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Summary

Abort the v1→v2 context upgrade before deleting views.yml when the legacy file contains content that _load_views_v1() would drop.

This follows the same migration-safety pattern as the model-columns fix in #2614: loader normalisation remains unchanged for runtime/build consumers, while the migration path performs a raw-source preflight before any write.

What failure does this repair?

_load_views_v1() intentionally filters malformed entries and returns [] for a non-list views: container. The upgrade path then migrated only the surviving views and unconditionally deleted the original views.yml.

That meant hand-edited content such as a nameless view, a bare scalar entry, or a mapping-shaped views: container could be permanently discarded with exit code 0.

Changes

  • Add _reject_malformed_v1_views() to inspect the raw v1 views.yml before migration.
  • Reject malformed views: containers, non-mapping list entries, and nameless views with UpgradeError.
  • Call the preflight from _plan_v1_to_v2(), which also makes _apply_v1_to_v2() re-check the source before the first filesystem mutation.
  • Update the existing malformed-view upgrade tests so they assert abort + source preservation instead of successful lossy migration.
  • Add regression coverage for the exact mixed valid/nameless/bare-entry case from wren context upgrade silently deletes v1 views that the loader dropped #2687.

Test plan

Wren SDK CI passes on the final commit, including:

  • lint
  • unit tests
  • MCP tests
  • UI tests
  • memory tests
  • PostgreSQL tests
  • MySQL tests

Focused regression coverage also verifies:

  • plan_upgrade() rejects malformed legacy views before changing the project.
  • The original views.yml remains intact.
  • A valid plan followed by late corruption is re-checked by apply_upgrade().
  • The model source and schema version remain unchanged when the upgrade aborts.

Duplicate check

No open PR found for #2687 / malformed v1 view upgrade data loss.

Fixes #2687

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Improved v1-to-v2 upgrades by validating views.yml before applying changes.
    • Rejects malformed files, duplicate YAML keys, unsupported root settings, invalid view collections, unnamed views, and non-mapping entries with a clear upgrade error.
    • Preserves source files when invalid view definitions are detected.
    • Handles empty YAML documents safely by removing only the obsolete configuration file without creating invalid view files.

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The v1-to-v2 migration now validates raw views.yml content before changing source files. It raises UpgradeError for malformed roots, duplicate keys, invalid collections, malformed entries, and nameless views. Tests verify rejection, empty documents, and source preservation.

Changes

Legacy view migration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Validate legacy views before migration
core/wren/src/wren/context.py
_reject_malformed_v1_views validates raw legacy YAML. _plan_v1_to_v2 runs this validation before migration changes.
Verify rejection and source preservation
core/wren/tests/unit/test_context.py
Tests cover malformed roots, unsupported keys, duplicate keys, invalid YAML, malformed entries, and nameless views during planning and application. Empty documents remain upgradeable, and malformed sources remain unchanged.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 3739e

The PR prevents lossy legacy-view migrations and preserves the original source on failure, but it is not merge-ready while the CI workflow exposes a write-capable repository credential to checked-out code and does not execute the new regression assertions before committing them.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Upgrade as v1-to-v2 upgrade
  participant Plan as _plan_v1_to_v2
  participant Preflight as _reject_malformed_v1_views
  participant Views as views.yml
  participant Apply as migration apply

  Upgrade->>Plan: Plan migration
  Plan->>Preflight: Validate raw views.yml
  Preflight->>Views: Inspect root, keys, collection, and entries
  alt Malformed view content
    Preflight-->>Plan: Raise UpgradeError
    Plan-->>Upgrade: Abort before source changes
  else Valid or empty document
    Preflight-->>Plan: Validation succeeds
    Plan->>Apply: Continue migration
  end
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A rabbit checks each view with care,
Before old YAML moves elsewhere.
Bad roots stop the upgrade train,
Safe sources stay on disk again.
Empty files pass with no new view—
The migration keeps its promise true.

