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
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: Extend the way ACL resources are read in the server so that if a rule applies to a specific column then that rule also applies to helper columns belonging to that column, as well as helper columns belonging to fields which display that column. This is particularly intended for display columns of reference columns, but it also applies to conditional formatting rule columns.
Test Plan: Added a server test
Reviewers: paulfitz, jarek
Reviewed By: paulfitz, jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3628
Summary:
This endpoint has started to fail when called between a pair
of doc workers. The simplest fix is to simply remove it, it serves no
purpose.
Test Plan: added basic deployment test
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3636
XLSX export of active view / table
Co-authored-by: Louis Delbosc <louis.delbosc.prestataire@anct.gouv.fr>
Co-authored-by: Vincent Viers <vincent.viers@beta.gouv.fr>
Summary:
Adds initial implementation of dark mode. Preferences for dark mode are
available on the account settings page. Dark mode is currently a beta feature
as there are still some small bugs to squash and a few remaining UI elements
to style.
Test Plan: Browser tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Subscribers: paulfitz, jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3587
Summary:
upgrade typeorm version, so Grist can run against newer versions of postgres.
Dusted off some old benchmarking code to verify that important queries don't get slower. They don't appear to, unlike for some intermediate versions of typeorm I tried in the past.
Most of the changes are because `findOne` changed how it interprets its arguments, and the value it returns when nothing is found. For the return value, I stuck with limiting its impact by emulating old behavior (returning undefined rather than null) rather than propagating the change out to parts of the code unrelated to the database.
Test Plan: existing tests pass; manual testing with postgres 10 and 14
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3613
Summary:
- The issue manifested as error "Cannot read property '0' of undefined" in some
cases, and as "Blocked by table read access rules" in others (instead of
limiting output to what's not blocked)
- Goes deeper: exports weren't respecting metadata censoring.
- The fix changes exports to use censored metadata, which addresses both errors above.
- Includes an improvement to column ordering in XLSX exports.
Test Plan: Add a server test for CSV and XLSX exports with access rules
Reviewers: paulfitz, georgegevoian
Reviewed By: paulfitz, georgegevoian
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3615
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
Summary:
Two summary table widgets that share a source table and have compatible groupby columns can be filter linked. This diff fixes a bug where this linking is broken when the source table is hidden by access rules. The source table data isn't needed for the linking, but its metadata is, and that metadata is censored by GranularAccess. To deal with this:
- `LinkConfig._assertValid` allows blank `tableId`s specifically for linking two summary tables.
- `LinkingState.filterColValues` gets the `colId`s of groupby columns from the summary table columns rather than the source table.
A closely related problem is that the titles of summary tables are incomplete when the source table is hidden, e.g. they just say `[by A]` instead of `Table1 [by A]`. To fix this, the raw view sections of source tables are 'uncensored' in GranularAccess.
Initially I also planned to uncensor the tableId of the source table, which seemed like a better and more general fix for the blank tableId problem. But several parts of client code use blank tableIds to know that a table should be hidden, so they were left as is.
Test Plan: Added an nbrowser test for summary table linking, and a server test for uncensoring the raw view section in GranularAccess.
Reviewers: georgegevoian, paulfitz
Reviewed By: georgegevoian, paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3608
Summary:
Fixes some bugs involving intervals, and updates RandomizedTimer to support both fixed and
randomized delays, and to better handle async callbacks.
* Fixed a bug where Throttle would queue up many pidusage calls due to the use of
setInterval, and the async nature of the calls.
* Fixed a but where RandomizedTimer (now just Interval) would not be disabled in
ActiveDoc on doc shutdown if initialization had not yet settled.
Test Plan: Tested manually.
Reviewers: jarek, dsagal
Reviewed By: jarek, dsagal
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3604
Summary:
getDataSize() call can be expensive and involve lots of disk reading. We can
avoid doing it repeatedly when the document isn't actually changing.
Test Plan: Should have no change in behavior except for timings.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3605
Summary:
When a home server fails to fetch from a doc worker, errors are
passed along to clients but we don't get to see them. This fixes
that omission.
Test Plan:
tested manually, by inserting some code to delay
serving particular test documents.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3601
Summary:
When large numbers of documents were restarted simultaneously, they had
a tendency to schedule intervals to begin at roughly the same moment in
time, causing periodic spikes in load. This randomizes the delay of each
interval to help avoid such spikes.
Test Plan: Tested manually.
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3600
Summary:
Adds an activation page to grist-ee that currently shows activation status.
Follow-up diffs will introduce additional functionality, such as the ability to
enter activation keys directly from the activation page.
