## Context
LabelIdentifier and ImageIdentifier are metadata info attached to
objectMetadata that are used to display a record in a more readable way.
Those columns point to existing fields that are part of the object.
For example, for a relation picker of a person, we will show a record
using the "name" labelIdentifier and the "avatarUrl" imageIdentifier.
<img width="215" alt="Screenshot 2024-07-11 at 18 45 51"
src="https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/assets/1834158/488f8294-0d7c-4209-b763-2499716ef29d">
Currently, the FE has a specific logic for company and people objects
and we have a way to update this value via the API for custom objects,
but the code is not flexible enough to change other standard objects.
This PR updates the WorkspaceEntity API so we can now provide the
labelIdentifier and imageIdentifier in the WorkspaceEntity decorator.
Example:
```typescript
@WorkspaceEntity({
standardId: STANDARD_OBJECT_IDS.activity,
namePlural: 'activities',
labelSingular: 'Activity',
labelPlural: 'Activities',
description: 'An activity',
icon: 'IconCheckbox',
labelIdentifierStandardId: ACTIVITY_STANDARD_FIELD_IDS.title,
})
@WorkspaceIsSystem()
export class ActivityWorkspaceEntity extends BaseWorkspaceEntity {
@WorkspaceField({
standardId: ACTIVITY_STANDARD_FIELD_IDS.title,
type: FieldMetadataType.TEXT,
label: 'Title',
description: 'Activity title',
icon: 'IconNotes',
})
title: string;
...
```
## Context
Our Flexible Schema engine dynamically generates entities/tables/APIs
for us but was not flexible enough to build indexes in the DB. With more
and more features involving heavy queries such as Messaging, we are now
adding a new WorkspaceIndex() decorator for our standard objects (will
come later for custom objects). This decorator will give enough
information to the workspace sync metadata manager to generate the
proper migrations that will create or drop indexes on demand.
To be aligned with the rest of the engine, we are adding 2 new tables:
IndexMetadata and IndexFieldMetadata, that will store the info of our
indexes.
## Implementation
```typescript
@WorkspaceEntity({
standardId: STANDARD_OBJECT_IDS.person,
namePlural: 'people',
labelSingular: 'Person',
labelPlural: 'People',
description: 'A person',
icon: 'IconUser',
})
export class PersonWorkspaceEntity extends BaseWorkspaceEntity {
@WorkspaceField({
standardId: PERSON_STANDARD_FIELD_IDS.email,
type: FieldMetadataType.EMAIL,
label: 'Email',
description: 'Contact’s Email',
icon: 'IconMail',
})
@WorkspaceIndex()
email: string;
```
By simply adding the WorkspaceIndex decorator, sync-metadata command
will create a new index for that column.
We can also add composite indexes, note that the order is important for
PSQL.
```typescript
@WorkspaceEntity({
standardId: STANDARD_OBJECT_IDS.person,
namePlural: 'people',
labelSingular: 'Person',
labelPlural: 'People',
description: 'A person',
icon: 'IconUser',
})
@WorkspaceIndex(['phone', 'email'])
export class PersonWorkspaceEntity extends BaseWorkspaceEntity {
```
Currently composite fields and relation fields are not handled by
@WorkspaceIndex() and you will need to use this notation instead
```typescript
@WorkspaceIndex(['companyId', 'nameFirstName'])
export class PersonWorkspaceEntity extends BaseWorkspaceEntity {
```
<img width="700" alt="Screenshot 2024-06-21 at 15 15 45"
src="https://github.com/twentyhq/twenty/assets/1834158/ac6da1d9-d315-40a4-9ba6-6ab9ae4709d4">
Next step: We might need to implement more complex index expressions,
this is why we have an expression column in IndexMetadata.
What I had in mind for the decorator, still open to discussion
```typescript
@WorkspaceIndex(['nameFirstName', 'nameLastName'], { expression: "$1 || ' ' || $2"})
export class PersonWorkspaceEntity extends BaseWorkspaceEntity {
```
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Co-authored-by: Charles Bochet <charles@twenty.com>
Experiment using swc instead of tsc (as we did the switch on
twenty-front)
It's **much** faster (at least 5x) but has stricter requirements.
I fixed the build but there's still an error while starting the server,
opening this PR for discussion.
Checkout the branch and try `nx build:swc twenty-server`
Read: https://docs.nestjs.com/recipes/swc#common-pitfalls
Added isAuditLogged column to object-metadata-entity.ts
This is my first open source pull request. Please do let me know if made
any mistake. I will be greatfull. Thank u
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Co-authored-by: Félix Malfait <felix@twenty.com>
Co-authored-by: Félix Malfait <felix.malfait@gmail.com>
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