Fixing issues with many to many relationships in SQL, sometimes not creating right relationships.

packages/server/src/api/controllers/row/ExternalRequest.ts

@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@ module External {
         }
       }
       if (cache[fullKey] == null) {
-        cache[fullKey] = await makeExternalQuery(this.appId, {
+        const response = await makeExternalQuery(this.appId, {
           endpoint: getEndpoint(tableId, DataSourceOperation.READ),
           filters: {
             equal: {
@@ -372,8 +372,12 @@ module External {
             },
           },
         })
+        // this is the response from knex if no rows found
+        if (!response[0].read) {
+          cache[fullKey] = response
         }
-      return { rows: cache[fullKey], table }
+      }
+      return { rows: cache[fullKey] || [], table }
     }
 
     /**
@@ -423,14 +427,18 @@ module External {
         const { tableName } = breakExternalTableId(tableId)
         const table = this.tables[tableName]
         for (let row of rows) {
+          const filters = buildFilters(generateIdForRow(row, table), {}, table)
+          // safety check, if there are no filters on deletion bad things happen
+          if (Object.keys(filters).length !== 0) {
             promises.push(
               makeExternalQuery(this.appId, {
                 endpoint: getEndpoint(tableId, DataSourceOperation.DELETE),
-              filters: buildFilters(generateIdForRow(row, table), {}, table),
+                filters,
               })
             )
           }
         }
+      }
       await Promise.all(promises)
     }
 

packages/server/src/integrations/base/sql.ts

@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ function buildRead(knex: Knex, json: QueryJson, limit: number): KnexQuery {
   }
   // handle select
   if (resource.fields && resource.fields.length > 0) {
+    // select the resources as the format "table.columnName" - this is what is provided
+    // by the resource builder further up
     query = query.select(resource.fields.map(field => `${field} as ${field}`))
   } else {
     query = query.select("*")