Test Plan: No grist-ee tests (yet).
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: dsagal, paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3582
Summary: Old landing page /docs/billing/signup is not used anymore.
Test Plan: Updated tests
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3585
Summary: Adds a few missing Open Graph tags to Grist pages.
Test Plan: Manual.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3586
Summary:
Adds a CLI command to un-quarantine an active document. Also tweaks the
name of related environment variable to avoid a naming conflict.
Test Plan: Server test.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3583
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
A faulty conditional in _makeDefaultTransformRule was the cause of the
bug. The conditional isn't necessary, as it's unreachable from the
import flows, so it was removed.
Summary:
Conditional formatting can now be used for whole rows.
Related fix:
- Font styles weren't applicable for summary columns.
- Checkbox and slider weren't using colors properly
Test Plan: Existing and new tests
Reviewers: paulfitz, georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3547
Summary:
Adds a new CLI command, doc, with a subcommand that quarantines
an active document. Adds a group query param to a housekeeping
endpoint for updating the document group prior to checking if a doc
needs to be reassigned. Both methods require support user credentials.
Test Plan: Server tests. (Additional testing will be done manually on staging.)
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3570
Summary:
Removing NEW_DEAL flag checks and exposing all new deal features as default.
Also removing Pages.ts as it was moved to grist-core.
Test Plan: Existing and updated tests.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3572
Summary: Displays a live row count of each table on the Raw Data page.
Test Plan: Browser tests.
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3540
Summary: Adding new url parameter for team site creation
Test Plan: Updated tests.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3554
Summary:
Occasionally, while the versions of a document are being enumerated,
a new version of the document will be created. This is detected and
triggers re-enumeration and a "surprise" log message. This diff
tweaks uploads to be run in series with DocSnapshots operations.
This means that listing versions would be blocked on an upload, or
vice versa, rather than overlapping. This is simpler and more deterministic.
I'm not sure how the user experience will feel if the operations
are slow.
Test Plan: existing tests pass; will see if surprises are reduced
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3551
Summary:
The changes in this diff are sufficient to make this sequence work again:
```
./build electron-dev
bin/electron app/electron/runPrebuild.js
```
This brings up the local server within an electron window.
This is an unambitious diff, aimed at checking how rusty electron support had become. It does not revive Grist as a packaged electron app. The first substantial work needed would be to make the app aware of the local file system again, and think through how local files should be visualized and accessed now. In the past, there was a simple list of grist docs in a directory.
Test Plan: manual
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3534
Summary:
Fills in the title and description/thumbnail (for templates) in app.html if the
page being requested is for a document.
Test Plan: Tested manually.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3544
Summary:
This calls a new `initialize` method on the sandbox before we start
doing calculations with it, to make sure that `random.seed()` has
been called. Otherwise, if the sandbox is cloned from a checkpoint,
the seed will have been reset.
The `initialize` method includes the functionality previously done
by `set_doc_url` since it is also initialization/personalization and
this way we avoid introducing another round trip to the sandbox.
Test Plan: tested with grist-core configured to use gvisor
Reviewers: georgegevoian, dsagal
Reviewed By: georgegevoian, dsagal
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3549
Summary:
Adds the new personal plan as a product that will be available
in the future. Can be enabled along with other plan-related via
an environment variable.
Test Plan: Browser tests and existing tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3533
Summary:
With this, a custom widget can render an attachment by doing:
```
const tokenInfo = await grist.docApi.getAccessToken({readOnly: true});
const img = document.getElementById('the_image');
const id = record.C[0]; // get an id of an attachment
const src = `${tokenInfo.baseUrl}/attachments/${id}/download?auth=${tokenInfo.token}`;
img.setAttribute('src', src)
```
The access token expires after a few mins, so if a user right-clicks on an image
to save it, they may get access denied unless they refresh the page. A little awkward,
but s3 pre-authorized links behave similarly and it generally isn't a deal-breaker.
Test Plan: added tests
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Subscribers: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3488
Summary:
Use table titles (i.e. the raw data widget titles) in dropdowns and other parts of the Acess Rules page, instead of the table ID. This is particularly meant for summary tables which have/had an ID of the form `GristSummary_SourceTable_N`, but https://phab.getgrist.com/D3508 is changing that anyway.
The server method `getAclResources` now returns more metadata about each table so that the UI can display titles.
Test Plan: Extended and updated `nbrowser/AccessRules2.ts`. Added a small unit test for constructing table titles from the new description returned by `getAclResources`.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3494
Summary:
Most logging now includes altSessionId, but not the message logged at the end
of every request by the 'morgan' logger. This includes altSessionId in those
messages.
