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Files render in the browser: CSV/TSV as a real table — sticky header, sort, filter, row count #7388

Merged scoutcrew opened this 17d agoin answer to trevatoowner

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CSV and TSV files now open as a table on the file page. Type check, design lint and the CSV, kinds, long-file and media tests pass. I didn't run the full suite or load the page in a browser, so the sort and filter script is untested beyond a string check. The forge's check runs the full suite on this push.

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scoutcrew opened this 17d ago

What changed

Parser (src/web/render/csv-parse.ts): RFC 4180, with quoted fields, newlines inside a field, doubled quotes, a BOM, and CRLF or LF. The delimiter (, ; tab |) is detected from the first record, ignoring anything inside quotes.
Renderer (src/web/render/csv.ts): registered in the kind registry. It draws the first 1,000 rows with a sticky header and the first column sticky, and right-aligns numeric columns. The header line reads e.g. "2 rows × 2 columns · comma-separated".
Show all rows: "Show all N rows" is a plain link to the existing ?all=1 and works without JavaScript. It draws at most 20,000 rows.
Malformed files: a file with an unclosed quote, text after a closing quote, or no rows shows the source view with a one-line reason. Rendered | Source | Raw | Download keeps working.
Client script: about 90 lines, no library. It sorts on a header click or Enter and adds a filter box that stays hidden until the script runs. It is loaded on the code pages (codePage in repo.ts), so it also covers the inline preview.
repo.ts edits: kept small. RenderInput gains all and pathHref, and Rendered gains optional summary and fallback. renderBlob uses those to show the header line and the fallback.
Styles and docs: a few CSS rules in src/web/style/content.ts, docs/features/csv-view.md, and docs/design/areas/csv.md naming the new classes.

Tests (test/render-csv.test.ts)

Parser: quotes, newline in a field, BOM, ;, tab and |, malformed input, and numeric-column detection.
Page shape: escaping and right-aligned numbers.
A 50k-row file renders exactly 1,000 rows in under 500 ms, and ?all=1 caps at 20,000.
Fallback reason.
Registration.

Left out

Sort and filter only act on the rows drawn. They don't reach rows the page didn't draw.
The first row is always treated as the header, with no toggle.
Ragged rows are padded rather than flagged.
Cells aren't truncated beyond a CSS width limit.

To try it, open any .csv or .tsv in a repo's code view. Add ?all=1 for more rows, or ?view=source for the plain text.

Closes #7334

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

What changed

Parser (src/web/render/csv-parse.ts): RFC 4180, with quoted fields, newlines inside a field, doubled quotes, a BOM, and CRLF or LF. The delimiter (, ; tab |) is detected from the first record, ignoring anything inside quotes.
Renderer (src/web/render/csv.ts): registered in the kind registry. It draws the first 1,000 rows with a sticky header and the first column sticky, and right-aligns numeric columns. The header line reads e.g. "2 rows × 2 columns · comma-separated".
Show all rows: "Show all N rows" is a plain link to the existing ?all=1 and works without JavaScript. It draws at most 20,000 rows.
Malformed files: a file with an unclosed quote, text after a closing quote, or no rows shows the source view with a one-line reason. Rendered | Source | Raw | Download keeps working.
Client script: about 90 lines, no library. It sorts on a header click or Enter and adds a filter box that stays hidden until the script runs. It is loaded on the code pages (codePage in repo.ts), so it also covers the inline preview.
repo.ts edits: kept small. RenderInput gains all and pathHref, and Rendered gains optional summary and fallback. renderBlob uses those to show the header line and the fallback.
Styles and docs: a few CSS rules in src/web/style/content.ts, docs/features/csv-view.md, and docs/design/areas/csv.md naming the new classes.

Tests (test/render-csv.test.ts)

Parser: quotes, newline in a field, BOM, ;, tab and |, malformed input, and numeric-column detection.
Page shape: escaping and right-aligned numbers.
A 50k-row file renders exactly 1,000 rows in under 500 ms, and ?all=1 caps at 20,000.
Fallback reason.
Registration.

Left out

Sort and filter only act on the rows drawn. They don't reach rows the page didn't draw.
The first row is always treated as the header, with no toggle.
Ragged rows are padded rather than flagged.
Cells aren't truncated beyond a CSS width limit.

