# What
Fully deprecate old relations because we have one bug tied to it and it
make the codebase complex
# How I've made this PR:
1. remove metadata datasource (we only keep 'core') => this was causing
extra complexity in the refactor + flaky reset
2. merge dev and demo datasets => as I needed to update the tests which
is very painful, I don't want to do it twice
3. remove all code tied to RELATION_METADATA /
relation-metadata.resolver, or anything tied to the old relation system
4. Remove ONE_TO_ONE and MANY_TO_MANY that are not supported
5. fix impacts on the different areas : see functional testing below
# Functional testing
## Functional testing from the front-end:
1. Database Reset ✅
2. Sign In ✅
3. Workspace sign-up ✅
5. Browsing table / kanban / show ✅
6. Assigning a record in a one to many / in a many to one ✅
7. Deleting a record involved in a relation ✅ => broken but not tied to
this PR
8. "Add new" from relation picker ✅ => broken but not tied to this PR
9. Creating a Task / Note, Updating a Task / Note relations, Deleting a
Task / Note (from table, show page, right drawer) ✅ => broken but not
tied to this PR
10. creating a relation from settings (custom / standard x oneToMany /
manyToOne) ✅
11. updating a relation from settings should not be possible ✅
12. deleting a relation from settings (custom / standard x oneToMany /
manyToOne) ✅
13. Make sure timeline activity still work (relation were involved
there), espacially with Task / Note => to be double checked ✅ => Cannot
convert undefined or null to object
14. Workspace deletion / User deletion ✅
15. CSV Import should keep working ✅
16. Permissions: I have tested without permissions V2 as it's still hard
to test v2 work and it's not in prod yet ✅
17. Workflows global test ✅
## From the API:
1. Review open-api documentation (REST) ✅
2. Make sure REST Api are still able to fetch relations ==> won't do, we
have a coupling Get/Update/Create there, this requires refactoring
3. Make sure REST Api is still able to update / remove relation => won't
do same
## Automated tests
1. lint + typescript ✅
2. front unit tests: ✅
3. server unit tests 2 ✅
4. front stories: ✅
5. server integration: ✅
6. chromatic check : expected 0
7. e2e check : expected no more that current failures
## Remove // Todos
1. All are captured by functional tests above, nothing additional to do
## (Un)related regressions
1. Table loading state is not working anymore, we see the empty state
before table content
2. Filtering by Creator Tim Ap return empty results
3. Not possible to add Tasks / Notes / Files from show page
# Result
## New seeds that can be easily extended
<img width="1920" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d290d130-2a5f-44e6-b419-7e42a89eec4b"
/>
## -5k lines of code
## No more 'metadata' dataSource (we only have 'core)
## No more relationMetadata (I haven't drop the table yet it's not
referenced in the code anymore)
## We are ready to fix the 6 months lag between current API results and
our mocked tests
## No more bug on relation creation / deletion
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Co-authored-by: Weiko <corentin@twenty.com>
Co-authored-by: Félix Malfait <felix@twenty.com>
## Context
- Introduced objectPermissions in currentUserWorkspace which uses role
permissions from cache so we can fetch granular permissions from the API
- Refactored cached role permissions to map permissions with object
metadata id instead of object metadata name singular to be more flexible
New Cache
<img width="574" alt="Screenshot 2025-05-27 at 11 59 06"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/1a090134-1b8a-4681-a630-29f1472178bd"
/>
GQL
<img width="977" alt="Screenshot 2025-05-27 at 11 58 53"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3b9a82b0-6019-4a25-a6e2-a9e0fb4bb8a0"
/>
Next steps: Use the updated API in the FE to fetch granular permissions
and update useHasObjectReadOnlyPermission hook
In this PR we are
- introducing a cached map `{ userworkspaceId: roleId } `to reduce calls
to get a userWorkspace's role (we were having N+1 around that with
combinedFindMany queries and generally having a lot of avoidable
queries)
- using the roles permissions cache (`{ roleId: { objectNameSingular:
{ canRead: bool, canUpdate: bool, ...} } `) in Permissions V1's
userHasObjectPermission, in order to 1) improve performances to avoid
calls to get roles 2) start using our permissions cache
In this PR we are
- (if permissionsV2 is enabled) executing permission checks at query
builder level. To do so we want to override the query builders methods
that are performing db calls (.execute(), .getMany(), ... etc.) For now
I have just overriden some of the query builders methods for the poc. To
do so I created custom query builder classes that extend typeorm's query
builder (selectQueryBuilder and updateQueryBuilder, for now and later I
will tackle softDeleteQueryBuilder, etc.).
- adding a notion of roles permissions version and roles permissions
object to datasources. We will now use one datasource per roleId and
rolePermissionVersion. Both rolesPermissionsVersion and rolesPermissions
objects are stored in redis and recomputed at role update or if queried
and found empty. Unlike for metadata version we don't need to store a
version in the db that stands for the source of truth. We also don't
need to destroy and recreate the datasource if the rolesPermissions
version changes, but only to update the value for rolesPermissions and
rolesPermissionsVersions on the existing datasource.
What this PR misses
- computing of roles permissions should take into account
objectPermissions table (for now it only looks at what's on the roles
table)
- pursue extension of query builder classes and overriding of their db
calling-methods
- what should the behaviour be for calls from twentyOrmGlobalManager
that don't have a roleId?
Charles Bochet