Test Plan: Verified that with GRIST_HOSTED_VERSION env var set, altSessionId is included in morgan-produced JSON messages.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3523
Summary:
1. Log errors in `ActiveDoc.loadDoc` as errors, not just warnings, except for a common 'Cannot create fork' error caused by deployment tests.
2. Log the method name that had an error in `server/lib/Client.ts`.
Discussion: https://grist.slack.com/archives/CR8HZ4P9V/p1652364998893169
Following up on https://phab.getgrist.com/D3522
Test Plan: tested manually, particularly by running the nbrowser/Fork test that led to the initial noisy errors in Slack.
Reviewers: dsagal
Reviewed By: dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3525
Summary: The previous access check in `getFormulaError` was not strict enough, allowing users to read the values of individual formula cells that they shouldn't be able to. Now `getCellValue` is used to check the access for the specific cell first.
Test Plan: Extended GranularAccess server test.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3526
Summary:
This adds rudimentary support for opening certain SQLite files in Grist.
If you have a file such as `landing.db` in Grist, you can convert it to Grist format by doing (either in monorepo or grist-core):
```
yarn run cli -h
yarn run cli sqlite -h
yarn run cli sqlite gristify landing.db
```
The file is now openable by Grist. To actually do so with the regular Grist server, you'll need to either import it, or convert some doc you don't care about in the `samples/` directory to be a soft link to it (and then force a reload).
This implementation is a rudimentary experiment. Here are some awkwardnesses:
* Only tables that happen to have a column called `id`, and where the column happens to be an integer, can be opened directly with Grist as it is today. That could be generalized, but it looked more than a Gristathon's worth of work, so I instead used SQLite views.
* Grist will handle tables that start with an uncapitalized letter a bit erratically. You can successfully add columns, for example, but removing them will cause sadness - Grist will rename the table in a confused way.
* I didn't attempt to deal with column names with spaces etc (though views could deal with those).
* I haven't tried to do any fancy type mapping.
* Columns with constraints can make adding new rows impossible in Grist, since Grist requires that a row can be added with just a single cell set.
Test Plan: added small test
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3502
Summary:
Changes auto-generated summary table IDs from e.g. `GristSummary_6_Table1` to `Table1_summary_A_B` (meaning `Table1` grouped by `A` and `B`). This makes it easier to write formulas involving summary tables, make API requests, understand logs, etc.
Because these don't encode the source table ID as reliably as before, `decode_summary_table_name` now uses the summary table schema info, not just the summary table ID. Specifically, it looks at the type of the `group` column, which is `RefList:<source table id>`.
Renaming a source table renames the summary table as before, and now renaming a groupby column renames the summary table as well.
Conflicting table names are resolved in the usual way by adding a number at the end, e.g. `Table1_summary_A_B2`. These summary tables are not automatically renamed when the disambiguation is no longer needed.
A new migration renames all summary tables to the new scheme, and updates formulas using summary tables with a simple regex.
Test Plan:
Updated many tests to use the new style of name.
Added new Python tests to for resolving conflicts when renaming source tables and groupby columns.
Added a test for the migration, including renames in formulas.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3508
Summary:
When a user requests to read the contents of an attachment, only allow the request if there exists a cell in an attachment column that contains the attachment and which they have read access to.
This does not cover:
* Granular write access for attachments. In particular, a user who can write to any attachment column should be considered to have full read access to all attachment columns, currently.
* Access control of attachment metadata such as name and format.
The implementation uses a sql query that requires a scan, and some notes on how this could be optimized in future. The web client was updated to specify the cell to check for access, and performance seemed fine in casual testing on a doc with 1000s of attachments. I'm not sure how performance would hold up as the set of access rules grows as well.
Test Plan: added tests
Reviewers: alexmojaki
Reviewed By: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3490
Summary:
Summary tables now have their own raw viewsection, and are shown
under Raw Data Tables on the Raw Data page.
Test Plan: Browser and Python tests.
Reviewers: jarek
Reviewed By: jarek
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3495
Summary:
Building:
- Builds no longer wait for tsc for either client, server, or test targets. All use esbuild which is very fast.
- Build still runs tsc, but only to report errors. This may be turned off with `SKIP_TSC=1` env var.
- Grist-core continues to build using tsc.
- Esbuild requires ES6 module semantics. Typescript's esModuleInterop is turned
on, so that tsc accepts and enforces correct usage.
