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feat(data): date and date-time field types (#853, part 1) - #1325
This is the first of the four pull requests proposed in #853: Date and DateTime field types. It covers the types, project files, where clauses, edit.addField and the table, plus the places that must understand dates from the first day: the time slider, statistics, joins and Calculate Field. Formats come in parts 2–4.
It changes the data model and the project format. The design was put to the maintainers on #853 on 28 October; @deniial00 agreed it, and nobody has objected.
What
Types (crates/data/src/date.rs):
FieldType::Date is a calendar day, stored as an i32 count of days since 1970.
FieldType::DateTime is a moment: an i64 count of microseconds since 1970, plus an optional offset in minutes.
Both have matching Value variants, and Value stays 24 bytes (there's a test).
Values cover years 1 to 9999 and print as ISO 8601. Digits past microseconds are refused unless they're zeros, so nothing is cut.
A date-time with a zone is stored as that instant and keeps its offset. One without a zone stays the wall-clock time it says.
Nothing reads the clock, so the browser build is unaffected. data::time now takes its calendar arithmetic from the same integer functions.
Project files: values are saved as {"Date":"2026-03-05"} and {"DateTime":"2026-03-05T14:30:00+02:00"}. Projects without dates save exactly as before.
Where clauses:
issued >= '2026-01-01' compares dates, and so do BETWEEN and IN.
A date is its midnight, so ts = '2026-03-05' matches midnight only.
Offsets compare by instant. A date-time without a zone compares as if it were UTC.
A literal that isn't a full date ('2026', '') still compares as text, so saved queries keep working. LIKE '2026-%' works too.
edit.addField accepts date and datetime, and both appear in the Add Field dialog (as "Date" and "Date and time", translatable).
Attribute table: dates show as ISO text and sort as dates. They're edited as ISO text, and text that isn't a date is refused, as a mistyped number is.
Time slider: reads date fields directly. Its guessing is still used for text.
Summary Statistics and Pivot Table:
Count, Concatenate and Nulls work as for text. Unique counts instants, so the same moment at different offsets counts once.
MIN, MAX, FIRST, LAST, MODE and MINORITY give a date field of the input's type. MIN, MAX, MODE and MINORITY compare by instant.
Summary Statistics' single-field form gives COUNT, MIN and MAX for a date field.
Grouping on a date-time puts the same instant at different offsets in one group.
Join Field: a date key matches a text key holding its ISO text. Two date-time keys match by instant.
Calculate Field:
Assigning ISO text or another date field works.
A date into a date-time field becomes its midnight; a date-time into a date field becomes its day. When that drops a time or a zone, Calculate Field, Update and Paste say so per field: 'founded' holds dates, so 3 results kept only their day.
Plugins, Python and the assistant get ISO strings, and layer.fields reports Date and DateTime. The assistant's read_features orders date-times by instant. The plugin interface doesn't change.
Changes from the proposal
The expression language landed in the meantime. The proposal said date arithmetic would wait for it. Now arithmetic on a date field (issued + 30, -ts) is a parse error saying arithmetic on dates isn't supported yet, in Select By Attributes and in Calculate Field. Calculate Field's older a op b reader no longer takes these expressions over, also for a date field named like a literal (true + 1). A date reached any other way (coalesce(issued) + 1) gives null. Functions and arithmetic on dates are left for a follow-up that builds on this.
Merge keeps a Date field and a Text field of the same name as two fields, as it does for any two types. The proposal wrongly said they'd become one Text field.
Writers (Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, vector tiles) write dates as ISO text, as they do now when dates arrive as text. Exports to Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoParquet and FlatGeobuf, which have date columns, say so: out.gpkg: 2 date fields were written as text (ISO 8601), not as dates: 'issued', 'ts'. Native date columns come with parts 2 and 3.
Update writes a date-time into a date field as its day, as Calculate Field does.
Also fixed on the way: places that silently stored null
Calculate Field now reports how many rows got a null because the result isn't a value of the field's type. It says, for example, Calculate Field: 'founded' is null in 1 row, whose result isn't a Date value. This also covers text calculated into a number field, which used to become null without a word.
Update reports, per field, how many values became null because the field can't hold them (Update: 'n' is null in 1 update feature, whose value isn't a Long value).
Empty text and <null> are intended nulls everywhere: no notice from Calculate Field or edit.setValue, and no refusal from edit.addFeature.
Paste reports, per field, the pasted values the field can't hold (Paste: 'founded' is null in 2 features, whose value isn't a Date value), for number fields too, which it used to null silently. A date-time pasted into a date field keeps its day. Text pasted into a text field is kept as it is, <null> and empty text included.
Not in this PR
Formats. Part 2 is Shapefile and GeoPackage, plus a command to convert a text field to dates. Part 3 is GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf, FileGDB, spreadsheets and GPX. Part 4 is the databases.
Two types, stored as days, and as microseconds plus an optional offset.
Full ISO date literals compare as dates; anything else compares as text.
Arithmetic on dates is an error for now; date arithmetic and functions follow.
An invalid date in a project file is refused, not read as null.
Dates are written as ISO text until each format's own dates follow.
Projects holding dates needn't open in older versions. A release before this one refuses them with "this project may have been saved by a newer RustGIS: unknown variant Date … Update RustGIS to open it", so nothing is misread or lost, and the project format number stays 1 (saved files).
ROADMAP lists the follow-ups: format dates, date arithmetic and functions, a time zone for date-times saved without one, and recovering damaged project values.
Testing
New tests:
Dates and date-times: parsing, printing and ranges, offsets compared by instant, the 24-byte Value, and the project-file form round-tripping.
Where clauses: comparisons, BETWEEN, IN, midnight equality, partial literals compared as text, LIKE, and the arithmetic errors.
The time slider: date fields read as dates.
Join Field: a date key against ISO text, and the full key-type matrix.
End to end in the engine: add the fields, edit them, select, calculate (with the notice, and without it for clean input), refuse bad text and numbers in edit.setValue and edit.addFeature, offer the field to the slider, then save and reopen the project.
The export notice for dates written as text, and none for formats without date columns or layers without dates.
Update's conversion between dates and date-times, its notice for values a field can't hold, and an offset of i16::MIN refused.
A GeoPackage export read back with its dates as ISO text.
Paste into a date field, with and without values it can't hold; the assistant ordering date-times by instant.
Date-time join keys and UNIQUE, MODE and MINORITY by instant, and Summary Statistics' single-field form on a date field.
The Add Field dialog now lists Date and DateTime. The screenshot below, rendered headless with ui_shot, shows the attribute table with a Date field and a DateTime field, sorted descending by date (newest first). The founded >= '2010-01-01' selection is highlighted.
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Commit: 8a82d2fa3d76.
Walkthrough
This pull request adds Date and DateTime values and integrates them with expressions, editing, analysis, time handling, and data interchange. Several export formats serialize temporal fields as ISO 8601 text and report that behavior in export notices.
Changes: Temporal Field Support
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Summary
Temporal types and value semantics crates/data/src/date.rs, crates/data/src/value.rs, crates/data/src/lib.rs, crates/data/src/time.rs
Adds date and date-time types, parsing, display, serialization, temporal comparison, and integration with time operations.
