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