To try it, open any .csv or .tsv in a repo's code view. Add ?all=1 for more rows, or ?view=source for the plain text.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

The check failed because the sort-arrow CSS I added used font-size: 11.5px, which is under the type floor of 12px. I changed it to 12.5px in src/web/style/content.ts and pushed.

The type floor test (in test/ui-sweep.test.ts) and the CSV tests pass locally, and so do the type check and design lint. I didn't re-run the full suite here, so the forge's check on this push is the full confirmation.

This pull adds CSV and TSV files as a table on the file page. It has a sticky header, sort on header click, a filter box, a rows × columns count, and a "Show all N rows" link that works without JavaScript. Try it by opening any .csv or .tsv in a repo's code view.

junipercrew Changes requested 17d ago— before the latest push

The table, parser, fallback and no-JS ?all=1 link are the right shape. Five things to fix in one round:

FIRST: no test reaches renderBlob. The header summary, the fallback note ("Showing the source: …"), the Rendered/Source current logic and o.all reaching the renderer through repo.ts are all untested. Revert the repo.ts hunks and every test still passes. Add a test that renders a blob page for a .csv (the summary appears, Rendered is current) and for a malformed one (the reason appears, Source is current), and one for ?all=1.

test/render-csv.test.ts, the 50k-row case: expect(performance.now() - t).toBeLessThan(500) is a wall-clock assertion, and the direction is fast tests that never flake. Drop it and assert the row count and the link, which is what the budget actually protects. If the time matters, assert that the parser stopped at ROW_CAP rather than timing it.

Keyboard and screen reader: the sort headers are th elements made focusable with injected tabIndex and role. Put a real <button> inside each th in the script, or render it server-side hidden until the script runs, so it has a native focus ring and Space/Enter handling. Add a :focus-visible rule for it in content.ts. Also give the table an accessible name, such as aria-label="<file name> data", and make the filter count (data-csv-count) aria-live="polite" so the result is announced. Sorting also needs to be announced, which aria-sort on a real button inside the column header gives.

style.cursor = 'pointer' is set in JS. Move it to CSS (.csv-view thead th in the script-only state, for example .csv-view [data-sortable]) so styling stays in tokens/content.ts and the design-lint stays meaningful.

The script's MutationObserver on document.body with subtree re-runs scan() on every DOM change on the page, including the finder and the explorer. Scan once on load and re-scan only where the code view swaps its content, or limit the observer to the content container. The script is also appended to every code page, including pages with no table. Gate it so it is only emitted when the page can contain a CSV.

Smaller: on a phone the 75vh nested scroll box plus sticky header can trap the thumb, so confirm that vertical page scroll still works when the thumb starts on the table. Note the result in the pull, since the pull says no browser was opened. The README is not touched. Add the one line on how to open a CSV and the ?all=1 and ?view=source doors, since docs/features alone is not where a person looks. Nothing here adds a tty door. State in the pull that the terminal shows CSVs as source, as before.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

All five points are addressed and pushed. The CSV, kinds, long-file and ui-sweep tests, the type check and design lint pass. I haven't run the full suite, and I haven't opened a browser, so the script and the phone behaviour below are unchecked.

renderBlob tests: test/render-csv.test.ts now renders the blob page itself, with these cases:

- A .csv shows the "2 rows × 2 columns · comma-separated" summary and the table, with Rendered current. - A malformed one shows "Showing the source: A quoted field is never closed." and the numbered source lines, with Source current. - all reaches the renderer: "Show all 1,500 rows" appears without it and the full 1,501 table rows with it. - ?view=source shows the source lines instead of the table.

Timing assertion: dropped. The 50k-row test asserts the 1,000-row count and the link. I did not add a parser stop at ROW_CAP: the parser still reads the whole file, which is what gives the total row count.
Keyboard and screen reader:

- The script puts a real <button class="csv-sort"> inside each header cell. Space and Enter are native and there is a :focus-visible rule. - The table has aria-label="<file name> data", and the filter count is aria-live="polite". - Where I differ: I kept aria-sort on the <th> rather than the button. ARIA allows it only on column headers, and the <th> is the column header.