Expressions compare temporal values and reject arithmetic on temporal dataset fields. Editing and paste operations validate temporal inputs and report invalid conversions or date-time-to-date conversions.
Analysis and value conversion crates/analysis/src/attribute_join.rs, crates/analysis/src/join.rs, crates/analysis/src/stats.rs, crates/analysis/src/tools.rs, crates/assistant/src/tools.rs, crates/assistant/src/tests.rs, docs/user-guide/analysis.md
Joins and statistics use temporal keys. Analysis conversion preserves temporal values where supported. Assistant sorting orders dates and date-times by temporal key.
Data interchange and export crates/data/src/io.rs, crates/data/src/source/*, crates/data/src/source/tests.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs, crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs, crates/tiles/src/vector_export.rs, crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs, ROADMAP.md
Source and export paths serialize temporal values as text. Supported export formats report temporal fields written as ISO 8601 text. The roadmap item reflects the remaining work sequence.
opengeos/RustGIS#853 — The issue describes date and date-time types, comparisons, project serialization, field creation, and time-slider support addressed by this pull request.
opengeos/RustGIS#1405 — The pull request adds temporal values to project serialization and tests project save and reopen.
Possibly related PRs
opengeos/RustGIS#1045 — Both pull requests change GeoPackage attribute writing; this pull request serializes temporal values as text.
opengeos/RustGIS#861 — This pull request implements the date and date-time fields described in the earlier roadmap update.
Suggested reviewers:giswqs, pawelkra, pick2510
Merge Risk: Moderate · up to 8a82d
Update can silently replace date values with false in a Boolean field and does not report numeric rounding. Invalid date defaults in templates are also dropped without an error. Fix these silent-loss paths before merging; the remaining concerns are minor.
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@opengeos/rustgis-maintainers Here is the first part of the date proposal in #853, as a draft. It changes the data model and the project format, so I'd like your feedback before taking it further. The pull request description lists three questions; the main ones are:
Two types and their stored form. Days since 1970 for a date; microseconds since 1970, plus an optional offset, for a date-time.
Where-clause literals. Full ISO dates compare as dates; anything else compares as text, so saved queries keep matching.
Date arithmetic. The expression language has landed since the proposal, so issued + 30 is now an error until date arithmetic and functions follow in a later pull request.
Formats (Shapefile and GeoPackage first) come in part 2, once the shape here is agreed. Thanks for taking a look!
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Bug (silent null, confidence: high). The new refusal in set_value only covers JSON strings. A number or boolean sent through coerce into a Date/DateTime field becomes Value::parse("20260305", Date), which is Null, with no error. So edit.setValue with "value": 20260305 still stores null silently, the exact case this PR set out to fix. The same applies to edit.addFeatureattributes (line 55).
Suggested fix: refuse any non-null raw value that coerces to null.
Suggested change
other => coerce(Value::from_json(&other), ty),
other => {
let v = coerce(Value::from_json(&other), ty);
if v.is_null() && !other.is_null(){
returnErr(format!("'{other}' isn't a {} value", ty.label()));
}
v
}
Please add a test with a numeric JSON value into a date field (both setValue and addFeature).
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Fixed in 960702a. edit.setValue and edit.addFeature now refuse any non-null value a date field can't hold, numbers included: 20260305 gives '20260305' isn't a Date value (and field 'founded': … from addFeature). Number fields keep the notice #1406 added rather than a refusal. The engine test covers both commands.
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Nit with a crash path (confidence: low-medium).offset_min.abs() overflows for i16::MIN: it panics in debug builds, and in release it wraps to a negative value that passes the <= MAX_OFFSET_MIN check. with_offset is pub, so a caller could reach this. No current caller passes that value, which is why confidence is low. Using unsigned_abs avoids the overflow:
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AGENTS.md: "Never silent" (confidence: medium). This writer demotes Date and DateTime fields to a character field, and the same change is in fgb.rs, gpkg.rs, parquet.rs and vector_export.rs. The values survive as ISO text, but the field type is lost and nothing is reported. The PR defers the notice to parts 2 and 3. The rule applies to writers that approximate data, so this should either report now (one notice per format with a count of date fields written as text) or be stated as an explicit exception. A clean-input test without a notice should be paired with a lossy-input test.
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Fixed in 960702a. Exports to Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoParquet and FlatGeobuf, the formats with date columns, now say which date fields went in as text: out.gpkg: 2 date fields were written as text (ISO 8601), not as dates: 'issued', 'ts'. This applies to Export Features, Export Table and the web app's download. GeoJSON, CSV, KML and vector tiles have no date type, so they say nothing. io::tests::dates_written_as_text_are_said covers both cases.
Reviewed the full diff (24 files) against the repository's AGENTS.md. Nothing was executed; findings come from reading the diff and surrounding code. No earlier review threads exist on this PR, so none were left alone.
Bugs
Silent null on non-string JSON (confidence: high, inline comment posted):edit.setValue refuses only JSON strings. A number or boolean into a Date/DateTime field goes through coerce and becomes null with no error (crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:145). edit.addFeatureattributes (edit.rs:55) has the same gap. This is the case the PR says it fixes.
Update tool drops date-times silently (confidence: medium-high, not posted inline):converted in crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:1804 sends a DateTime into a Date field through Value::parse on its text, which yields null with no notice. coerce in edit.rs maps the same case to its day, so the two paths disagree. The line is not part of this PR's diff, so I could not anchor a comment there. Suggested fix: add a (DateTime, Date) arm and report the nulls.
coalesce(issued) + 1 is silently null (confidence: low-medium, not posted):crates/data/src/query.rs:884. The PR documents this as intended, but in Select By Attributes it selects nothing with no error. Calculate Field does report it, so the gap is in selection only.
Security
None found.
Performance
None significant. Text-only comparisons take an early return in temporal_keys, so the common path is unchanged.
Quality
offset_min.abs() overflow (confidence: low-medium, inline comment posted):crates/data/src/date.rs:88. with_offset is pub, and i16::MIN.abs() panics in debug builds and wraps in release. No current caller passes that value. Suggest unsigned_abs.
Left for the release quality pass: the cmp_keys doc comment has an uneven line wrap (stats.rs ~112–117), and the engine date test removes its temp directory only on success.
AGENTS.md
Writers demote dates to text without a notice (confidence: medium, inline comment posted):io.rs:2167, and the same change in fgb.rs, gpkg.rs, parquet.rs and vector_export.rs. The values survive as ISO text, but the field type is lost and nothing is reported. The PR defers the notice to parts 2 and 3. AGENTS.md requires a notice for writers that approximate data, so this should report now or be stated as an explicit exception.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base ccf06b7 to PR head 94dbeb0).
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Heads-up: I'm opening a small PR (#1406) that changes coerce in crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs. A number goes into a number field as it is, instead of through its six-place text, so 1 / 3 into a Double field keeps every digit. Calculate Field and calculation rules also say how many results lost their fraction in an Integer field. It doesn't touch the null-result notice or the date handling here, so merging the two should only take a few lines in coerce. Happy to rebase onto this one if it lands first.