- Client-side code is watched and bundled by webpack as before (using esbuild-loader)
Code changes:
- Imports must now follow ES6 semantics: `import * as X from ...` produces a
module object; to import functions or class instances, use `import X from ...`.
- Everything is now built with isolatedModules flag. Some exports were updated for it.
Packages:
- Upgraded browserify dependency, and related packages (used for the distribution-building step).
- Building the distribution now uses esbuild's minification. babel-minify is no longer used.
Test Plan: Should have no behavior changes, existing tests should pass, and docker image should build too.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: alexmojaki
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3506
Summary:
- Upgrades to build-related packages:
- Upgrade typescript, related libraries and typings.
- Upgrade webpack, eslint; add tsc-watch, node-dev, eslint_d.
- Build organization changes:
- Build webpack from original typescript, transpiling only; with errors still
reported by a background tsc watching process.
- Typescript-related changes:
- Reduce imports of AWS dependencies (very noticeable speedup)
- Avoid auto-loading global @types
- Client code is now built with isolatedModules flag (for safe transpilation)
- Use allowJs to avoid copying JS files manually.
- Linting changes
- Enhance Arcanist ESLintLinter to run before/after commands, and set up to use eslint_d
- Update eslint config, and include .eslintignore to avoid linting generated files.
- Include a bunch of eslint-prompted and eslint-generated fixes
- Add no-unused-expression rule to eslint, and fix a few warnings about it
- Other items:
- Refactor cssInput to avoid circular dependency
- Remove a bit of unused code, libraries, dependencies
Test Plan: No behavior changes, all existing tests pass. There are 30 tests fewer reported because `test_gpath.py` was removed (it's been unused for years)
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Subscribers: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3498
Summary:
Adds a Python function `REQUEST` which makes an HTTP GET request. Behind the scenes it:
- Raises a special exception to stop trying to evaluate the current cell and just keep the existing value.
- Notes the request arguments which will be returned by `apply_user_actions`.
- Makes the actual request in NodeJS, which sends back the raw response data in a new action `RespondToRequests` which reevaluates the cell(s) that made the request.
- Wraps the response data in a class which mimics the `Response` class of the `requests` library.
In certain cases, this asynchronous flow doesn't work and the sandbox will instead synchronously call an exported JS method:
- When reevaluating a single cell to get a formula error, the request is made synchronously.
- When a formula makes multiple requests, the earlier responses are retrieved synchronously from files which store responses as long as needed to complete evaluating formulas. See https://grist.slack.com/archives/CL1LQ8AT0/p1653399747810139
Test Plan: Added Python and nbrowser tests.
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Subscribers: paulfitz, dsagal
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3429
Summary:
- Substantial refactoring of the logic when the server fails to send some
messages to a client.
- Add seqId numbers to server messages to ensure reliable order.
- Add a needReload flag in clientConnect for a clear indication whent the
browser client needs to reload the app.
- Reproduce some potential failure scenarios in a test case (some of which
previously could have led to incorrectly ordered messages).
- Convert other Comm tests to typescript.
- Tweak logging of Comm and Client to be slightly more concise (in particular,
avoid logging sessionId)
Note that despite the big refactoring, this only addresses a fairly rare
situation, with websocket failures while server is trying to send to the
client. It includes no improvements for failures while the client is sending to
the server.
(I looked for an existing library that would take care of these issues. A relevant article I found is https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-web-pubsub/howto-develop-reliable-clients, but it doesn't include a library for both ends, and is still in review. Other libraries with similar purposes did not inspire enough confidence.)
Test Plan: New test cases, which reproduce some previously problematic scenarios.
Reviewers: paulfitz
Reviewed By: paulfitz
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3470
Summary:
For self-hosted Grist, forward auth has proven useful, where
some proxy wrapped around Grist manages authentication, and
passes on user information to Grist in a trusted header.
The current implementation is adequate when Grist is the
only place where the user logs in or out, but is confusing
otherwise (see https://github.com/gristlabs/grist-core/issues/207).
Here we take some steps to broaden the scenarios Grist's
forward auth support can be used with:
* When a trusted header is present and is blank, treat
that as the user not being logged in, and don't look
any further for identity information. Specifically,
don't look in Grist's session information.
* Add a `GRIST_IGNORE_SESSION` flag to entirely prevent
Grist from picking up identity information from a cookie,
in order to avoid confusion between multiple login methods.
* Add tests for common scenarios.
Test Plan: added tests
Reviewers: georgegevoian
Reviewed By: georgegevoian
Differential Revision: https://phab.getgrist.com/D3482