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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the main change: rejecting lossy v1 view upgrades.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the summary, failure details, implementation changes, test plan, and duplicate check.
Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes satisfy issue #2687 by rejecting lossy view data and preserving the source before migration writes.
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The additional YAML validation covers related lossy or ambiguous migration inputs and remains within the linked issue scope.
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In `@core/wren/src/wren/context.py`:
- Around line 1708-1716: Update the views YAML parsing in the preflight
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- Around line 17-20: Update the actions/checkout step to set persist-credentials
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🔒 Security & Privacy | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Do not retain the write token while executing repository code.

actions/checkout persists its credential by default. Lines 28-79 then execute scripts and import code from the checked-out branch. That code can read the persisted credential and use the repository-wide contents: write permission.

Set persist-credentials: false. Provide the token only to the final git push command.

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In `@core/wren/src/wren/context.py`:
- Line 1711: Update the migration preflight around the root-field validation to
reject any nonempty root mapping whose keys are not preserved by
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In `@core/wren/src/wren/context.py`:
- Line 1708: Update the YAML loading around safe_load to use a
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changes are applied, preserving all existing behavior for valid YAML. Add
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- Around line 1711-1723: Wrap the yaml.load call using _UniqueKeySafeLoader in a
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core/wren/tests/unit/test_context.py (2)

1680-1680: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Import UpgradeError once at module level.

The same local import with a # noqa: PLC0415 suppression repeats in four new tests (Lines 1680, 1699, 1723, 1739). A single module-level import removes all four suppressions and the _UE alias. Confirm whether the test module already imports other wren.context symbols at the top; if it does, add UpgradeError there.

#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail

# Check existing top-level imports and every local UpgradeError import in the test module.
sed -n '1,60p' core/wren/tests/unit/test_context.py
rg -n 'UpgradeError' core/wren/tests/unit/test_context.py
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In `@core/wren/tests/unit/test_context.py` at line 1680, Move the repeated local
UpgradeError imports out of the affected tests and add UpgradeError to the
module-level wren.context imports in test_context.py, removing the _UE alias and
all PLC0415 suppressions while preserving each test’s exception assertions.

1688-1704: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Assert that the apply path created no new files.

_assert_v1_sources_unchanged checks only the four v1 source files and the schema version. It does not detect partially created output. If _apply_v1_to_v2 writes model directories before it reaches the views preflight, this test still passes and the leftover directories go unnoticed.

Add assertions that the migration targets do not exist. The same gap applies to test_apply_upgrade_v1_to_v2_rechecks_yaml_loader_errors_before_writing at Line 1744.

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     with pytest.raises(_UE, match="duplicate YAML key"):
         apply_upgrade(tmp_path, plan)
 
     _assert_v1_sources_unchanged(tmp_path, source_contents)
+    assert not (tmp_path / "models" / "orders").exists()
+    assert not (tmp_path / "models" / "revenue").exists()
+    assert not (tmp_path / "views").exists()
+    assert not (tmp_path / "cubes" / "order_metrics").exists()

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helper in both
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Consider moving _UniqueKeySafeLoader to module scope.

The class is redefined on every call to _reject_malformed_v1_views. Other v1 loaders (models/*.yml, cubes/*.yml, relationships.yml) have the same duplicate-key exposure during migration. A module-level loader that raises yaml.constructor.ConstructorError, with the caller mapping it to UpgradeError, would keep the duplicate-key check reusable and keep PyYAML-specific errors inside the YAML layer.

The current code is correct, so treat this as optional cleanup.

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In `@core/wren/src/wren/context.py` around lines 1708 - 1721, Move
_UniqueKeySafeLoader to module scope so it is defined once and reusable across
all v1 YAML migration loaders, including models, cubes, and relationships. Have
its duplicate-key check raise yaml.constructor.ConstructorError, then map that
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In `@core/wren/src/wren/context.py`:
- Around line 1708-1721: Move _UniqueKeySafeLoader to module scope so it is
defined once and reusable across all v1 YAML migration loaders, including
models, cubes, and relationships. Have its duplicate-key check raise
yaml.constructor.ConstructorError, then map that exception to UpgradeError at
the caller boundary while preserving the existing duplicate-key rejection
behavior.

In `@core/wren/tests/unit/test_context.py`:
- Line 1680: Move the repeated local UpgradeError imports out of the affected
tests and add UpgradeError to the module-level wren.context imports in
test_context.py, removing the _UE alias and all PLC0415 suppressions while
preserving each test’s exception assertions.
- Around line 1688-1704: Extend the shared assertions near
_assert_v1_sources_unchanged to verify that all v2 migration target files and
directories are absent after a failed apply. Use this helper in both
test_apply_upgrade_v1_to_v2_rechecks_duplicate_yaml_keys_before_writing and
test_apply_upgrade_v1_to_v2_rechecks_yaml_loader_errors_before_writing,
preserving the existing source-unchanged checks.

