Opened 15 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#12460 closed Bug (fixed)

inspectdb and field names ending with underscores

Reported by: 3gun <mihail.lukin@…> Owned by: kgibula
Component: Core (Management commands) Version: dev
Severity: Normal Keywords: inspectdb underscore characters digits
Cc: Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: yes Needs documentation: no
Needs tests: no Patch needs improvement: no
Easy pickings: no UI/UX: no

Description

Hi,

There is a field named 'type_' in mysql table. Inspectdb inspects it as 'type_' and model does not validate. I suggest removing underscores from model field name and specifying column_db argument in field constructor.

< type_ = models.CharField(max_length=90, db_column='type_')

type = models.CharField(max_length=90, db_column='type_')

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Attachments (4)

inspect_db_py_names.patch (3.0 KB ) - added by Elijah Rutschman 14 years ago.
Patch that addresses trailing underscore issue as well as several other introspection field naming scenarios
inspectdb.diff (6.2 KB ) - added by kgibula 14 years ago.
updated patch
12460-3.diff (8.6 KB ) - added by Claude Paroz 13 years ago.
Updated patch
12460-4.diff (8.8 KB ) - added by Claude Paroz 13 years ago.
Patch updated to current trunk

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Change History (15)

comment:1 by Russell Keith-Magee, 15 years ago

Triage Stage: UnreviewedAccepted

I've confirmed that the problem exists, but your proposed solution won't work (at least, not in the general case). type_ is the name of a Python builtin, so you shouldn't name a model field type. An alternate approach would be to append or prepend a known character (e.g., xtype, type_1) to create a field name.

comment:2 by Alex Gaynor, 15 years ago

Django already handles the case of a python keyword: http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/core/management/commands/inspectdb.py#L64 . Having something with the same name as a builtin shouldn't matter.

comment:3 by Elijah Rutschman, 14 years ago

Keywords: characters digits added

There are a few other scenarios where invalid field names could be generated via the inspectdb command. For instance, a column name of "Foo/Bar", while unconventional, is a valid column name, at least in MySQL 5, but the invalid field name of 'foo/bar' would be generated.

Currently, inspectdb ensures that:

  • field names do not contain spaces or dashes
  • field names are not Python keywords

The patch I just attached improves this by also ensuring that:

  • field names do not contain any characters outside of a-zA-Z0-9_
  • field names do not contain double underscores
  • field names neither start nor end with underscores
  • field names do not start with digits

by Elijah Rutschman, 14 years ago

Attachment: inspect_db_py_names.patch added

Patch that addresses trailing underscore issue as well as several other introspection field naming scenarios

comment:4 by Elijah Rutschman, 14 years ago

Has patch: set

comment:5 by Ramiro Morales, 14 years ago

Needs tests: set

comment:6 by Gabriel Hurley, 14 years ago

Component: django-admin.py inspectdbCore (Management commands)

comment:7 by Matt McClanahan, 14 years ago

Severity: Normal
Type: Bug

comment:8 by kgibula, 14 years ago

Owner: changed from nobody to kgibula
Status: newassigned

Patch can't be applied to trunk anymore. It would also convert both ''Foo__'' and ''foo_'' (valid MySQL column names) to ''foo_field''.

Last edited 14 years ago by kgibula (previous) (diff)

by kgibula, 14 years ago

Attachment: inspectdb.diff added

updated patch

comment:9 by kgibula, 14 years ago

Easy pickings: unset
Patch needs improvement: set

I tested it on MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite. Currently tests pass only on MySQL and PostgreSQL. When db_column keyword argument is added, on MySQL and PostgreQSL it looks like this: db_column='name_of_field'. On SQLite however it looks like this: db_column=u'name_of_field'. I am not sure which one is correct.

by Claude Paroz, 13 years ago

Attachment: 12460-3.diff added

Updated patch

comment:10 by Claude Paroz, 13 years ago

Needs tests: unset
Patch needs improvement: unset
UI/UX: unset
Version: 1.1SVN

Here's an updated patch where I have slightly refactored things to isolate the normalization process of the field name. I purposely did not include the non-ascii characters issue which was also addressed by previous "inspectdb.diff" patch. If the committer finds it's better to also include it, I can complete the patch. Otherwise, I'll gladly add a specific patch for that issue in #16737 after this one is committed.

by Claude Paroz, 13 years ago

Attachment: 12460-4.diff added

Patch updated to current trunk

comment:11 by Claude Paroz <claude@…>, 12 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

In [395c6083af93cc37c7d16ef4db451091841cefdc]:

Fixed #12460 -- Improved inspectdb handling of special field names

Thanks mihail lukin for the report and elijahr and kgibula for their
work on the patch.

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