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Author SHA1 Message Date
Dmitry S
17569561bf (core) Fix issue that ints would be imported with a trailing ".0" from Google Sheets.
Summary:
Whole numbers, when imported from Excel into a Text column show up
without decimals (e.g. "300"), but when imported from Google Sheets show
up with decimals (e.g. "300.0"). The decimals are hard for end-users to
remove. Fix by treating whole numbers consistently as ints.

Test Plan: Added a fixture reproducing the issue, and a test case.

Reviewers: georgegevoian

Reviewed By: georgegevoian

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3800
2023-02-26 15:24:15 -05:00
Dmitry S
d70a7209f7 (core) Attempt to fix test_formula_prompt test broken by a merge
Test Plan: Tests should pass

Reviewers: jarek

Reviewed By: jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3797
2023-02-13 08:51:54 -05:00
Dmitry S
9d4eeda480 (core) Python optimizations to speed up data engine
Summary:
- A bunch of optimizations guided by python profiling (esp. py-spy)
- Big one is optimizing Record/RecordSet attribute access
- Adds tracemalloc printout when running test_replay with PYTHONTRACEMALLOC=1 (on PY3)
  (but memory size is barely affected by these changes)

- Testing with RECORD_SANDBOX_BUFFERS_DIR, loading and calculating a particular
  very large doc (CRM), time taken improved from 73.9s to 54.8s (26% faster)

Test Plan: No behavior changes intended; relying on existing tests to verify that.

Reviewers: georgegevoian

Reviewed By: georgegevoian

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3781
2023-02-09 12:49:58 -05:00
Jarosław Sadziński
6e3f0f2b35 (core) Porting back AI formula backend
Summary: This is a backend part for the formula AI.

Test Plan: New tests

Reviewers: paulfitz

Reviewed By: paulfitz

Subscribers: cyprien

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3786
2023-02-08 17:15:59 +01:00
Paul Fitzpatrick
e5e44c786a add a script for copying schema information from python to typescript
There was no script for updating typescript schema information after
a python-based document migration. Moving one in here, along with its
test. Tweaked the code slightly to work with grist-core's directory
structure. Also fixed a formatting error in mocha calls that was resulting
in some root tests not running.
2023-01-17 15:54:41 -05:00
Jarosław Sadziński
e79613b0ed (core) Restoring separated transform columns
Summary:
Fix for a bug that prevented two users to change column types at
the same time.

Test Plan: Added and updated

Reviewers: georgegevoian

Reviewed By: georgegevoian

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3745
2023-01-03 17:54:16 +01:00
Paul Fitzpatrick
472a9a186e (core) control the distribution of attachment metadata
Summary:
for users who don't automatically have deep rights
to the document, provide them with attachment metadata only
for rows they have access to. This is a little tricky to
do efficiently. We provide attachment metadata when an
individual table is fetched, rather than on initial document
load, so we don't block that load on a full document scan.
We provide attachment metadata to a client when we see that
we are shipping rows mentioning particular attachments,
without making any effort to keep track of the metadata they
already have.

Test Plan: updated tests

Reviewers: dsagal, jarek

Reviewed By: dsagal, jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3722
2022-12-22 09:10:30 -05:00
Paul Fitzpatrick
6dce083484 (core) add a GVISOR_USE_DEFAULT_USER flag to support different gvisor versions
Summary:
This is just a convenience for myself. I happen to have a version of
gvisor on my Linux dev machine that differs from what we use in our
containers. There's a small difference in user setup that only manifests
itself when importing files. Grist uses a directory readable only by
the creating user, created outside the container, and then accessed
within the container. For that to work, the user identities have to
line up exactly. This adds a flag I can set in my environment to make
things work. An alternative solution that doesn't require a flag
would be to make the temporary directories readable by other users,
but that seemed a bigger change than justified.

Ideally we'd make a very robust and easy to run sandbox for Linux
users, and I have ideas there for the future.

Test Plan: manual

Reviewers: dsagal

Reviewed By: dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3742
2022-12-21 18:08:17 -05:00
George Gevoian
e146f95c1c (core) Add new UI for writing memos
Summary:
Adds a new UI for writing access rule memos.