Follow-up on the review summary, in 960702a (merged with current main):
Update drops date-times: fixed. Update's conversion writes a date-time into a date field as its day, as Calculate Field does. Tested in converted_keeps_fitting_values_and_converts_the_rest.
coalesce(issued) + 1 is null in Select By Attributes: kept as documented. @deniial00 agreed on [Feature]: A date and date-time field type #853 that one consistent error for unsupported expressions, including ones reached indirectly, belongs to a later expression-engine change. It's now in ROADMAP with the other date follow-ups.
cmp_keys doc wrap and the test's temp directory: left for the release quality pass.
@PawelKra Thanks for the heads-up. #1406 landed first, and this branch now builds on it: coerce keeps your exact number conversion, with one added case in convert, a date-time into a date field as its day. Calculate Field's new count of results its field can't hold leaves out the ones your notices already report, so nothing is said twice. Text such as n/a calculated into a Long field is now reported too, so calculate_field_keeps_decimals_and_says_what_whole_numbers_cut expects that notice.
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Bug, false notice (confidence: medium). A result of empty text, or of <null>, is counted as unread here, because coerce_cut turns it into Null with Cut::None and was_null is false for Text(""). numeric_loss deliberately treats exactly that text as an intentional null, with no notice. So Calculate Field copying an empty text field into a number field now reports "is null in 1 row, whose result isn't a Long value", while edit.setValue with "" stays quiet. Treat the same empty and <null> text as intentional nulls here, using the same test as numeric_loss (line 308).
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Fixed in 537a8b9. Calculate Field now uses the same test as numeric_loss, through one shared helper (explicit_null): empty text and <null> are intended nulls and give no notice. The engine test calculates '' into a Long field and expects no notice.
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Inconsistency (confidence: medium). This check refuses "<null>" for a date field, because only empty text is exempt. set_value (line 343) and numeric_loss both treat <null> as an explicit null, so edit.addFeature with "founded": "<null>" fails where edit.setValue with the same text succeeds. Exempt <null> here too, for example with a shared helper that both call.
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Fixed in 537a8b9. edit.addFeature now accepts <null> as well as empty text as a null for a date field, through the same explicit_null helper as setValue and Calculate Field. The engine test adds a feature with "<null>".
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Quality (confidence: high). The two-line doc comment above is for shapefile_field_name_changes_are_said, but the new dates_written_as_text_are_said test was inserted between it and that test, so the comment now describes the wrong test. Move the new test above the doc comment, or move the comment down to the test it describes.
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Bug, silent wrong result (confidence: high). The single-field form of Summary Statistics (field with no statistics) passes field_only as as_numbers, at the call sites in summary_statistics (statistic_fields(ds, &requests, field_only, …) at 4560, count_texts at 4573, statistic_values at 4577). stats::column(..., true) then takes the numeric branch, and Value::as_f64() is None for Date/DateTime. Every date becomes a silent null: COUNT gives 0, and MIN, MAX and MEAN come out null. The output is also typed Double because output_type sees as_numbers. The explicit statistics path is fine, but the PR says MIN and MAX give a date of the input's type, which this path does not do.
Suggested fix at the call site, so the field-only form reads a date field as dates:
Then use as_numbers in place of field_only in the three calls. Please add a test: the field-only call on a Date field gives COUNT equal to the rows read and MIN and MAX as dates.
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Fixed in 537a8b9. The single-field form on a date field now gives COUNT, MIN and MAX, with MIN and MAX as dates, instead of reading the dates as numbers. summary_statistics_keeps_the_field_only_call has a date-field case.
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Bug, silent null (confidence: high). Update copies each value through converted. Text that isn't a date, or a number written into a date field, falls through to Value::parse and becomes Null (see the fallthrough arms below). Nothing is reported: update_on (call site at 2139) returns only the "kept/added" message at 2143. This is the silent-null case the PR says it fixed for Calculate Field and edit.setValue, and the AGENTS "Never silent" rule covers it. Count the values that were non-null and became null, per field, and push one message through ToolResult::messages, for example Update: 'founded' is null for 3 values that aren't Date values. Add a test with clean input (no message) and one lossy input (message).
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Fixed in 537a8b9. Update counts the non-null values per field that its target field can't hold and reports one message for each such field, for example Update: 'n' is null in 1 update feature, whose value isn't a Long value. Empty text doesn't count. The conversion test covers the notice, and update_replaces_the_covered_part_with_the_update_polygons checks that values that fit give none.
Reviewed the whole PR diff against the staged AGENTS.md and the prior threads. Three bugs and a few quality points, with inline comments on the relevant lines. The prior threads are answered and fixed in the current code, so I didn't re-raise them.
Bugs
Summary Statistics, single-field form, turns dates into silent nulls (crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:4595). field_only is passed as as_numbers, so date values are read as numbers and dropped. COUNT gives 0 and MIN/MAX/MEAN come out null with no notice. The PR says MIN/MAX give a date. Confidence: high.
Update silently nulls values that aren't dates (crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2063, call site 2139). converted falls through to Value::parse, and update_on reports nothing, which breaks the "Never silent" rule. Confidence: high.
Calculate Field reports empty or <null> text as a lost value (crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:516). numeric_loss treats that text as an intentional null, but this notice doesn't, so copying an empty text field into a number field produces a notice. Confidence: medium.
Security
None found.
Performance
Where clauses on dates re-parse the text literal on every row, through temporal_keys in value.rs and eq in query.rs. Likely negligible, but a literal could be parsed once. Confidence: low.
Quality
A misplaced doc comment in crates/data/src/io.rs:4063: the new test was inserted between the existing doc comment and the test it describes. Confidence: high.
crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:66 refuses "<null>" for a date field in addFeature, while setValue and numeric_loss accept it as an explicit null. Confidence: medium.
Doc comments reflowed unevenly: edit.rs:126 has a first line of about 150 characters, stats.rscmp_keys has a ragged paragraph, and docs/user-guide/analysis.md has one overlong paragraph line. Confidence: high, nit.
Value's derived PartialEq disagrees with partial_cmp for the same instant with different offsets, and UNIQUE counts by text while grouping merges by instant. Confidence: low.
AGENTS.md
"Never silent" is broken by the Update path above. The Calculate Field notice follows the rule, but its empty-text case is inconsistent with numeric_loss.
Prior threads (export notice in io.rs, numeric refusal in edit.setValue, unsigned_abs in date.rs) are all addressed in the current code. I left 3 earlier concerns alone.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 41315de to PR head 960702a).
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Use an isolated temporary directory with automatic cleanup.
The test builds a fixed path from std::process::id() under std::env::temp_dir(). It removes the directory only on the last line. If any assertion between lines 482 and 492 panics, the directory stays behind. A later process that reuses the same PID will then see old state, and create_dir_all will not fail. Use a unique directory with a drop guard, for example tempfile::tempdir(). If the repository avoids that dependency, add a small guard struct whose Drop removes the directory.