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The direction is right and the test hygiene is good — asserting source preservation and re-checking in apply_upgrade() is exactly what this bug class needs. CI is green and all 195 test_context.py tests pass locally at 3739e91. But the duplicate-key loader introduces a regression, and the preflight still leaves one live instance of the very data-loss class it is closing.

🔴 1. _UniqueKeySafeLoader breaks YAML merge keys — regression vs main

construct_mapping calls self.construct_object(key_node) on every raw key node before delegating to SafeConstructor.construct_mapping, which is what runs flatten_mapping(). At that point a << key still carries tag:yaml.org,2002:merge, and SafeConstructor has no constructor for it.

# views.yml — no extra root keys
views:
  - name: a
    <<: {statement: SELECT 1}
result
main migrates cleanly → views/a/metadata.yml
this PR UpgradeError: Cannot upgrade: invalid views.yml: could not determine a constructor for the tag 'tag:yaml.org,2002:merge'

yaml.safe_load() handles this file fine, so _load_views_v1() and validate_project() still accept it — only the upgrade path now rejects it, with an error that misattributes the cause.

Minimal fix (verified locally — merge keys migrate again, and all 33 duplicate/views tests still pass):

for key_node, _ in node.value:
    if key_node.tag == "tag:yaml.org,2002:merge":
        continue
    key = self.construct_object(key_node, deep=deep)

Skipping the merge node rather than calling flatten_mapping() first also avoids flagging legitimate merge-overridden keys as duplicates.

🔴 2. Colliding view target names are still silently lossy

The preflight validates shape, not target uniqueness. Two views resolving to the same directory still produce exit 0, a deleted views.yml, and one destroyed view — the exact failure mode of #2687:

views:
  - name: revenue
    statement: SELECT 1
  - name: revenue
    statement: SELECT 2
plan created: ['views/revenue/metadata.yml', 'views/revenue/metadata.yml']
apply OK.  views.yml exists? False
  revenue -> statement: SELECT 2      # SELECT 1 is gone

Worse on a case-insensitive filesystem (macOS/Windows default) — name: Revenue plus name: revenue yields a single views/Revenue/ directory containing the revenue view, while the plan claims both were created.

_apply_v1_to_v2() already has the right precedent for cubes:

if target in seen_cube_targets:
    raise UpgradeError(f"Cannot upgrade: multiple legacy cube files map to '{target}'")

Views have no equivalent. For what it's worth, models have the same gap — two models/*.yml files sharing a name: collapse into one directory and both sources are deleted — so a shared target-collision check in the preflight would cover all three, and would sit earlier than the cube check, which currently fires only after model files have already been written and their sources unlinked.

🟡 3. The root-key rule false-positives on anchor-definition blocks

base: &b
  statement: SELECT 1
views:
  - name: a
    <<: *b

main migrates this losslessly — the anchor is fully expanded into the view before anything is written. The new rule rejects it as unsupported root keys would be discarded: base, which is inaccurate: nothing is discarded, the content is carried across by expansion. Worth either excluding keys consumed only as anchor sources, or softening the message so it does not assert data loss it cannot establish.

📝 Notes, not findings


Verified against 3739e91 in a clean worktree: uv sync + pytest tests/unit/test_context.py (195 passed). Each repro above was run as a script comparing actual main and PR behaviour; the fix in finding 1 was applied locally and confirmed to keep the existing tests green.

Baseline note (edited after posting): findings 1–3 were re-verified against current main at bfc2b9ab — my first pass used a stale local checkout. The comparisons are unchanged: a views.yml using a <<: merge key still migrates cleanly on main and is still rejected by this branch, and all three findings stand as described.