Migrates old memos (written as Python comments) to the new UI.

Test Plan: Browser and migration tests.

Reviewers: jarek, dsagal

Reviewed By: jarek

Subscribers: dsagal, paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3726
2022-12-12 17:52:01 -05:00
Paul Fitzpatrick
312d2331a8 (core) lock down modification of the _grist_Attachments table
Summary:
Rows in the _grist_Attachments table have a special lifecycle,
being created by a special method, and deleted via a special
process. All other modifications are now rejected, for simplicity.

Test Plan: added test

Reviewers: dsagal, jarek

Reviewed By: dsagal, jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3712
2022-11-22 11:30:54 -05:00
George Gevoian
1a6d427339 (core) Update sort and filter UI
Summary:
The sort and filter UI now has a more unified UI, with similar
capabilities that are accessible from different parts of Grist.
It's now also possible to pin individual filters to the filter bar,
which replaces the old toggle for showing all filters in the
filter bar.

Test Plan: Various tests (browser, migration, project).

Reviewers: jarek, dsagal

Reviewed By: jarek, dsagal

Subscribers: dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3669
2022-11-17 15:33:45 -05:00
Jarosław Sadziński
044d7a1e5c (core) Throwing error in PHONE_FORMAT when value is not a string
Summary:
Adding type check in the PHONE_FORMAT function. Default
conversion to string doesn't work well for floats.

Test Plan: Updated

Reviewers: dsagal

Reviewed By: dsagal

Subscribers: dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3701
2022-11-14 11:17:54 +01:00
Jarosław Sadziński
101450262c (core) Support for $ syntax in ACL rules
Summary: Adding support for the "$" syntax in ACL rules.

Test Plan: Updated

Reviewers: georgegevoian, dsagal

Reviewed By: georgegevoian, dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3692
2022-11-09 16:33:11 +01:00
Yohan Boniface
4ff5a2eaa7
Be more accepting with None value in headers candidate (#331)
We already filter out a line will only None values, and sometimes
Excel of LibreOffice mistakes the real number of columns adding
one or more that have no value at all.
2022-10-31 15:57:26 -04:00
Alex Hall
16a43edc2e (core) Upgrade friendly-traceback and its dependencies
Summary:
Upgrading the friendly-traceback package to include a fix that I specifically requested in https://github.com/friendly-traceback/friendly-traceback/issues/144 as a solution for the problem mentioned in https://grist.quip.com/HoSmAlvFax0j#MbTADAEcJb7 . Specifically, this shows a friendly explanation when using `len()` with a generator expression.

Also upgraded the dependencies `executing` and `stack_data` (which are mine) while I'm at it, although I don't expect this to really change anything.

Test Plan:
Existing tests. There was one test failure because of a new explanation about generic `Exception`s which I've suppressed.

Tested manually that the new explanation appears:

{F64605}

Reviewers: dsagal

Reviewed By: dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3687
2022-10-28 14:44:14 +02:00
Alex Hall
aa88c156e6 (core) Don't swallow TypeErrors in functions like SUM
Summary: Math functions like SUM which call `_chain` were catching `TypeError`s raised by the iterable arguments themselves, e.g. `SUM(r.A / r.B for r in $group)` where `r.A / r.B` raises a `TypeError` would silently return wrong results. This diff narrows the `try/catch` to only check whether the argument is iterable as intended, but not catch errors from the process of iterating.

Test Plan: Added Python unit test.

Reviewers: jarek

Reviewed By: jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3679
2022-10-25 12:15:13 +02:00
Alex Hall
89259371a5 (core) Respect sort_by in lookupOne, and allow reverse sorting
Summary:
Ensure that `lookupOne` (via `RecordSet.get_one`) pays attention to the `sort_by` parameter by picking the first of its sorted list of row IDs.

Allow specifying reverse sort order in `sort_by` by adding `"-"` before the column ID.