The PR comments say a test temporary-directory issue was deferred to a release quality pass. The leak and reuse risk is still present in this change.
Proposed fix
- let dir = std::env::temp_dir().join(format!("rustgis-dates-{}", std::process::id()));- std::fs::create_dir_all(&dir).unwrap();- let path = dir.join("dates.rgis");+ let tmp = tempfile::tempdir().unwrap();+ let path = tmp.path().join("dates.rgis");
@@
- std::fs::remove_dir_all(&dir).ok();
tempfile is not in the crates/engine dev-dependencies list I was given. Add it as a workspace dev-dependency, or use a drop-guard struct instead.
Based on learnings: "Flag Rust tests that create workspaces or filesystem state, unless it uses an accepted alternative: isolated temporary directories with cleanup".
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Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/attribute_join.rs:
- Line 56: Update join-key construction in the attribute join logic to compare
DateTime values by instant using the existing temporal sort key for
DateTime-to-DateTime joins, while preserving ISO-text comparison for
DateTime-to-Text joins; keep Date values’ existing behavior unchanged.
Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/stats.rs:
- Line 516: Update the DateTime handling in the statistics match arm for
`Stat::Mode` and `Stat::Minority` to group and count values by temporal instant
rather than display string, returning an original DateTime value for the
selected result. Apply the same temporal-key semantics to `Stat::Unique` so
equivalent instants at different offsets count as one, consistent with
`group_rows`.
Review comments at @crates/data/src/source/gpkg.rs:
- Around line 978-979: Update sql_value to serialize Date and DateTime values,
as well as Text values in temporal fields, as ISO 8601 SQL text before the
fallthrough conversion; preserve existing handling for other field types. Add an
export test that reads back a Date column and verifies the stored value is not
NULL.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:
- Around line 341-352: Update the temporal-value validation shared by
add_feature and set_value so intentional null text, including “<null>” and
blank text, is accepted as null while other non-null inputs that coerce to null
for a temporal field are rejected. Reuse one helper in both commands and
preserve their existing handling of actual null values and valid temporal
inputs.
Review comments at @crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs:
- Line 477: Translate the displayed Date and DateTime labels in the type choices
and selected value, while preserving the canonical strings passed to
edit.addField; locate the type-label handling in the loop over Long, Double,
Text, Boolean, Date, and DateTime.
Review comments at @docs/user-guide/analysis.md:
- Line 705: Update the date-time key example in the exact-text join
documentation to show a full ISO 8601 date-time value, including its time
component, so readers can construct a matching text key. Keep the existing
date-only example for Date keys.
Review comments at @docs/user-guide/expressions.md:
- Line 108: Update the arithmetic-on-date documentation to cover indirect
operands as well as direct date-field operands. State that expressions such as a
coalesced date plus a number may be accepted and return null, so Calculate Field
can replace destination values without a notice.
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ROADMAP.md
crates/analysis/src/attribute_join.rs
crates/analysis/src/join.rs
crates/analysis/src/stats.rs
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
crates/assistant/src/tools.rs
crates/data/src/date.rs
crates/data/src/io.rs
crates/data/src/lib.rs
crates/data/src/query.rs
crates/data/src/query/tests.rs
crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs
crates/data/src/source/gpkg.rs
crates/data/src/source/mysql.rs
crates/data/src/source/parquet.rs
crates/data/src/source/postgis.rs
crates/data/src/source/sqlserver.rs
crates/data/src/time.rs
crates/data/src/value.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs
crates/engine/src/tests.rs
crates/tiles/src/vector_export.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/table.rs
docs/user-guide/analysis.md
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Bugs (Summary Statistics on dates, Update's silent nulls, Calculate Field and empty text): fixed, see the inline replies.
Misplaced doc comment and <null> in addFeature: fixed.
UNIQUE by text while grouping merges by instant: fixed, so UNIQUE, MODE and MINORITY now count instants.
Re-parsing a date literal for every row, PartialEq against partial_cmp across offsets, and the doc comment reflow nits: left for the release quality pass.
On the outside-diff point (the engine test's temporary folder): fixed in 537a8b9. The test now uses a drop guard with a unique name, so the folder is removed even when an assertion fails, without adding tempfile. The seven inline points have their own replies.
Add FieldType::Date (days since 1970) and FieldType::DateTime
(microseconds since 1970 with an optional offset), with matching Value
variants, ISO 8601 text and project-file form. Where clauses compare
dates with ISO literals; edit.addField, the Add Field dialog and the
table accept them; the time slider, Summary Statistics, Pivot Table,
Join Field, Calculate Field and Update understand them. Arithmetic on a
date field is an error until the expression language has date
arithmetic.
Calculate Field reports rows whose result its field can't hold, and
edit.setValue and edit.addFeature refuse a value a date field can't
hold instead of storing null. Exports to Shapefile, GeoPackage,
GeoParquet and FlatGeobuf say which date fields were written as ISO
8601 text. ROADMAP lists the follow-ups agreed on opengeos#853.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
… no silent nulls
- GeoPackage export writes date and date-time values as ISO 8601 text
instead of NULL.
- Date-time join keys match by instant; UNIQUE, MODE and MINORITY count
the same instant once.
- Summary Statistics on a single date field gives COUNT, MIN and MAX as
dates instead of nulls.
- Update says how many values per field became null because the field
couldn't hold them.
- Empty or <null> text is an explicit null for Calculate Field and
addFeature, through one shared helper.
- Add Field shows translatable type labels; doc clarifications; the
engine test's temporary folder is always removed.
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Bug, silent null on paste (confidence: high).Value::parse reads a date only from exactly YYYY-MM-DD, so pasting a column into a Date field loses data with no notice. crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard.rs::coerce (not changed by this PR) calls Attr::parse(&other.to_string(), ty) for anything that isn't text. Two cases end as null:
A DateTime value copied into a Date field. "2026-03-05T14:30:00+02:00" doesn't parse as a date, so every value becomes null. Calculate Field, Update and convert map this to the day, so paste is inconsistent with them.
GeoJSON text such as "2026-03-05T14:30:00Z" or "March 5" pasted into a Date field. Paste reports only the feature count, so the loss is silent.
Suggested fix: in paste, send DateTime into Date through DateTime::date(), and count values that are non-null in the source but null after conversion. Add one notice per field with a count, plus a test for clean input (no notice) and lossy input (notice).
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Confirmed, and fixed in d5afe1d. Paste now writes a date-time into a date field as its day, as Calculate Field and Update do. It also counts, per field, the pasted values that aren't null but that the field can't hold, and reports them: Paste: 'founded' is null in 2 features, whose value isn't a Date value. Empty text and <null> are no loss and give no notice. The count covers number fields too, which paste used to null silently. Covered by clipboard::tests::a_moment_pasted_into_a_date_field_keeps_its_day and, both ways, by date_fields_work_from_adding_to_saving.
