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Purge colon aggregation syntax from agent-facing surfaces - #465
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…-syntax-from-agent-facing-surfaces Reconcile the change's spec deltas with the archived DEV-2040/DEV-2041 edits (functional spelling kept, rank direction folded in; malformed nested-arglist examples fixed), add a queries/variables delta, and rewrite main's new variable-substitution docs and notebook to the functional spelling.
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806-806: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winReduce the cognitive complexity of
_validate_offline.SonarCloud reports complexity 16 against the allowed 15, and the check is failing. The method now holds three phases: column probing, dropped-column measure filtering, and the formula fixpoint. Extract the column probe loop into a helper such as
_probe_columnsand the dropped-column measure filter into_drop_measures_over_dropped_columns. Keep the fixpoint loop in_validate_offline.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Line 307: Update the scenario titles to describe the outcomes in their THEN
clauses, removing contradictory wording that implies retired behavior. In
openspec/changes/dev-2042-purge-colon-aggregation-syntax-from-agent-facing-surfaces/specs/queries/partitioned-aggregates/spec.md,
rename the title at 307-307 to say the windowed inner executes, at 549-549 to
say the collapsing constituent executes, and at 681-681 to say re-aggregation is
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- Line 18: Update the replacement expectation in task 1.11 so the negative
assertion for the former total:sum_orders syntax checks its functional form,
sum_orders(total), rather than the mismatched sum(total)_orders; preserve the
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Review comments at @slayer/cube/converter.py:
- Line 806: Reduce the cognitive complexity of `_validate_offline` by extracting
its column-probing loop into a helper such as `_probe_columns` and its
dropped-column measure filtering into `_drop_measures_over_dropped_columns`.
Keep the formula fixpoint loop in `_validate_offline` and preserve the existing
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Agents no longer see the legacy colon aggregation spelling (
amount:sum,*:count). Everything SLayer writes or shows now uses the functional spelling (sum(amount),count(*)). Colon input is still accepted and executes identically; result keys are unchanged.Linear: DEV-2042
What changes for users
Importers write functional formulas. dbt, Cube (including view facades) and OSI imports produce measures like
sum(amount),count(*),count(orders.*),sum(amount, window='30d'),percentile(latency, p=0.9)andsum(a) / nullif(count(*), 0). All of them go through one renderer,functional_agg_textincore/refs.py(the inverse ofsplit_agg_suffix), so the argument handling exists in one place only.recommend_root_modelreplies functionally, whatever spelling it was given:Remedies name the functional form. Fanning-column, cross-hop, unproven-arity, transform row-leaf and missing-parameter messages now say things like
Aggregate the target column (<aggregation>(orders.line_items.qty))and'percentile(measure, p=column)'. Thecreate_modeltool description says custom aggregations are used assum_sq(column), and the SQL facade'srow_countcollision warning no longer names*:count.The legacy validator stops nagging.
core/formula.pyused to warn "use colon syntax" on every functional formula, which would have fired on every import. That warning is removed, and the validator now acceptscount(<path>.*)(needed for view facades).Cube import validation
Measure filtering used to re-parse the formula text (
formula.split(":")), which would have stopped working silently once formulas became functional. Validation now carries each measure's underlying column explicitly:sum(amount, window='30d')). Before, the facade silently rebuilt it as a plain aggregation.Specs, architecture, comments
dev-2042-purge-colon-aggregation-syntax-from-agent-facing-surfaces: every spec example becomes functional.aggregations/functional-formkeeps a single requirement that accepts the legacy colon spelling as an exact equivalent, and adds one stating that SLayer emits only the functional spelling.Out of scope: the colon deprecation warning (DEV-1920), the SQL facade's internal colon
measure_formulas (DEV-1956), and retiringcore/formula.py(DEV-1831).Verification
Unit suite green; ruff, basedpyright (no new errors), the conventions gate,
la-arch-checkandopenspec validate --strictclean. Guard tests run every importer over its fixtures and check that each emitted formula has no colon suffix and parses withparse_expr. They also check that MCP tool descriptions, help content anddocs/contain no colon spelling.Summary by CodeRabbit
New Features
count(customers.*).Bug Fixes