Cursor: it is now CSS on the button, not set in JS.
Script scope:

- The MutationObserver is gone. The script scans once on load and again on the code:swap event the code view already fires. - codePage takes an extraJs option, and only blob pages for .csv or .tsv pass the script. - Gap: a CSV opened from another file's page, through the explorer's in-page swap, shows the server-rendered table without sort or filter. A full page load of the CSV has them. - The "Smaller" items are done as follows: - Phone scroll: not verified. The table scrolls inside a 75vh box with default scroll chaining, so a drag that reaches the end of the box should hand over to the page. That is untested. - README: gained a line on opening a CSV, ?all=1 and ?view=source. - Terminal: this adds no terminal door. The terminal shows CSVs as source, as before. - Design notes: .csv-sort is named in docs/design/areas/csv.md.

junipercrew Approved 17d ago— before the latest push

Earlier asks: renderBlob tests (met, four page-level cases), timing assertion dropped (met), real button.csv-sort with focus-visible and aria-sort on the th (met, your reasoning is right), cursor in CSS (met), MutationObserver removed and script only on CSV paths (met), README line (met), terminal stated as source-only (acceptable for a read-only view). Escaping is by the html template and cells go through escapeHtml; filter is hidden until script runs, so JS-off still reads the table and Show all works as a plain link.

Two things I would do next, both non-blocking:

Non-blocking: a CSV reached through the explorer in-page swap has no sort/filter because extraJs is only sent on full loads. Ship csvJs on every code page, or have the swap fetch it, so behaviour does not depend on how the person arrived.
Non-blocking: check the 75vh .csv-scroll box on a 360px phone: a thumb drag inside it must hand over to the page scroll, and the sticky first column needs a visible edge. I could not verify this without a browser.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

I merged main into the branch, resolved the conflicts in src/web/pages/repo.ts and src/web/render/renderers.ts, and pushed. The type check, design lint and the CSV, kinds, long-file, media, ui-sweep, audio, video and player tests pass. I didn't run the full suite, so the forge's check covers that.

repo.ts: I took main's rendererFor and renderer.render(...), and main's header line that prints summary when there is one. I kept my all and pathHref inputs, the fallback note, the Rendered/Source current logic and the CSV-only script.
renderers.ts: main had also added an optional summary to Rendered, so there is one field with both meanings. The registry now holds markdown, csv, audio and video.
Header line: main prints the summary alone, without the size. So the CSV summary now carries the size itself, e.g. "2 rows × 2 columns · comma-separated · 18 B", and I updated the test that asserted the old text.

The first push after the merge had that summary test failing. I fixed it in a follow-up commit, and the latest push has it passing.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

The failing test is a timing flake and not caused by this pull, so I changed no code. I pushed an empty commit to make the forge run the check again.

Where it failed: GET /apps/open names its phases and answers within its budget asserts that the time not covered by a named phase is at most 1.5 ms. It lives in test/app-pages-timing.test.ts, one of seven timing files that share that test name.
What I saw locally: I ran it three times. It failed once, at 1.6 ms against the 1.5 ms allowance, and passed the other two.
Why it isn't this pull: the branch's diff touches only the CSV renderer, the blob page, one CSS file, docs and a new test file. Nothing on the /apps/open route is among them.

I did not loosen the test's allowance, because that belongs to whoever owns the timing suite. If the check fails on this test again, it needs a person to look at the allowance.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 17d ago— before the latest push

The parser, the escaping, the no-JS ?all=1 link and the fallback are good. Juniper's earlier points are all met. One high finding blocks this.

HIGH: denial of service by column padding (fix this first). csv() pads every drawn row to parsed.columns, the width of the widest row in the whole file. numericColumns also walks every column over every row. So a single row of commas multiplies work by every other row. I reproduced it against this head (cb6d0dd):

A 12 KB file (h, 1,000 rows of x, one row of 10,000 commas) gives 90 MB of HTML and takes 2.6 s.
A 102 KB file gives 900 MB of HTML and takes 27 s with the event loop blocked.
At the 10 MB RENDER_CAP the process runs out of memory.

Anyone who can push a file to any repository can stall or crash the forge for every viewer by opening one page, guests included on a public repo. Fix: cap the columns drawn (e.g. 200, with a line saying "Showing 200 of N columns") and bound the total cells drawn (e.g. rows × drawn columns ≤ 200k, shrinking the row window when the table is wide). Bound numericColumns to the drawn rows and columns. Add a test with a 1,000-row file plus one 100k-comma row that asserts the HTML stays under a fixed size, which fails today.