// Each type as the command names it, and as the interface shows it.
let types =
[("Long",tl!("Long")),("Double",tl!("Double")),("Text",tl!("Text")),("Boolean",tl!("Boolean")),("Date",tl!("Date")),("DateTime",tl!("Date and time"))];
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Formatting (confidence: high).rustfmt.toml sets max_width = 140, and lines 478 and 479 are longer. cargo fmt --check will fail, so cargo xtask ci fails. Run cargo fmt to wrap the array and the shown line.
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cargo fmt --all --check passes on this branch, and CI's lint job (pre-commit, cargo fmt included) passed on it. rustfmt leaves lines it can't wrap inside the egui closures in this file, and dialogs.rs has dozens of lines over 140 characters for that reason, so these two don't fail the check. No change.
Pasting a DateTime column into a Date field silently nulls every value, because clipboard.rs::coerce goes through Value::parse, which doesn't map DateTime to its day. Pasted GeoJSON text that isn't exactly YYYY-MM-DD (for example 2026-03-05T14:30:00Z) also becomes null with no notice. Confidence: high. Inline comment on crates/data/src/value.rs:182. The fix belongs in clipboard.rs, which this PR doesn't touch.
Read paths and the other prior concerns are addressed in the diff (see the count below). I found no new crash path: non-test code has no unwrap, expect or indexing additions.
Security
None found in the changed code.
Performance
A where clause such as issued >= '2026-01-01' re-parses the literal for every row, through Value::temporal_keys. The cost is small, but it could be pre-parsed once. Confidence: medium, low severity.
Quality
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs:478-479 exceed max_width = 140, so cargo fmt --check and cargo xtask ci fail. Confidence: high. Inline comment posted.
The doc comment on crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:126 is about 150 characters. Nit, for the release quality pass.
Value's PartialOrd treats two date-times with the same instant and different offsets as equal, while derived PartialEq says they differ. Nit, confidence: medium.
docs/user-guide/analysis.md has an overlong line in the Summary Statistics paragraph. Nit, for the release quality pass.
AGENTS.md
The PR makes no version bump for the project format. Older RustGIS refuses the file through the serde unknown-variant error, which docs/maintaining.md allows because nothing is lost or misread. I didn't verify the release mapping beyond crates/engine/src/project.rs:1277 and crates/engine/tests/project_save.rs:97.
The format writers (Shapefile, GeoPackage, GeoParquet, FlatGeobuf) and the export notices follow the "Never silent" rule. The clipboard path above does not.
Earlier concerns: I left 14 earlier threads alone. Each one is addressed in the diff: the Update silent null, the field-only Summary Statistics bug, the GeoPackage NULL writes, the instant join and instant grouping, the <null> handling in addFeature, the dialog translations, the i16::MIN offset, the docs, and the misplaced doc comment in io.rs. I did not re-post any of them.
Change size
Compared with main (merge base 780e071 to PR head 537a8b9).
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Minor · Sort DateTime results by instant before applying the limit. · tools.rs:807-809
crates/assistant/src/tools.rs:807-809 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Sort DateTime results by instant before applying the limit.
DateTime values have no numeric conversion, so order_by sorts their displayed text. For example, descending order puts 2026-03-05T00:30:00+02:00 before 2026-03-04T23:00:00Z, although the latter is later. With limit: 1, the assistant receives the wrong latest record.
Add an exact temporal-key comparison while keeping null values last.
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Review comment at @crates/assistant/src/tools.rs around lines 807 - 809:
Update the sort-key logic around `v.as_f64()` to recognize DateTime values and compare their exact instants before applying the limit, rather than sorting their displayed text. Preserve null values as last and retain the existing ordering behavior for other value types.
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Review comments at @crates/data/src/value.rs:
- Around line 213-215: Update temporal_keys and the comparison path using its
result so mixed temporal values follow a transitive ordering consistent with
text-to-text comparisons. Preserve the existing behavior for text-only
comparisons; do not rely on instant-based mixed comparisons if they can still
create a comparison cycle.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:
- Around line 575-580: Check for temporal operands before either branch in the
calculation parsing flow returns Calculation::Calc, including the earlier
calculator path in Calculation::parse. Reuse the existing guard based on c.a and
c.b and the temporal field-type check so expressions such as “true + 1” are
rejected when true resolves to a Date field.
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Review comments at @crates/assistant/src/tools.rs:
- Around line 807-809: Update the sort-key logic around `v.as_f64()` to
recognize DateTime values and compare their exact instants before applying the
limit, rather than sorting their displayed text. Preserve null values as last
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ROADMAP.md
crates/analysis/src/attribute_join.rs
crates/analysis/src/join.rs
crates/analysis/src/stats.rs
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs
crates/assistant/src/tools.rs
crates/data/src/date.rs
crates/data/src/io.rs
crates/data/src/lib.rs
crates/data/src/query.rs
crates/data/src/query/tests.rs
crates/data/src/source/fgb.rs
crates/data/src/source/gpkg.rs
crates/data/src/source/mysql.rs
crates/data/src/source/parquet.rs
crates/data/src/source/postgis.rs
crates/data/src/source/sqlserver.rs
crates/data/src/source/tests.rs
crates/data/src/time.rs
crates/data/src/value.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/imagery.rs
crates/engine/src/cmd/share.rs
crates/engine/src/tests.rs
crates/tiles/src/vector_export.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/dialogs.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/lib.rs
crates/ui-egui/src/table.rs
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Heavy lift
Make mixed temporal ordering transitive.
Let A be Date(2026-03-05), B be text 2026-03-05T01:30:00+02:00, and C be text 2026-03-04T23:30:00-01:00. Mixed pairs compare by instant, but B and C compare as text. The result is B < A < C < B. A sort containing these values has no consistent order. Use a consistent comparison rule for mixed-value sorting while preserving the intended text-only behavior.
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Update temporal_keys and the comparison path using its result so mixed temporal values follow a transitive ordering consistent with text-to-text comparisons. Preserve the existing behavior for text-only comparisons; do not rely on instant-based mixed comparisons if they can still create a comparison cycle.
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The cycle is real for those three values, but a sort can't meet them. A sort orders one field's values, and a date field holds dates while a text field holds text, so dates and text are never sorted together. Date against text is compared only in a where clause against a literal (issued >= '2026-01-01'), which goes through temporal_keys in query.rs, not a sort. partial_cmp already mixes numbers and numeric text in the same way on main (10 < '10a' < '9' < 10). Making mixed types totally ordered would mean ranking types against each other, for every caller, which is a change of its own rather than part of adding dates. No change here.
#!/bin/bashecho'--- Dataset structure and deserialization ---'
ast-grep outline crates/data/src/lib.rs --items all --match 'Dataset|Feature|valid|read|load'2>/dev/null | head -100 ||true
cat -n crates/data/src/lib.rs | sed -n '170,215p;300,340p;600,616p'echo'--- Project loading and field validation references ---'
rg -n -C 3 --glob '*.rs''serde_json::from_(str|slice|reader)|from_json|validate.*(field|attr|dataset)|(?:field|attr|dataset).*validat|FieldType::Date(Time)?' crates/engine/src/cmd crates/data/src | head -300
Length of output: 33165
@Mavrick-F Thanks for the explanation. I confirmed that the table sort compares values from one field, and I understand your decision to leave broader mixed-type ordering out of this PR.