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Re-review — 38309b78

All three findings from the previous round are fixed, and verified so:

Merge keys (<<:) ✅ migrate again — views/a/metadata.yml written
Anchor-holder root keys ✅ allowed; unreferenced root keys still rejected
Colliding targets ✅ blocked, exact and case-only, extended to models and cubes

The anchor solution is careful work — walking the composed node graph to test whether a root key's value is actually aliased inside views, with a cycle guard, is the right way to distinguish "holder for an anchor that gets expanded" from "real data that would be dropped". test_apply_upgrade_v1_to_v2_preserves_merge_override shows the merge-override semantics were thought through too: the shadowed SELECT 1 is genuinely not part of the document's effective value, so letting it go is correct rather than a hole.

🔴 CI is red — two one-line fixes

1. lintruff format --check src/ (the job only lints src/, per wren-ci.yml). Three spots in context.py, verbatim from the job log:

  • over-wrapped if in _v1_views_anchor_root_keys → one line
  • missing second blank line before _validate_upgrade_view_statement
  • over-wrapped _record_unique_upgrade_target(seen_cube_targets, target, "cube files") call

ruff format src/ fixes all three.

2. unit testsNameError: name 'yaml' is not defined at test_context.py:1707, in the new test_apply_upgrade_v1_to_v2_preserves_merge_override. test_context.py has no module-level yaml; existing tests import it function-locally (:923, :945) or as _yaml (:2317). Adding import yaml # noqa: PLC0415 inside the test matches the file's convention.

Applying just those two locally: ruff format --check src/ and ruff check src/ clean, tests/unit/test_context.py 202 passed.

🟡 Residual — the collision guard closes case, not Unicode normalization

Same failure mode one axis over. casefold() makes Revenue/revenue equal, but a case-insensitive filesystem is usually normalization-insensitive too:

views:
  - name: café      # NFC:  caf\xc3\xa9
    statement: SELECT 1
  - name: café      # NFD:  cafe\xcc\x81
    statement: SELECT 2
-> MIGRATED (no error). one directory on disk, holding SELECT 2. views.yml gone.

Distinct Python strings, distinct casefold keys, one file on APFS. Keying on unicodedata.normalize("NFC", target).casefold() closes it — I applied that one line and confirmed the NFD case blocks while all four earlier collision cases still block correctly.

Worth being explicit that this is a heuristic either way: no string comparison can fully predict a given filesystem's equivalence rules. Two axes covered is materially better than one, and this is a low-probability case (non-ASCII view names with mixed normalization), so entirely reasonable to defer — but it is the same class as the finding it descends from, so better decided than discovered.

Minor: when the two names normalize together, the message renders them identically — multiple legacy views map to 'views/café/metadata.yml' and 'views/café/metadata.yml'. Using repr() on the two targets would make that legible.

🟢 Minor — the apply-side cube guard is now inconsistent

_plan_v1_to_v2 routes all three collections through _record_unique_upgrade_target (casefold dict), but _apply_v1_to_v2 still keeps its own seen_cube_targets: set[str] with exact-match comparison. Not a bug today — _apply_v1_to_v2 calls _plan_v1_to_v2 first, so the stricter guard always fires — but it leaves a weaker duplicate of the same rule that would silently become the only one if that call were ever dropped. Routing it through the same helper would remove the divergence.

📝 Notes


Verified against main at bfc2b9ab and PR head 38309b78. Both CI failures reproduce locally; the two one-line fixes above were applied locally and confirmed to give clean lint and 202 passed.

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Thanks @NNoradrenaline, due to #2696 merge, there are some conflicts. There are some lint failures, too.

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Follow-up after #2696 merged (992f1da2)

First, the important part: the core of this PR is untouched by that merge. #2696 landed exact-plus-case-insensitive collision guards for models and views only. The entire malformed-views preflight here — shape checks, root keys, duplicate YAML keys, merge-key handling, the anchor-node analysis — has no counterpart on main. What changed is that the collision half of this branch went from "new capability" to "improvement plus the missing cube case", not that it became redundant.

Four things outstanding.

1. CI is still red — two one-line fixes

Nothing has been pushed since 38309b78, so both failures from my last comment still stand:

  • lintruff format src/ fixes all three spots in context.py (over-wrapped if in _v1_views_anchor_root_keys, missing second blank line before _validate_upgrade_view_statement, over-wrapped _record_unique_upgrade_target(...) call in the cube loop).
  • unit testsNameError: name 'yaml' is not defined at test_context.py:1707 in the new test_apply_upgrade_v1_to_v2_preserves_merge_override. The file has no module-level yaml; existing tests import it function-locally (:923, :945) or as _yaml (:2317). A local import yaml # noqa: PLC0415 matches the convention.

