powersync.dart icon indicating copy to clipboard operation
powersync.dart copied to clipboard

Validate Fields Early

Open mcmah309 opened this issue 6 months ago • 1 comments

I got into a state where https://github.com/powersync-ja/powersync.dart/blob/512357877a50d1ac0b7c32ea08ce302336c94a51/packages/powersync/lib/src/crud.dart#L86 was failing since somehow data['id'] was an int. I didn't see an easy way to resolve this so I had to run

await db.execute("DELETE FROM ps_crud;");

To drop the queue. I believe this resulted from me accidentally writing something like

INSERT INTO table_name(id, ...) VALUES (random_int)

Instead of

INSERT INTO table_name(id, ...) VALUES (uuid())

Which messed up all of syncing, even if I deleted the original code/table. Ideally a mistake like this would never make it to production, but if it did, is there a better way to recover without losing user data? Or at least in this case, validate early so for essential fields these situations cannot occur.

It is worth noting that all subsequent inserts would not sync until ps_crud was dropped.

mcmah309 avatar Aug 02 '24 01:08 mcmah309