My check of field homogeneity was inconclusive: Dataset deserialization does not itself validate attribute variants against field types. If you want that checked further, please ask me to retry.
Would you like a follow-up issue for mixed-type ordering?
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Timestamp: 2026-11-01T17:51:35.449Z
Learning: Within repository "opengeos/RustGIS": When reviewing pull requests in opengeos/RustGIS, treat automated review findings as advisory rather than mandatory merge requirements. Prioritize real bugs. If a contributor gives a reasoned explanation for declining a minor or low-value suggestion, acknowledge that decision without insisting on the change. Leave merge requirements to the maintainers.
…t hold
- A date-time pasted into a date field becomes its day, as Calculate
Field and Update do. Paste counts, per field, the values that aren't
null but that the field can't hold, and reports them; empty text and
<null> are no loss. This also covers number fields, which paste
nulled silently.
- Calculate Field refuses arithmetic on a date field named like a
literal (`true + 1`) on the earlier calculator's path too.
- The assistant's read_features orders dates and date-times by instant,
not by their text.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Paste into a date field: fixed. A date-time pasted into a date field keeps its day, and values a field can't hold are reported per field. See the inline reply.
dialogs.rs line width:cargo fmt --check and CI's lint pass. See the inline reply.
Re-parsing a date literal for every row, PartialOrd against PartialEq across offsets, the edit.rs:126 doc comment and the analysis.md line: left for the release quality pass, as in the previous round.
On the outside-diff point (read_features sorting date-times by text): confirmed and fixed in d5afe1d. The sort key now orders dates and date-times by instant, alongside numbers and before text, and empty values stay last, so it's still a total order. The assistant test sorts two date-times whose text order and instant order disagree, with limit: 1. The two inline points have their own replies.
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AGENTS.md "Never silent" (confidence: medium-high). A date-time into a date field is t.date() with Cut::None, so the time of day and the zone are dropped for every such value and nothing is reported. The same silent drop happens in Update (crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2332) and Paste (crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard.rs:117). The earlier thread only asked about the null case, so this is new. The rule covers a command that drops or truncates data and says how much and where. Please add one notice per field with a count, for example Calculate Field: 'seen' kept the day of 3 date-times and dropped their time, and add a test for the lossy case next to the clean one.
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Fixed in 8a82d2f. Converting a date-time into a date field is now counted whenever it drops something: a time of day, or a zone. A midnight without a zone loses nothing and isn't counted. Calculate Field reports it through a new kind in its per-kind cut notices, and Update and Paste give one notice per field: Calculate Field: 'founded' holds dates, so 1 result kept only its day, Update: 'd' holds dates, so 1 update feature kept only its day, Paste: 'seen' holds dates, so 1 feature kept only its day. Tests cover the lossy case for all three, and a clean midnight for Update.
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Bug, false notice (confidence: medium-high). Only empty text is exempt here. Value::parse turns <null> into Null (crates/data/src/value.rs:180), so Update into a number or date field reports is null in … whose value isn't a … value for text that asks for null. edit.setValue, edit.addFeature and Calculate Field all treat <null> as intended (explicit_null in edit.rs). The analysis crate can't reach that helper, so mirror its test here:
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Fixed in 8a82d2f, without copying the check. The helper moved into the data crate as Value::asks_null, and Update, Calculate Field, edit.setValue, edit.addFeature and Paste all use it. update_says_what_a_date_field_keeps_of_a_date_time sends <null> into a Long field and expects no notice.
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AGENTS.md "Never silent" (confidence: medium-low). Digits past the sixth fraction digit are dropped without a word, as the doc comment on parse says. Callers that take text from elsewhere, such as Paste of GeoJSON text, Calculate Field's text results and edit.setValue, will accept 2026-03-05T14:30:00.123456789Z and store a different value with no notice. Either refuse input with more than six digits, so the caller's "isn't a DateTime value" error reports it, or have the caller count the cut. Add a test for both the clean and the cut case.
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Fixed in 8a82d2f. DateTime::parse now refuses non-zero digits past the sixth, so nothing is cut. The caller's existing "isn't a DateTime value" refusal or null notice reports such text, and .123456000 still reads. Covered by digits_past_microseconds_are_refused_unless_zeros.
I checked the diff against the repository rules, the prior review threads, and the surrounding code. I found three new issues, all in the "Never silent" area. I posted each as an inline comment. Everything else I looked at is either already covered by a prior thread or held up on reading.
Bugs
Update treats <null> text as a lost value, so it raises a false notice.tools.rs:2419, confidence medium-high. Only empty text is exempt, but Value::parse turns <null> into null, so Update reports a value it should accept silently. The fix is in the inline suggestion.
Quality
Dates lose their time of day with no notice.edit.rs:221, confidence medium-high. Calculate Field, Update (tools.rs:2332) and Paste (clipboard.rs:117) all turn a date-time into its day with no report. This is new: the prior thread only raised the null case.
Sub-microsecond digits are cut silently.date.rs:140, confidence medium-low. Text with more than six fraction digits is truncated without a word.
Observations (not posted)
Date and date-time join keys are incompatible.attribute_join.rskey_comparison rejects a Date key against a DateTime key, but a where clause treats ts = '2026-03-05' as a match at midnight. This is an explicit error rather than a silent loss, so I left it as a question for the author. Confidence low.
Value equality and ordering disagree.partial_cmp returns Equal for the same instant at different offsets, but the derived PartialEq says they differ. Nothing in this diff relies on it, and the prior thread's answer covers the ordering side. Confidence low.
Nits, for the release quality pass. The new sentence on edit.rs:123 pushes the doc line past 140 characters. The inline <null> check in set_value duplicates explicit_null. The cmp_key doc comment in stats.rs is reflowed awkwardly.
Already raised
I left 17 prior concerns alone: they were already answered, or the code they point at hasn't changed. The saved-file rule in docs/maintaining.md is met by the refusal the PR describes, so I did not raise a format-version bump.
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crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard.rs-170-171: 1
170-171: Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
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Report temporal values that become false in Boolean fields.
When a Date or DateTime is pasted into a matching Boolean field, coerce passes its text to Value::parse. That parser returns false for any unrecognized Boolean text, so out.is_null() is false and no loss is reported. Reject this conversion or report the loss. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comments at @crates/data/src/io.rs:
- Around line 2848-2849: Update the temporal-field handling in the
`FieldType::Text | FieldType::Date | FieldType::DateTime` branch and
`shapefile_values_notes` so incompatible text values longer than 254 bytes are
either rejected before truncation or included in truncation notes. Preserve the
existing behavior for valid temporal values and ensure no value is silently
truncated without being reported.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard.rs:
- Line 239: Update the DateTime test value assigned to `t` so its local
date-time crosses the UTC day boundary, using `00:30+02:00`; retain the
surrounding date assertion so it verifies the displayed day rather than the UTC
day.