MEDIUM: the full file is parsed on every view. A normal 10 MB CSV (400k rows × 5 columns) takes about 400 ms in csv() on each request, against a page budget of milliseconds. Once the drawn rows are collected, stop building field strings and only count records for the "N rows" total, with a cheap quote-aware scan. Test that the parser keeps no more than the window's rows.

Preview: the preview answers. This repository has no .csv to open there, so the page could not be judged by eye. The finding above was reproduced by running this head's src/web/render/csv.ts directly.

Not blocking: ship csvJs with codeJs, or on the swap, so a CSV reached through the explorer also sorts and filters.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

Both of Sentinel's findings are fixed and pushed. test/render-csv.test.ts, the ui-sweep and long-file tests, the type check and design lint pass. I did not run the full suite.

HIGH, column-padding DoS:

Caps: the page draws at most 200 columns (COLUMN_CAP) and at most 200,000 cells (CELL_CAP). When the table is wide, the row window shrinks to fit.
Notice: the line under the table says "Showing 200 of N columns" and the usual row count.
Numeric detection: numericColumns now only looks at the rows and columns that were kept.
Test: a file with 1,000 short rows plus one row of 100,000 commas must produce under 2 MB of HTML and carry the columns notice. I did not run that test against the old code to confirm it fails there.

MEDIUM, full parse on every view:

Limits: parseCsv takes { rows, columns }. It builds fields only for the first rows records and the first columns fields of each, and past that it only counts records and tracks the widest row.
Quotes: it still checks the rest of the file for unclosed quotes and text after a closing quote, so a malformed tail still falls back to source.
Timing: a 10 MB file of 400,000 rows × 5 columns now takes about 117 ms in csv() here, down from about 400 ms by Sentinel's measurement. That is still above a millisecond-scale page budget, so I did not meet it.
Tests: the parser keeps exactly the window's rows while counting all records, and an unclosed quote in the tail is still caught.

I also fixed a bug this change would have introduced: a file with no trailing newline lost its last row from the count.

I did not act on the non-blocking note about csvJs. A CSV reached through the explorer's in-page swap still shows the table without sort or filter. A full page load has both. Loading the script on every code page was the other reviewer's objection.

junipercrew Approved 17d ago— before the latest push

Both of Sentinel's blockers are met: columns are capped at 200 and cells at 200,000 with a visible notice, numericColumns is bounded to the kept rows and columns, and the parser keeps only the window while it counts the rest. The bounds test covers the wide row, and the parser test covers the window. My earlier asks (renderBlob tests, a real button in each header, aria-sort on the th, no MutationObserver, the script loaded only for CSV paths, README line, design notes) are met. Fallback to source with a reason, a no-JS ?all=1 link, escaping, and the existing .table/.card/.input components all hold to DESIGN.md. I did not re-read the preview by eye because this repository has no CSV to open there.

Two things I would do next:

Non-blocking: a CSV reached through the explorer's in-page swap has no sort or filter until a full load. Ship csvJs on the swap or with codeJs.
Non-blocking: a 10 MB file still costs about 117 ms per view to count records. Cache the count by blob id, or stop scanning at a byte budget and say 'at least N rows'. Also, in sort(), empty cells in a numeric column sort as Infinity, so they lead on descending; they should stay last.

scoutcrew commented 17d ago

I merged main into the branch and pushed. The type check passes, and the CSV, kinds, long-file, media, ui-sweep and blob-media-ceiling tests pass. I didn't run the full suite, so the forge's check covers that.

Conflict: src/web/pages/repo.ts conflicted only in the imports. Both sides were needed, so the file keeps the CSV import (csvJs, isCsvPath) and main's HEAD_BYTES import.
Type error after the merge: test/blob-media-ceiling.test.ts from main builds a RenderInput without the pathHref and all fields I added. I made both optional instead of editing that test. Without pathHref, the CSV "Show all" link falls back to an empty address.

sentinelcrew Approved 17d ago— before the latest push

Both of my earlier asks are met at bd5a704. The check is green.

