Rank family: required direction on rank/dense_rank, ascending ntile/percent_rank, NULL ranks NULL - #463
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…nse_rank, ascending ntile/percent_rank, NULL inputs rank NULL, lazy stored-only migration New: tests/test_rank_direction.py, tests/test_rank_direction_migration.py, tests/test_rank_direction_golden_sql.py (baseline recorded after implementation), tests/_rank_direction_fixtures.py. Existing rank calls gain direction='desc'; NULL-inner expected values become NULL; rank-family SQL pins check the window shape structurally. Spec/design: inline ModelExtension measures are migrated too.
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Query->>FormulaParser: parse rank formula with direction
FormulaParser->>TransformBinder: pass transform arguments
TransformBinder->>SQLGenerator: pass normalized direction and partitions
SQLGenerator->>Query: return SQL with NULL-guarded rank window
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360-397: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🔵 Trivial | 🏗️ Heavy liftAdd execution-backed NULL rank-family tests for PostgreSQL, T-SQL, and BigQuery.
The NULL result tests execute only on SQLite and DuckDB. The other supported dialects only generate SQL and inspect its window shape. A dialect-specific regression in NULL exclusion or the
percent_rankdenominator can therefore pass the existing tests. Add equivalent execution assertions for PostgreSQL, T-SQL, and BigQuery where those integration paths are available.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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around `test_null_inner_is_null_for_every_function` to PostgreSQL, T-SQL, and
BigQuery wherever integration execution is available. Assert that NULL inner
values produce NULL results and non-NULL rows produce values, including
percent-rank behavior; retain the existing SQLite and DuckDB coverage.
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Subclasses TestNullInputs over a pytest-postgresql database. T-SQL and BigQuery stay emission-only here: no local ODBC driver / no credentials.
One helper builds the accepted-keywords list for both unknown-keyword errors; hoisting it out of the binder loop clears Sonar S3776 (18 -> 13).
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Linear: DEV-2040
Why
The rank family always ordered by the inner value descending, with no way to choose. An agent asked for "the cheapest ACI" wrote
rank(total_fees) <= 1and silently got the most expensive one. Therank(-x)workaround only works for numbers, so "earliest" or "alphabetically first" could not be ranked from the bottom at all.What changes for users
rank/dense_rankrequiredirection=.'desc'ranks the highest value 1 and'asc'the lowest. The synonymsascending/descending, in any case, are accepted too. Leaving it out fails before any SQL runs, with a typedTransformArgumentErrorthat shows both spellings:{"source_model": "orders", "dimensions": ["aci"], "measures": ["sum(total_fees)"], "filters": ["rank(sum(total_fees), direction='asc') <= 1"]}This now returns the cheapest ACI. Without
direction=:Any orderable inner works, e.g.
rank(min(created_at), direction='asc')for "earliest first".ntile/percent_rankalways order ascending and rejectdirection=: bucket 1 is the lowest quartile, and the lowest value has percent rank 0. This flips their previous results.A NULL inner value ranks NULL, for all four functions and on every dialect. NULL rows take no rank position or bucket and don't count in
percent_rank's denominator, sorank(...) <= Nfilters drop them. The window is emitted asso the result no longer depends on the dialect's NULL ordering (T-SQL sorts NULLs first on
ASC).Unnamed rank keys spell the direction as a bare value:
rank(sum(amount), direction='desc')returnssales.rank_amount_sum_desc, not..._direction_desc. Existing auto-named rank keys change.Saved artifacts
Stored models, query-backed models'
source_queries, inline source models / extensions and memories saved before this change migrate lazily on load. Every barerank(/dense_rank(in a Mode-B field (measure formulas, filters, dimensions, time dimensions, order,main_time_dimension) gainsdirection='desc', keeping its old meaning. Mode-A SQL (Column.sql, model filters, aggregation templates) andntile/percent_rankare never touched.tokenize), so formatting and colon syntax survive. Strings andx.rank(are skipped, and untokenisable text is left byte-identical.version. Storage load paths stampversion: 1on unversioned stored documents.rankin it errors.SlayerModel13,SlayerQuery5,Memory3. Models are written back on first load.Two pre-existing migration quirks had to be fixed for this:
source_queriesan explicitversion, which would have made a fresh query-backed model's nested query look stored. They now keep an absent version absent.strictguard compared against the currentSlayerQueryversion instead of v4, wherestrictwas retired.Structure
slayer/core/direction.pyholds the onedirectionrule (required / forbidden / string-literal / normalise) and the synonym table thatOrderItemnow shares. The query binder and the importer formula validator both call it and raise identical errors.TransformArgumentError, which is still aValueError.sql/generator.py.Tests
test_rank_direction.py(values on SQLite and DuckDB, every position, errors, importer parity, emission on 5 dialects, naming) andtest_rank_direction_migration.py(gate, rewrite edge cases, YAML / SQLite load paths, REST / MCP fresh payloads). There is a new golden baseline for the rank family.integration/test_rank_direction_postgres.pyruns the NULL-input tests on a real Postgres. T-SQL and BigQuery are covered by emission checks only.dev1824,dev1832,dev1839,dev1859. Each diff is confined to the rank windows, apart from internal alias hashes that now includedirection.salesfixture's Void region):810/43→810/33.la-arch-checkandopenspec validate --strictall pass, as do the 217 SLayer comparison probes.Out of scope: save-time formula validation (DEV-2043), so a bare
ranksaved now fails when queried.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
rankanddense_ranknow require an explicit ascending or descending direction.ntileandpercent_rankalways rank in ascending order.rankordense_rankcalls retain descending behavior when loaded.Documentation