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:
When possible, the original column headers from imported
files will now be used as the labels for Grist columns. This includes
values that were previously invalid Grist column identifiers, such
as those containing Unicode.
Test Plan: Updated server and browser tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3261
Summary: This is the first step towards raw data views, merely adding metadata without any UI. Every 'normal' table now has a widget referenced by `rawViewSectionRef`. It has no parent view/page and cannot actually be viewed for now. The widget is created during the AddTable user action, and the migration creates a widget for existing tables.
Test Plan: Many tests had to be updated, especially tests that listed all view sections and/or fields.
Reviewers: jarek, dsagal
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3232
Summary:
The Importer dialog is now maximized, showing additional column
matching options and information on the left, with the preview
table shown on the right. Columns can be mapped via a select menu
listing all source columns, or by clicking a formula field next to
the menu and directly editing the transform formula.
Test Plan: Browser tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3096
Summary:
Finishing imports now occurs in Node instead of the
data engine, which makes it possible to import into
on-demand tables. Merging code was also refactored
and now uses a SQL query to diff source and destination
tables in order to determine what to update or add.
Also fixes a bug where incremental imports involving
Excel files with multiple sheets would fail due to the UI
not serializing merge options correctly.
Test Plan: Browser tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3046
Summary:
The import dialog now has an option to 'Update existing records',
which when checked will allow for selection of 1 or more fields
to match source and destination tables on.
If all fields match, then the matched record in the
destination table will be merged with the incoming record
from the source table. This means the incoming values will
replace the destination table values, unless the incoming
values are blank.
Additional merge strategies are implemented in the data
engine, but the import dialog only uses one of the
strategies currently. The others can be exposed in the UI
in the future, and tweak the behavior of how source
and destination values should be merged in different contexts,
such as when blank values exist.
Test Plan: Python and browser tests.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3020
Summary: Changes that move towards python 3 compatibility that are easy to review without much thought
Test Plan: The tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2873
Summary:
this moves sandbox/grist to core, and adds a requirements.txt
file for reconstructing the content of sandbox/thirdparty.
Test Plan:
existing tests pass.
Tested core functionality manually. Tested docker build manually.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D2563
