Fix forms always requesting table schema and cache view definitions

packages/client/src/components/app/forms/Form.svelte

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
   import InnerForm from "./InnerForm.svelte"
   import { Helpers } from "@budibase/bbui"
   import { writable } from "svelte/store"
+  import { fetchDatasourceDefinition } from "utils/schema"
 
   export let dataSource
   export let theme
@@ -32,9 +33,9 @@
     return parsedFormStep
   }
 
-  let loaded = false
+  let definition
   let schema
-  let table
+  let loaded = false
   let currentStep = getContext("current-step") || writable(getInitialFormStep())
 
   $: fetchSchema(dataSource)
@@ -84,12 +85,10 @@
 
   // Fetches the form schema from this form's dataSource
   const fetchSchema = async dataSource => {
-    if (dataSource?.tableId && !dataSource?.type?.startsWith("query")) {
     try {
-        table = await API.fetchTableDefinition(dataSource.tableId)
+      definition = await fetchDatasourceDefinition(dataSource)
     } catch (error) {
-        table = null
+      definition = null
-      }
     }
     const res = await fetchDatasourceSchema(dataSource)
     schema = res || {}
@@ -121,7 +120,7 @@
       {readonly}
       {actionType}
       {schema}
-      {table}
+      {definition}
       {initialValues}
       {disableSchemaValidation}
       {editAutoColumns}

packages/client/src/components/app/forms/InnerForm.svelte

@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
   export let initialValues
   export let size
   export let schema
-  export let table
+  export let definition
   export let disableSchemaValidation = false
   export let editAutoColumns = false
 
@@ -164,7 +164,7 @@
         schemaConstraints,
         validationRules,
         field,
-        table
+        definition
       )
 
       // Sanitise the default value to ensure it doesn't contain invalid data
@@ -338,7 +338,7 @@
         schemaConstraints,
         validationRules,
         field,
-        table
+        definition
       )
 
       // Update validator

packages/client/src/components/app/forms/validation.js

@@ -5,17 +5,17 @@ import { Helpers } from "@budibase/bbui"
 /**
  * Creates a validation function from a combination of schema-level constraints
  * and custom validation rules
- * @param schemaConstraints any schema level constraints from the table
+ * @param schemaConstraints any schema level constraints from the datasource
  * @param customRules any custom validation rules
  * @param field the field name we are evaluating
- * @param table the definition of the table we are evaluating
+ * @param definition the definition of the datasource we are evaluating
  * @returns {function} a validator function which accepts test values
  */
 export const createValidatorFromConstraints = (
   schemaConstraints,
   customRules,
   field,
-  table
+  definition
 ) => {
   let rules = []
 
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ export const createValidatorFromConstraints = (
   if (schemaConstraints) {
     // Required constraint
     if (
-      field === table?.primaryDisplay ||
+      field === definition?.primaryDisplay ||
       schemaConstraints.presence?.allowEmpty === false ||
       schemaConstraints.presence === true
     ) {

packages/client/src/utils/schema.js

@@ -10,16 +10,13 @@ import ViewV2Fetch from "@budibase/frontend-core/src/fetch/ViewV2Fetch.js"
 import QueryArrayFetch from "@budibase/frontend-core/src/fetch/QueryArrayFetch"
 
 /**
- * Fetches the schema of any kind of datasource.
+ * Constructs a fetch instance for a given datasource.
  * All datasource fetch classes implement their own functionality to get the
  * schema of a datasource of their respective types.
- * @param datasource the datasource to fetch the schema for
+ * @param datasource the datasource
- * @param options options for enriching the schema
+ * @returns
  */
-export const fetchDatasourceSchema = async (
+const getDatasourceFetchInstance = datasource => {
-  datasource,
-  options = { enrichRelationships: false, formSchema: false }
-) => {
   const handler = {
     table: TableFetch,
     view: ViewFetch,
@@ -34,10 +31,23 @@ export const fetchDatasourceSchema = async (
   if (!handler) {
     return null
   }
-  const instance = new handler({ API })
+  return new handler({ API })
+}
 
-  // Get the datasource definition and then schema
+/**
-  const definition = await instance.getDefinition(datasource)
+ * Fetches the schema of any kind of datasource.
+ * @param datasource the datasource to fetch the schema for
+ * @param options options for enriching the schema
+ */
+export const fetchDatasourceSchema = async (
+  datasource,
+  options = { enrichRelationships: false, formSchema: false }
+) => {
+  const instance = getDatasourceFetchInstance(datasource)
+  const definition = await instance?.getDefinition(datasource)
+  if (!definition) {
+    return null
+  }
 
   // Get the normal schema as long as we aren't wanting a form schema
   let schema
@@ -75,6 +85,15 @@ export const fetchDatasourceSchema = async (
   return instance.enrichSchema(schema)
 }
 
+/**
+ * Fetches the definition of any kind of datasource.
+ * @param datasource the datasource to fetch the schema for
+ */
+export const fetchDatasourceDefinition = async datasource => {
+  const instance = getDatasourceFetchInstance(datasource)
+  return await instance?.getDefinition(datasource)
+}
+
 /**
  * Fetches the schema of relationship fields for a SQL table schema
  * @param schema the schema to enrich

packages/frontend-core/src/api/viewsV2.js

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ export const buildViewV2Endpoints = API => ({
   fetchDefinition: async viewId => {
     return await API.get({
       url: `/api/v2/views/${encodeURIComponent(viewId)}`,
+      cache: true,
     })
   },
   /**