Suggested in https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1665756041063079

Test Plan: Extended Python lookup test

Reviewers: jarek

Reviewed By: jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3675
2022-10-24 20:10:08 +02:00
Dmitry S
0a8ce2178a (core) Add PHONE_FORMAT function using the phonenumberslight library
Summary:
Add phonenumberslite-8.12.57 to requirements
Implement PHONE_FORMAT function.

Test Plan: Added doctest test cases

Reviewers: jarek

Reviewed By: jarek

Subscribers: jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3665
2022-10-21 08:13:18 -04:00
Jarosław Sadziński
bfd7243fe2 (core) Comments
Summary:
First iteration for comments system for Grist.
- Comments are stored in a generic metatable `_grist_Cells`
- Each comment is connected to a particular cell (hence the generic name of the table)
- Access level works naturally for records stored in this table
-- User can add/read comments for cells he can see
-- User can't update/remove comments that he doesn't own, but he can delete them by removing cells (rows/columns)
-- Anonymous users can't see comments at all.
- Each comment can have replies (but replies can't have more replies)

Comments are hidden by default, they can be enabled by COMMENTS=true env variable.
Some things for follow-up
- Avatars, currently the user's profile image is not shown or retrieved from the server
- Virtual rendering for comments list in creator panel. Currently, there is a limit of 200 comments.

Test Plan: New and existing tests

Reviewers: georgegevoian, paulfitz

Reviewed By: georgegevoian

Subscribers: paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3509
2022-10-17 13:38:21 +02:00
Alex Hall
692ea4820f reorganise and comment on requirements files 2022-10-04 22:32:21 +02:00
Alex Hall
67c89f0d96 Remove requirements that were only there for messytables 2022-10-04 22:05:52 +02:00
Jarosław Sadziński
9628253fd8 (core) Adding new column in users table "ref" with unique identifier.
Summary:
There is a new column in users table called ref (user reference).
It holds user's unique reference number that can be used for features
that require some kind of ownership logic (like comments).

Test Plan: Updated tests

Reviewers: georgegevoian, paulfitz

Reviewed By: georgegevoian, paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3641
2022-10-04 15:19:28 +02:00
George Gevoian
cd64237dad (core) Allow duplicating tables from Raw Data page
Summary:
Adds a "Duplicate Table" menu option to the tables listed on
the Raw Data page. Clicking it opens a dialog that allows you to
make a copy of the table (with or without its data).

Test Plan: Python, server, and browser tests.

Reviewers: jarek, paulfitz

Reviewed By: jarek, paulfitz

Subscribers: jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3619
2022-09-29 08:59:42 -07:00
Alex Hall
792565976a (core) Show example values in formula autocomplete
Summary:
This diff adds a preview of the value of certain autocomplete suggestions, especially of the form `$foo.bar` or `user.email`. The main initial motivation was to show the difference between `$Ref` and `$Ref.DisplayCol`, but the feature is more general.

The client now sends the row ID of the row being edited (along with the table and column IDs which were already sent) to the server to fetch autocomplete suggestions. The returned suggestions are now tuples `(suggestion, example_value)` where `example_value` is a string or null. The example value is simply obtained by evaluating (in a controlled way) the suggestion in the context of the given record and the current user. The string representation is similar to the standard `repr` but dates and datetimes are formatted, and the whole thing is truncated for efficiency.

The example values are shown in the autocomplete popup separated from the actual suggestion by a number of spaces calculated to:

1. Clearly separate the suggestion from the values
2. Left-align the example values in most cases
3. Avoid having so much space such that connecting suggestions and values becomes visually difficult.

The tokenization of the row is then tweaked to show the example in light grey to deemphasise it.