Applying just those two locally gives clean ruff format --check src/ / ruff check src/ and 202 passed.

2. Rebase onto 992f1da2 — 4 conflict hunks, all expected

I trial-rebased 38309b78 onto the new main. Every conflict is in the model and view loops of _plan_v1_to_v2, and every one is the same shape:

<<<<<<< main (from #2696)
    seen_model_targets: set[str] = set()
=======
    seen_model_targets: dict[str, str] = {}
>>>>>>> this branch

Resolve by keeping this branch's _record_unique_upgrade_target form in all four. It is a strict superset of what landed: same case-folding, but it also covers cubes, names both colliding targets in the message instead of only the second, and carries the rule once instead of three times.

3. What this branch still uniquely adds after the rebase

on main now
malformed-views preflight absent
cube case guard absent — _plan_v1_to_v2:1922 and _apply_v1_to_v2:2038 are both still exact-match
error naming both colliding targets names only one
the rule as one helper inlined three times, one copy divergent

Cubes are the notable one: after #2696, models and views are case-guarded and cubes are not, so a case-only cube collision still deletes both source files and keeps one. This branch already closes that.

4. Two findings from my last review still open

  • 🟡 NFC/NFD. café (NFC) and café (NFD) are distinct strings with distinct casefold keys but one directory on APFS, so that collision is still silently lossy. unicodedata.normalize("NFC", target).casefold() as the key closes it — I verified that exact change on this branch: the NFD case blocks and all four earlier collision cases still behave.
  • 🟢 _apply_v1_to_v2 still keeps its own seen_cube_targets: set[str] with exact-match comparison, now diverging from the plan-side helper. Harmless while _apply_v1_to_v2 calls _plan_v1_to_v2 first, but it is a weaker duplicate of the same rule.

An alternative worth considering

You could also drop the collision commit (2bb23c3e) entirely and keep only the preflight. The rebase then has almost nothing to resolve, the PR returns to its original single purpose, and the cube case gap becomes a separate issue.

The trade-off is that the cube gap and the message/helper improvements get deferred. But given this branch is currently red, 15 commits behind, and carrying two unrelated bodies of work, narrowing it back to one purpose may well be the faster route to merge. Either way is reasonable — worth a deliberate choice rather than defaulting to the larger rebase.


Verified against main at 992f1da2 and branch head 38309b78: both CI failures reproduce locally, the rebase conflict count and shape are from an actual trial rebase, and the NFC fix and the two CI fixes were each applied locally and confirmed.

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I compared this branch against current main, not this repo's CI, since the question here is about rebase conflicts rather than correctness of the diff in isolation.

This branch's last commit is 38309b78 (2026-08-31T04:57:36Z). PR #2696 merged into main at 2026-08-31T05:55:24Z, about an hour later, and it already added case-folded collision checks for model and view targets inline in _plan_v1_to_v2 (seen_model_targets / seen_view_targets, both keyed on target.casefold()). This PR reintroduces the same checks through a new _record_unique_upgrade_target() helper, so a rebase will conflict in _plan_v1_to_v2 around the model and view loops:

$ gh api repos/Canner/WrenAI/contents/core/wren/src/wren/context.py --jq '.content' | base64 -d \
  | sed -n '1855,1880p'
    seen_model_targets: set[str] = set()
    ...
        if target.casefold() in seen_model_targets:
            raise UpgradeError(
                f"Cannot upgrade: multiple legacy models map to '{target}'"
            )
        seen_model_targets.add(target.casefold())

One thing worth keeping from this PR's version rather than dropping outright: _record_unique_upgrade_target() is shared across models, views and cubes, so it also casefolds the cube check. Main's cube check is still a plain target in seen_cube_targets with no casefold (confirmed at the same file, line 1922), a gap #2696 left open on purpose as out of scope for that PR.

If you rebase onto current main, the model/view portions of this diff are redundant with what's already there, but _reject_malformed_v1_views() (the actual fix for #2687) is not on main at all and is still needed. Might be worth splitting this into just the malformed-views preflight plus, if you want it, extending the cube loop to target.casefold() the same way models/views already do.

I have not run this branch; this is a static read against current main's source, not a Docker repro.

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