- Line 117: Update the Date-destination conversion in the paste handling match
so date-time values represented as Attr::Text are parsed and reduced to their
displayed day before the null fallback. Preserve the existing Attr::DateTime(t)
conversion and other destination behavior.
- Line 171: Update the clipboard paste logic around coerce and explicit_null so
Text-to-Text values, including the literal “<null>” and empty strings, are
preserved before applying the interactive null convention; retain the existing
null handling for other value types.
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… sub-microseconds
- Calculate Field, Update and Paste report, per field, the date-times
whose time of day or zone a date field dropped.
- Value::asks_null replaces the engine-only helper, so Update treats
<null> text as null asked for, as the edit commands do.
- DateTime::parse refuses non-zero digits past microseconds instead of
cutting them.
- A Shapefile export says when it cuts text held in a date field to 254
bytes, as it does for a text field.
- Text pasted into a text field is kept as it is, <null> and empty text
included.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Update and <null>, dates losing their time of day and digits past microseconds: all fixed. See the inline replies.
Date against date-time join keys: refused with an error rather than matched, as you note. Matching a day against a moment needs a rule (midnight, or any time that day), and that choice belongs with date functions, not this PR. No change.
PartialEq against partial_cmp, the duplicate <null> check (now gone, since everything uses Value::asks_null), and the doc-comment nits: the first and the nits are left for the release quality pass.
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Never silent: Calculate Field can overwrite values with null without a notice (confidence: medium-high). This is raised earlier on expressions.md, and the reply documented the limitation. Documentation doesn't meet the AGENTS rule that a command which drops data says what, how much and where. Here is the path: coalesce(issued) + 1 reaches arith, which returns Value::Null. asks_null() is true for Null, so unread stays 0 and no notice is sent, while the destination values are replaced.
Suggested direction: the parser already refuses direct date arithmetic, so refuse it when the parsed tree has arithmetic on a temporal-typed sub-expression, or count the rows whose result is null while the expression reads a date field and notify once. Add a test with an indirect date expression that expects the notice, and keep the clean-null test passing.
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Test clarity (confidence: high, quality). This assertion relies on the dt helper's sentinel i64::MIN, which it returns when parsing fails. It passes, but it doesn't say what it means. Assert the refusal directly, for example assert!(DateTime::parse("0001-01-01T00:30:00+01:00").is_none(), "before year 1 in UTC").
Calculate Field can overwrite existing values with null without a notice. coalesce(issued) + 1 evaluates to null, and asks_null() treats null as intended, so the per-row count never fires. The docs-only reply does not meet the "never silent" rule. Posted inline on crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:523. Confidence: medium-high.
Latent silent skip: crates/tiles/src/embeddings.rs:286 reads a year only from Int and Text, so a Date or DateTime value is dropped without a notice. Not reachable yet, because no reader in this PR produces dates. Confidence: medium-low. The file is not in the PR diff, so I could not post it inline.
Security
None found.
Performance
Value::temporal_keys parses a text literal on every row comparison, so issued >= '2026-01-01' re-parses its literal per row. The cost is small. Pre-parsing literals at compile time would remove it. Confidence: low.
Quality
Test clarity: crates/data/src/date.rs:356 relies on the dt helper's i64::MIN sentinel. Posted inline. Confidence: high.
Test coverage: crates/analysis/src/parameters.rs:70 lists only Integer, Double, Text and Boolean, so the offered-equals-accepted check skips the new types. Adding Date and DateTime is a quick win. Confidence: medium. The file is not in the PR diff, so I could not post it inline.
Nits, grouped:
crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:543 uses &format! inside an if-else. It compiles on current Rust but reads oddly; .to_string() on the first branch is clearer.
crates/engine/src/cmd/clipboard.rspaste: the closure parameter unfit shadows the outer vector of the same name.
summary_statistics sets as_numbers inside a branch expression; a separate let temporal read up front would be clearer.
Several doc-comment lines in edit.rs run past 140 columns, including the coerce doc and the Cuts::notices doc.
AGENTS.md
Calculate Field re-raise: the earlier docs-only reply does not satisfy "never silent". Covered in the bugs item.
Already raised and answered, so I left them alone: the earlier threads on Shapefile/GeoPackage/vector-tile writers, the Update and Paste silent nulls, the Calculate Field temporal-cut notice, the time-of-day loss, the DateTime join and statistics instant comparisons, the i16::MIN offset, the digit cut, <null> handling in add_feature, the Add Field labels, the mixed-type ordering, and the fmt-width dispute. That is 17 earlier concerns left alone.
Change size
Compared: the whole PR against main (merge base 2c75bda to PR head 8a82d2f).
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Major · Do not silently convert temporal values to false. · tools.rs:2351
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:2351 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Do not silently convert temporal values to false.
When an update Date or DateTime field matches an input Boolean field, this fallback parses its ISO text as Boolean. Value::parse returns false, so the output loses the temporal value and the null-conversion notice does not run. Reject this conversion or report the loss.
Based on learnings: “Existing silent losses are bugs” and losses must be reported through ToolResult::messages.
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Update the fallback conversion in the value-matching logic to prevent Date or DateTime values from being silently parsed as Boolean; reject the incompatible conversion or report the loss through ToolResult::messages, preserving the temporal value or making the loss explicit.
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Major · Reject invalid temporal template defaults · design.rs:1887-1891
crates/engine/src/cmd/design.rs:1887-1891 Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Reject invalid temporal template defaults
If a Date or DateTime default contains invalid text, edit.template stores null without an error. Later, edit.addFeature accepts that null and creates features without the intended default. Reject the value before replacing the template.
Suggested fix
- defaults.push((l.dataset.fields.get(fi).map(|f| f.name.clone()).unwrap_or_default(), super::edit::coerce(value, ty)));+ let coerced = super::edit::coerce(value.clone(), ty);+ if ty.is_temporal() && coerced.is_null() && !value.asks_null() {+ return Err(format!("field '{k}': '{value}' isn't a {} value", ty.label()));+ }+ defaults.push((l.dataset.fields.get(fi).map(|f| f.name.clone()).unwrap_or_default(), coerced));
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/design.rs around lines 1887 - 1891:
Update the default-value validation in the edit.template flow to reject Date or DateTime values that coerce to null unless the input explicitly asks for null. Return an error before replacing the template, and preserve the existing behavior for valid temporal defaults and explicitly null values.
Minor · Offer date fields in Statistics Field. · tools.rs:580
crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:580 Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Offer date fields in Statistics Field.
The Tools pane excludes Date and DateTime fields, so users cannot select them for the new field-only statistics. Allow numeric and temporal fields for this parameter without widening other NumericField selectors.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs at line 580:
Update the Statistics Field parameter at the K::NumericField selector so it accepts both numeric and Date/DateTime fields. Scope the change to this parameter and preserve the existing numeric-only behavior of other NumericField selectors.