HIGH, column-padding DoS: met. I re-ran my repro against this head. The 102 KB file (1,000 rows plus one row of 100,000 commas) used to produce 900 MB of HTML in 27 s. It now produces 1.8 MB in 73 ms, with "Showing 200 of 100,001 columns". A 10 MB single row of commas with ?all=1 produces almost no HTML in about 150 ms. COLUMN_CAP and CELL_CAP bound the draw, numericColumns is bounded to the kept rows and columns, and the new bounds test would fail on the old code.
MEDIUM, full parse on every view: met as asked. The parser keeps only the window and counts the rest. A 400k × 5 file now takes about 90 ms, down from about 400 ms. A malformed tail still falls back to source, and there is a test for it.

The parser rewrite holds up. Field start is decided the same way for kept and counted rows, so a stray quote inside an unquoted field is treated alike in both. A final record with no newline is still counted. Every cell goes through escapeHtml, and the link's href is escaped. test/render-csv.test.ts passes here (17 tests). The other changes since my last review are main's, merged in: capped/HEAD_BYTES and MEDIA_KINDS, plus pathHref/all made optional. None of them reopens anything.

The preview answers /, but a guest sees no repository there, so I could not open a CSV by eye. The page-level renderBlob tests cover the table, the fallback and ?all=1.

Two non-blocking points:

Non-blocking: see the line comment on rows: want + 1.
Non-blocking: in sort(), empty cells in a numeric column become Infinity, so they come first when sorting descending. Keep them last in both directions.

scoutcrew commented 16d ago

I merged main into the branch and pushed it. The type check is clean, and the 84 tests across the six render and media test files pass. I didn't run the full suite, because scripts/fast.ts named 949 of 1621 files; the forge's check will run it on the push.

The only conflict was in the import block of src/web/render/renderers.ts. main added image and this branch adds csv, so I kept both imports. The RENDERERS map already listed both.

The CSV/TSV table view and its tests are unchanged.

sentinelcrew Changes requested 16d ago— before the latest push

Earlier asks: both met. The column/cell caps (200 columns, 200,000 cells) with a visible notice and the bounded parse close my HIGH and MEDIUM findings; the bounds and window tests cover them.

One new ask, on the README line this pull adds: it says "The terminal still shows CSVs as source." That is no longer true on main. #7401 (c3737f65) made the terminal workspace open a .csv/.tsv as an aligned table, with s for source, and README line 80 documents it. The new line contradicts that and docs/features/csv-view.md should not repeat it. Fix: drop the sentence, and say the terminal has its own table view (see the line-80 section). Non-blocking: the web parser in csv-parse.ts duplicates src/text/csv.ts; a follow-up issue to share one parser would be right. Non-blocking: in sort(), empty cells in a numeric column sort as Infinity, so they lead on descending; keep them last.

scoutcrew commented 16d ago

I fixed the README line and the empty-cell sort, and pushed both.

README: the sentence "The terminal still shows CSVs as source." is gone from the csv-view.md entry. It now says the terminal has its own table view and points at the .csv paragraph from #7401. docs/features/csv-view.md had no mention of the terminal, so it needed no change.
Empty numeric cells: in sort() in src/web/render/csv.ts, empty cells in a numeric column now sort last in both directions. Before, they sorted as Infinity and led on descending. I added no test for the new ordering, so it isn't pinned.
Tests: the two CSV test files pass (29 tests) and tsc --noEmit is clean. scripts/fast.ts found the diff too broad to name tests, so I ran only the CSV tests and left the full check to the forge.

I left the duplicate parser (csv-parse.ts against src/text/csv.ts) alone, as you marked it non-blocking. A follow-up issue to share one parser is still needed. I haven't opened it.

junipercrew Approved 16d ago

Earlier asks, all met: (1) README no longer says the terminal shows CSVs as source; it points at the terminal table view. (2) Empty cells in a numeric column now sort last in both directions (the null branch in sort() is not multiplied by dir). The earlier column/cell caps, bounded parse, no-JS ?all=1 link, button-in-th sort, aria-sort, aria-live count and fallback-to-source all stand. Check is green.

Two things I would do next:

Non-blocking: add a test that pins the empty-last sort order, and open the follow-up issue to share one parser between csv-parse.ts and src/text/csv.ts.
Non-blocking: ship the sort/filter script on the explorer in-page swap too, so a CSV reached that way is not a plain table; and check the 75vh scroll box hands the drag to the page on a 360px phone.