Main discussion where the above was decided: https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1661795588100009

The diff also includes various other small improvements and fixes:

- The autocomplete popup is much wider to make room for long suggestions, particularly lookups, as pointed out in https://phab.getgrist.com/D3580#inline-41007. The wide popup is the reason a fancy solution was needed to position the example values. I didn't see a way to dynamically resize the popup based on suggestions, and it didn't seem like a good idea to try.
- The `grist` and `python` labels previously shown on the right are removed. They were not helpful (https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1659697086155179) and would get in the way of the example values.
- Fixed a bug in our custom tokenization that caused function arguments to be weirdly truncated in the middle: https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1661956353699169?thread_ts=1661953258.342739&cid=CDHABLZJT and https://grist.slack.com/archives/C069RUP71/p1659696778991339
- Hide suggestions involving helper columns like `$gristHelper_Display` or `Table.lookupRecords(gristHelper_Display=` (https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1661953258342739). The former has been around for a while and seems to be a mistake. The fix is simply to use `is_visible_column` instead of `is_user_column`. Since the latter is not used anywhere else, and using it in the first place seems like a mistake more than anything else, I've also removed the function to prevent similar mistakes in the future.
- Don't suggest private columns as lookup arguments: https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1662133416652499?thread_ts=1661795588.100009&cid=CDHABLZJT
- Only fetch fresh suggestions specifically after typing `lookupRecords(` or `lookupOne(` rather than just `(`, as this would needlessly hide function suggestions which could still be useful to see the arguments. However this only makes a difference when there are still multiple matching suggestions, otherwise Ace hides them anyway.

Test Plan: Extended and updated several Python and browser tests.

Reviewers: paulfitz

Reviewed By: paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3611
2022-09-28 19:42:36 +02:00
Alex Hall
1864b7ba5d (core) Add BulkAddOrUpdateRecord action for efficiency
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
2022-09-28 17:58:33 +02:00
Alex Hall
df65219729 (core) Remove messytables completely, particularly for excel imports
Summary: Mirror of https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/pull/289

Test Plan: In addition to the PR, tweaked one Excel fixture file and tests involving that and one other fixture.

Reviewers: paulfitz

Reviewed By: paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3640
2022-09-28 17:15:42 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
54703e2794 Remove messytables dependency from xlsx import 2022-09-21 14:20:19 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
045227cb52
Update sandbox/grist/imports/import_csv.py
Co-authored-by: Alex Hall <alex.mojaki@gmail.com>
2022-09-20 17:34:59 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
ce31d1632d
Update sandbox/grist/imports/import_csv.py
Co-authored-by: Alex Hall <alex.mojaki@gmail.com>
2022-09-20 17:34:41 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
57c8f9f4fe csv importer: mimic messytables defaults for now 2022-09-20 17:28:46 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
2544736aa8 Applying review from @alexmojaki 2022-09-20 17:22:28 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
9bbf66e50e wip: remove dependency to messytables 2022-09-20 17:22:28 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
410cf61d94 python(tests): print logging when running tests in verbose mode 2022-09-20 17:22:28 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
83985ab3cf test(import_csv): highlight differences between passed and returned options in parse_file 2022-09-20 16:29:23 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
462b66b7ee Add tests to cover CSV parsed options 2022-09-20 15:44:08 +02:00
Alex Hall
b1f5e061c1
Merge pull request #279 from yohanboniface/boolean-converter
Add BooleanConverter to map proper boolean cells to a Bool column
2022-09-20 14:34:00 +02:00
Paul Fitzpatrick
b9441cf8fd (core) updates from grist-core 2022-09-12 09:14:22 -04:00
Yohan Boniface
7bd895ef42 Add BooleanConverter to map proper boolean cells to a Bool column
Note that only proper boolean will be considered, but not integers
nor truthy or falsy strings.
2022-09-10 07:07:45 +02:00
Alex Hall
56624c4a95 (core) Fix undo error for automatically removed rows, especially in summary tables
Summary:
Fixes a bug noted here: https://grist.slack.com/archives/C069RUP71/p1662564341132349

This bug could happen quite easily as follows:

1. Have a formula in a summary table such as `$group.amount`. Typically there's also a `SUM` but that's not essential.
2. Find a group with nonzero values of `amount`.
3. Delete all rows in that group in the source table. Typically that just means one row in a lonely group.
4. The summary table row is automatically deleted.
5. Try to undo. This raises an error about trying to update a non-existent summary table row.

