entry, it doesn't change anything for references.
Test Plan:
Added more CopyPaste testing to test references.
Tested entering slightly formatted numbers in NumberFormatting.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3094
Summary: Adds parseDateStrict function based on parseDate, uses it in DateParser subclass of ValueParser.
Test Plan:
Tweaked parseDate test to check parseDateStrict.
Extended test in CopyPaste to test parsing dates as well as numbers.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3088
Summary:
Add ValueParser file, base class, and subclasses for column types. Only NumericParser is used for now.
Add valueParser field to ViewFieldRec.
Use valueParser when parsing pasted text data in Grid and Detail views.
Test Plan: Add test to nbrowser CopyPaste suite, copying into a numeric column with different currency and locale settings.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3082
Dmitry S
Alex Hall
Jarosław Sadziński