Remove _add

packages/builder/src/stores/builder/tables.js

@@ -148,12 +148,6 @@ export function createTablesStore() {
     if (indexes) {
       draft.indexes = indexes
     }
-    // Add object to indicate if column is being added
-    if (draft.schema[field.name] === undefined) {
-      draft._add = {
-        name: field.name,
-      }
-    }
     draft.schema = {
       ...draft.schema,
       [field.name]: cloneDeep(field),

packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/external.ts

@@ -31,7 +31,6 @@ export async function save(
   renaming?: RenameColumn
 ) {
   const inputs = ctx.request.body
-  const adding = inputs?._add
   // can't do this right now
   delete inputs.rows
   const tableId = ctx.request.body._id
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ export async function save(
     const { datasource, table } = await sdk.tables.external.save(
       datasourceId!,
       inputs,
-      { tableId, renaming, adding }
+      { tableId, renaming }
     )
     builderSocket?.emitDatasourceUpdate(ctx, datasource)
     return table

packages/server/src/api/controllers/table/index.ts

@@ -79,7 +79,6 @@ export async function save(ctx: UserCtx<SaveTableRequest, SaveTableResponse>) {
   const api = pickApi({ table })
   // do not pass _rename or _add if saving to CouchDB
   if (api === internal) {
-    delete ctx.request.body._add
     delete ctx.request.body._rename
   }
   let savedTable = await api.save(ctx, renaming)

packages/server/src/sdk/app/tables/external/index.ts

@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@ import {
   Operation,
   RelationshipType,
   RenameColumn,
-  AddColumn,
   Table,
   TableRequest,
   ViewV2,
@@ -33,7 +32,7 @@ import * as viewSdk from "../../views"
 export async function save(
   datasourceId: string,
   update: Table,
-  opts?: { tableId?: string; renaming?: RenameColumn; adding?: AddColumn }
+  opts?: { tableId?: string; renaming?: RenameColumn }
 ) {
   let tableToSave: TableRequest = {
     ...update,
@@ -179,14 +178,7 @@ export async function save(
   // remove the rename prop
   delete tableToSave._rename
 
-  // if adding a new column, we need to rebuild the schema for that table to get the 'externalType' of the column
-  if (opts?.adding) {
-    datasource.entities[tableToSave.name] = (
-      await datasourceSdk.buildFilteredSchema(datasource, [tableToSave.name])
-    ).tables[tableToSave.name]
-  } else {
-    datasource.entities[tableToSave.name] = tableToSave
-  }
+  datasource.entities[tableToSave.name] = tableToSave
 
   // store it into couch now for budibase reference
   await db.put(populateExternalTableSchemas(datasource))

packages/types/src/documents/app/table/table.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 import { Document } from "../../document"
 import { View, ViewV2 } from "../view"
-import { AddColumn, RenameColumn } from "../../../sdk"
+import { RenameColumn } from "../../../sdk"
 import { TableSchema } from "./schema"
 
 export const INTERNAL_TABLE_SOURCE_ID = "bb_internal"
@@ -30,6 +30,5 @@ export interface Table extends Document {
 
 export interface TableRequest extends Table {
   _rename?: RenameColumn
-  _add?: AddColumn
   created?: boolean
 }

packages/types/src/sdk/search.ts

@@ -61,10 +61,6 @@ export interface RenameColumn {
   updated: string
 }
 
-export interface AddColumn {
-  name: string
-}
-
 export interface RelationshipsJson {
   through?: string
   from?: string