Merge pull request #14733 from Budibase/view-calculation-validation-3

packages/server/src/api/routes/tests/viewV2.spec.ts

@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ import {
   NumericCalculationFieldMetadata,
   ViewV2Schema,
   ViewV2Type,
+  JsonTypes,
 } from "@budibase/types"
 import { generator, mocks } from "@budibase/backend-core/tests"
 import { DatabaseName, getDatasource } from "../../../integrations/tests/utils"
@@ -736,6 +737,34 @@ describe.each([
           },
         })
       })
+
+      // We don't allow the creation of tables with most JsonTypes when using
+      // external datasources.
+      isInternal &&
+        it("cannot use complex types as group-by fields", async () => {
+          for (const type of JsonTypes) {
+            const field = { name: "field", type } as FieldSchema
+            const table = await config.api.table.save(
+              saveTableRequest({ schema: { field } })
+            )
+            await config.api.viewV2.create(
+              {
+                tableId: table._id!,
+                name: generator.guid(),
+                type: ViewV2Type.CALCULATION,
+                schema: {
+                  field: { visible: true },
+                },
+              },
+              {
+                status: 400,
+                body: {
+                  message: `Grouping by fields of type "${type}" is not supported`,
+                },
+              }
+            )
+          }
+        })
     })
 
     describe("update", () => {

packages/server/src/sdk/app/views/index.ts

@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import {
   CalculationType,
+  canGroupBy,
   FieldType,
+  isNumeric,
   PermissionLevel,
   RelationSchemaField,
   RenameColumn,
@@ -103,7 +105,7 @@ async function guardCalculationViewSchema(
       )
     }
 
-    if (!isCount && !helpers.schema.isNumeric(targetSchema)) {
+    if (!isCount && !isNumeric(targetSchema.type)) {
       throw new HTTPError(
         `Calculation field "${name}" references field "${schema.field}" which is not a numeric field`,
         400
@@ -120,6 +122,13 @@ async function guardCalculationViewSchema(
         400
       )
     }
+
+    if (!canGroupBy(targetSchema.type)) {
+      throw new HTTPError(
+        `Grouping by fields of type "${targetSchema.type}" is not supported`,
+        400
+      )
+    }
   }
 }
 

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

@@ -127,6 +127,26 @@ export const JsonTypes = [
   FieldType.ARRAY,
 ]
 
+export const NumericTypes = [FieldType.NUMBER, FieldType.BIGINT]
+
+export function isNumeric(type: FieldType) {
+  return NumericTypes.includes(type)
+}
+
+export const GroupByTypes = [
+  FieldType.STRING,
+  FieldType.LONGFORM,
+  FieldType.OPTIONS,
+  FieldType.NUMBER,
+  FieldType.BOOLEAN,
+  FieldType.DATETIME,
+  FieldType.BIGINT,
+]
+
+export function canGroupBy(type: FieldType) {
+  return GroupByTypes.includes(type)
+}
+
 export interface RowAttachment {
   size: number
   name: string