I tried to account for this undo problem in https://phab.getgrist.com/D3489 by not saving the updated value for `$group` when it was found to be empty. The reason this was insufficient is that `$group.amount` is immediately invalidated anyway when the source row(s) are deleted (I think because that's just how dependency relations involving references work) *and* the calculated value of `$group.amount` changes even if `$group` doesn't. For example, `$group.amount` may have previously been `[100, 200]`. After deleting the rows, `$group.amount` becomes `[0, 0]`. Keeping `$group` unchanged prevents `$group.amount` from just being `[]`, but deleting the source rows means that the amounts become the numeric default `0` which is still a change. This change in value is then noted which leads to saving an undo action to update the summary table record. All this happens in step 3 above, and the summary record is only deleted after that point.

This diff removes that special handling for `group` and instead adds a more general fix to `action_summary.py`. This inserts undo actions for deleted rows at the beginning of the undo list rather than at the end, which was already done for deleted tables and columns.

Test Plan: Python tests

Reviewers: dsagal

Reviewed By: dsagal

Subscribers: dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3626
2022-09-09 22:15:45 +02:00
Yohan Boniface
8bc5c7d595
Fix columns with falsy cells wrongly parsed as dates (#276)
Eg. before this commit, this table would result in Date columns:

| A     | B |
| ----- | -- |
| FALSE | 0 |

For now, even FALSE is parsed as Numeric (not sure why we don't have
a BooleanConverter).
2022-09-09 15:13:34 -04:00
Paul Fitzpatrick
bde44323c5 (core) apply some dependabot suggestions
Summary:
This applies the set of dependabot suggestions that are currently
passing tests on grist-core. There are a lot more suggestions to
come, an unusual number are not passing tests because tests were
briefly broken.

The list of suggestions is extracted from:

https://api.github.com/repos/gristlabs/grist-core/pulls?search=status:success+state:open

And then applied using:

  yarn upgrade package1@version1 package2@version2 ....

After application, any new entries in package.json are pruned, leaving
just updated entries and yarn.lock changes.

Non-trivial code updates include:
 * A change related to axios typing
 * A change related to jquery dropping `size()` in favor of `length`

Test Plan: existing tests should pass

Reviewers: jarek

Reviewed By: jarek

Subscribers: jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3621
2022-09-07 14:15:34 -04:00
Alex Hall
0a2bc56938 (core) Test undo for all Python summary table tests
Summary:
Undo often leads to errors, especially with summary tables. One example is here: https://grist.slack.com/archives/C069RUP71/p1662564341132349

This diff simply decorates all relevant tests in 3 files testing summary tables with `@test_engine.test_undo`. This didn't catch any new bugs or reveal the problem in the thread above, but it seems good to have.

Test Plan: this

Reviewers: jarek

Reviewed By: jarek

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3624
2022-09-07 18:02:02 +02:00
Alex Hall
42afb17e36 (core) Run and test imports only in Python 3, upgrade openpyxl, fix weird date handling
Summary:
Python 2 only needs to be supported for the sake of old documents and formulas. This doesn't apply to the separate sandboxes that parse files for imports. Using Python 3 only allows using newer libraries and library versions. In particular, the latest version of openpyxl doesn't support Python 2. This will also make it easier to make other similar changes in the future, such as replacing messytables with a modern library. See https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1661261829343999?thread_ts=1661260442.837959&cid=C0234CPPXPA

The latest openpyxl is better at handling a particular edge case with broken dates in Excel, but still doesn't quite do what we want, so we monkeypatch it. Discussion: https://grist.slack.com/archives/C02EGJ1FUCV/p1661440851911869?thread_ts=1661154219.515549&cid=C02EGJ1FUCV

Setting `preferredPythonVersion` to '3' in SafePythonComponent ensures that JS always creates import sandboxes that use Python 3. Within Python, a module used by all imports will raise an error in Python 2. Python unit tests of imports are now only run in Python 3, using the `load_tests` protocol of `unittest`.

Test Plan: Mostly existing tests. Added another strange date to the Excel fixture.