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Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:
- Line 2420: Update the conversion-loss accounting in the Update flow around `*n
+= usize::from(...)` to detect numeric precision loss and truncation in addition
to null conversions. Ensure detected losses are reported through
`ToolResult::messages`, while preserving the existing null-loss behavior.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs:
- Line 230: Update the DateTime-to-Date default handling in add_feature to
preserve and report Cut::Time when the supplied DateTime includes a time
component; keep date-only defaults uncut and leave numeric coercion unchanged.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs:
- Line 531: In the test flow using s.run, assert the calculated seen value
derived from founded before the edit.setValue call overwrites it. Keep the later
overwrite and assertion only for their separate test purpose, so the calculation
is independently verified.
- Line 535: Update the Calculate Field and Paste test checks around the
notices_since assertion to use a date-time whose day differs from the original
founded value, then assert the resulting founded date for each conversion before
undoing the calculation or removing Moments.
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Review comments at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs:
- Line 2351: Update the fallback conversion in the value-matching logic to
prevent Date or DateTime values from being silently parsed as Boolean; reject
the incompatible conversion or report the loss through ToolResult::messages,
preserving the temporal value or making the loss explicit.
- Line 580: Update the Statistics Field parameter at the K::NumericField
selector so it accepts both numeric and Date/DateTime fields. Scope the change
to this parameter and preserve the existing numeric-only behavior of other
NumericField selectors.
Review comments at @crates/engine/src/cmd/design.rs:
- Around line 1887-1891: Update the default-value validation in the
edit.template flow to reject Date or DateTime values that coerce to null unless
the input explicitly asks for null. Return an error before replacing the
template, and preserve the existing behavior for valid temporal defaults and
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Major · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win
Report lossy numeric conversions too.
When an Integer update value of 9007199254740993 is copied into a Double field, converted rounds it to 9007199254740992. The result is not null, so Update returns it without a loss notice. Count and report numeric precision loss and truncation as well.
Based on learnings: “Existing silent losses are bugs” and losses must be reported through ToolResult::messages.
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Review comment at @crates/analysis/src/tools.rs at line 2420:
Update the conversion-loss accounting in the Update flow around `*n += usize::from(...)` to detect numeric precision loss and truncation in addition to null conversions. Ensure detected losses are reported through `ToolResult::messages`, while preserving the existing null-loss behavior.
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Report time loss from template defaults.
If a native caller supplies a DateTime template default for a Date field, add_feature keeps only the day without a notice. Preserve and report Cut::Time during feature creation without changing numeric coercion.
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/cmd/edit.rs at line 230:
Update the DateTime-to-Date default handling in add_feature to preserve and report Cut::Time when the supplied DateTime includes a time component; keep date-only defaults uncut and leave numeric coercion unchanged.
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Minor · Functional Correctness · Quick win
Assert the calculated date-time before overwriting it.
This edit replaces the result of calculating seen from founded. Line 553 then writes the value expected by the later assertion, so that assertion can pass even if the calculation wrote the wrong value. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs at line 531:
In the test flow using s.run, assert the calculated seen value derived from founded before the edit.setValue call overwrites it. Keep the later overwrite and assertion only for their separate test purpose, so the calculation is independently verified.
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The Calculate Field and Paste checks assert notices but not the resulting dates. Use a date-time whose day differs from the original founded value, then assert each written date before undoing the calculation or removing Moments. (raw.githubusercontent.com)
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Review comment at @crates/engine/src/tests.rs at line 535:
Update the Calculate Field and Paste test checks around the notices_since assertion to use a date-time whose day differs from the original founded value, then assert the resulting founded date for each conversion before undoing the calculation or removing Moments.
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Summary
This is the first of the four pull requests proposed in #853: Date and DateTime field types. It covers the types, project files, where clauses,
edit.addFieldand the table, plus the places that must understand dates from the first day: the time slider, statistics, joins and Calculate Field. Formats come in parts 2–4.It changes the data model and the project format. The design was put to the maintainers on #853 on 28 October; @deniial00 agreed it, and nobody has objected.
What
crates/data/src/date.rs):FieldType::Dateis a calendar day, stored as ani32count of days since 1970.FieldType::DateTimeis a moment: ani64count of microseconds since 1970, plus an optional offset in minutes.Valuevariants, andValuestays 24 bytes (there's a test).data::timenow takes its calendar arithmetic from the same integer functions.{"Date":"2026-03-05"}and{"DateTime":"2026-03-05T14:30:00+02:00"}. Projects without dates save exactly as before.issued >= '2026-01-01'compares dates, and so doBETWEENandIN.ts = '2026-03-05'matches midnight only.'2026','') still compares as text, so saved queries keep working.LIKE '2026-%'works too.edit.addFieldacceptsdateanddatetime, and both appear in the Add Field dialog (as "Date" and "Date and time", translatable).'founded' holds dates, so 3 results kept only their day.layer.fieldsreportsDateandDateTime. The assistant'sread_featuresorders date-times by instant. The plugin interface doesn't change.Changes from the proposal
issued + 30,-ts) is a parse error saying arithmetic on dates isn't supported yet, in Select By Attributes and in Calculate Field. Calculate Field's oldera op breader no longer takes these expressions over, also for a date field named like a literal (true + 1). A date reached any other way (coalesce(issued) + 1) gives null. Functions and arithmetic on dates are left for a follow-up that builds on this.out.gpkg: 2 date fields were written as text (ISO 8601), not as dates: 'issued', 'ts'. Native date columns come with parts 2 and 3.Also fixed on the way: places that silently stored null
Calculate Field: 'founded' is null in 1 row, whose result isn't a Date value. This also covers text calculated into a number field, which used to become null without a word.edit.setValueandedit.addFeaturerefuse a value a date field can't hold ('soon' isn't a Date value, or a number such as20260305) instead of storing null. The table already refused it; the CLI, Python and the assistant didn't. Number fields keep the notice fix(engine): Calculate Field keeps decimals exactly, and says what a whole-number field cuts #1406 gave them.Update: 'n' is null in 1 update feature, whose value isn't a Long value).<null>are intended nulls everywhere: no notice from Calculate Field oredit.setValue, and no refusal fromedit.addFeature.Paste: 'founded' is null in 2 features, whose value isn't a Date value), for number fields too, which it used to null silently. A date-time pasted into a date field keeps its day. Text pasted into a text field is kept as it is,<null>and empty text included.Not in this PR
{"Date":"2026-02-30"}) fails to open, with a message naming the value. RustGIS never writes one. Recovery belongs with the project format's schema (How should RustGIS projects store their data? A proposal for the .rgis format #1378).Decisions from #853
Date… Update RustGIS to open it", so nothing is misread or lost, and the project format number stays 1 (saved files).Testing
Value, and the project-file form round-tripping.BETWEEN,IN, midnight equality, partial literals compared as text,LIKE, and the arithmetic errors.edit.setValueandedit.addFeature, offer the field to the slider, then save and reopen the project.i16::MINrefused.cargo xtask cicargo build --target wasm32-unknown-unknown -p rustgis-webpre-commit run --all-filesUI evidence
The Add Field dialog now lists Date and DateTime. The screenshot below, rendered headless with
ui_shot, shows the attribute table with a Date field and a DateTime field, sorted descending by date (newest first). Thefounded >= '2010-01-01'selection is highlighted.Related issue
Part of #853 (part 1 of 4).
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