Merge pull request #14932 from Budibase/fix-flaky-export-test

Fix flaky export test.

packages/server/src/api/controllers/view/exporters.ts

@@ -9,29 +9,33 @@ function getHeaders(
   return headers.map(header => `"${customHeaders[header] || header}"`)
 }
 
+function escapeCsvString(str: string) {
+  return str.replace(/"/g, '""')
+}
+
 export function csv(
   headers: string[],
   rows: Row[],
   delimiter: string = ",",
   customHeaders: { [key: string]: string } = {}
 ) {
-  let csv = getHeaders(headers, customHeaders).join(delimiter)
+  let csvRows = [getHeaders(headers, customHeaders)]
 
   for (let row of rows) {
-    csv = `${csv}\n${headers
+    csvRows.push(
-      .map(header => {
+      headers.map(header => {
-        let val = row[header]
+        const val = row[header]
-        val =
+        if (typeof val === "object" && !(val instanceof Date)) {
-          typeof val === "object" && !(val instanceof Date)
+          return `"${JSON.stringify(val).replace(/"/g, "'")}"`
-            ? `"${JSON.stringify(val).replace(/"/g, "'")}"`
-            : val !== undefined
-            ? `"${val}"`
-            : ""
-        return val.trim()
-      })
-      .join(delimiter)}`
         }
-  return csv
+        if (val !== undefined) {
+          return `"${escapeCsvString(val.toString())}"`
+        }
+        return ""
+      })
+    )
+  }
+  return csvRows.map(row => row.join(delimiter)).join("\n")
 }
 
 export function json(rows: Row[]) {

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

@@ -2630,6 +2630,40 @@ describe.each([
         })
       })
 
+      it("can handle csv-special characters in strings", async () => {
+        const badString = 'test":, wow", "test": "wow"'
+        const table = await config.api.table.save(
+          saveTableRequest({
+            schema: {
+              string: {
+                type: FieldType.STRING,
+                name: "string",
+              },
+            },
+          })
+        )
+
+        await config.api.row.save(table._id!, { string: badString })
+
+        const exportedValue = await config.api.row.exportRows(
+          table._id!,
+          { query: {} },
+          RowExportFormat.CSV
+        )
+
+        const json = await config.api.table.csvToJson(
+          {
+            csvString: exportedValue,
+          },
+          {
+            status: 200,
+          }
+        )
+
+        expect(json).toHaveLength(1)
+        expect(json[0].string).toEqual(badString)
+      })
+
       it("exported data can be re-imported", async () => {
         // export all
         const exportedValue = await config.api.row.exportRows(

packages/server/src/utilities/csv.ts

@@ -5,8 +5,10 @@ export async function jsonFromCsvString(csvString: string) {
     csvString
   )
 
-  // By default the csvtojson library casts empty values as empty strings. This is causing issues on conversion.
+  // By default the csvtojson library casts empty values as empty strings. This
-  // ignoreEmpty will remove the key completly if empty, so creating this empty object will ensure we return the values with the keys but empty values
+  // is causing issues on conversion.  ignoreEmpty will remove the key completly
+  // if empty, so creating this empty object will ensure we return the values
+  // with the keys but empty values
   const result = await csv({ ignoreEmpty: false }).fromString(csvString)
   result.forEach((r, i) => {
     for (const [key] of Object.entries(r).filter(([, value]) => value === "")) {