Reviewers: dsagal

Reviewed By: dsagal

Subscribers: dsagal

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3606
2022-09-02 16:27:34 +02:00
Alex Hall
1c43aed5dd (core) Upgrade sortedcontainers, python_dateutil, and html5lib for better Python 3.10 compatibility
Summary:
Based on https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/pull/251. It may not look like it, but there's very little going on in this diff:

- Tweak the DATEVALUE doctest for Python 2/3 compatibility.
- Mirrors the PR's changes to requirements3.txt in requirements.txt, i.e. make the same dependency upgrades in Python 2.
- Make the same upgrades in the thirdparty folder for the Python 2 nacl sandbox.

Test Plan: Updated one doctest for dateutil. Checked changelog of sortedcontainers. html5lib is only used by messytables and isn't actually relevant.

Reviewers: paulfitz

Reviewed By: paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3609
2022-08-30 16:46:29 +02:00
Paul Fitzpatrick
63683f98cc (core) updates from grist-core 2022-08-26 17:29:25 -04:00
Yohan Boniface
ac9f2fbdd1 Update some python deps to prepare python>=3.10 compat
ABC classes have moved from collections to collections.abc since
python 3.3, and retro compat has ended with 3.8
2022-08-26 16:45:24 +02:00
Alex Hall
eac1f26f3e (core) More helpful messages when formula probably needs to use Table.all
Summary:
Raise an exception with a customised message for two cases when a user tries on operation directly on a table without `.all`:

1. For `Table.Col`, where `Col` is an existing column, suggest `Table.all.Col`. If `Col` doesn't exist as a column, fall back to the standard AttributeError.
2. When iterating directly over a table, e.g. `[r for r in Table]`, suggest looping over `Table.all` instead.

Test Plan: Added Python unit tests.

Reviewers: georgegevoian

Reviewed By: georgegevoian

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3593
2022-08-24 14:49:33 +02:00
Alex Hall
5f17dd0a06 (core) Convince grist-help that REQUEST is really unimplemented
Summary:
Change made to allow rebuilding functions in https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-help/pull/170

Deals the error described here: https://grist.slack.com/archives/C0234CPPXPA/p1660245534781629

Test Plan: Regenerating functions in grist-help works again.

Reviewers: paulfitz

Reviewed By: paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3594
2022-08-23 19:25:27 +02:00
Alex Hall
42060df29a (core) Formula autocomplete improvements for references and lookups
Summary:
Makes the following improvements to formula autocomplete:

- When a user types `$RefCol` (or part of it), also show `$RefCol.VisibleCol` (replace actual column names) in the autocomplete even before the `.` is typed, to help users understand the difference between a raw reference/record and its visible column.
- When a user types a table name, show `.lookupOne` and `.lookupRecords` in the autocomplete, again even before the `.` is typed.
- For `.lookupRecords(` and `.lookupOne(`, once the `(` is entered, suggest each column name as a keyword argument.
- Also suggest lookup arguments involving compatible reference columns, especially 'reverse reference' lookups like `refcol=$id` which are very common and difficult for users.
- To support these features, the Ace editor autocomplete needs some patching to fetch fresh autocomplete options after typing `.` or `(`. This also improves unrelated behaviour that wasn't great before when one column name is contained in another. See the first added browser test.

Discussions:

- https://grist.slack.com/archives/CDHABLZJT/p1659707068383179
- https://grist.quip.com/HoSmAlvFax0j#MbTADAH5kgG
- https://grist.quip.com/HoSmAlvFax0j/Formula-Improvements#temp:C:MbT3649fe964a184e8dada9bbebb

Test Plan: Added Python and nbrowser tests.

Reviewers: paulfitz

Reviewed By: paulfitz

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3580
2022-08-20 19:11:41 +02:00
Alex Hall
49cb51bac5 (core) Error explanations from friendly-traceback
Summary: Extend formula error messages with explanations from https://github.com/friendly-traceback/friendly-traceback. Only for Python 3.

Test Plan: Updated several Python tests. In general, these require separate branches for Python 2 and 3.

Reviewers: georgegevoian

Reviewed By: georgegevoian

Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3542
2022-08-12 19:45:00 +02:00