feat: drop unknown attributes on schema-managed writes instead of failing - #946
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…ailing A deploy that starts writing an attribute before the migration creating its column has run makes every write to that collection throw "Invalid document structure: Unknown attribute". On Appwrite Cloud that took OAuth2 login down for every provider: the identities row carried photoUrl, the deployed schema did not, so the redirect 500'd on each login. setDropUnknownAttributes() lets whoever owns a schema decide that a lagging column is a warning rather than an outage. The attribute is removed before the write and logged, so the request completes with the columns that do exist. It is off by default. A caller writing into a schema they own themselves keeps the rejection, because silently discarding data they sent is worse than refusing it. The drop removes exactly the set Structure would have rejected, so nothing that validates today changes shape, and adapters without attribute support are left alone. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughChangesThe database adds an opt-in Unknown Attribute Filtering
Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to With the opt-in behavior enabled, dropped-only writes can still change timestamps and emit update events, while bulk updates can report changes even when no declared fields remain; warning logs may also identify the wrong tenant. These bounded correctness and observability issues should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merge. Suggested reviewers: Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant Client
participant Database
participant encode
participant removeUnknownAttributes
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Client->>Database: submit document write
Database->>encode: encode document
encode->>removeUnknownAttributes: filter undeclared attributes
removeUnknownAttributes-->>encode: return filtered document
encode-->>Database: return encoded document
Database->>AdapterStorage: validate and persist document
AdapterStorage-->>Client: return stored document
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Greptile SummaryThe PR adds an opt-in mode that drops undeclared attributes before schema-managed writes while preserving strict validation by default.
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6344-6483: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick winChange detection runs before unknown-attribute removal, so an unknown-attribute-only write looks like a real update.
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updateDocument, the$shouldUpdatecomparison loop compares the merged document (old + new, including any unknown attribute) against$old.$oldnever contains the unknown key, because it was rejected or stripped before it could be persisted. Soself::valuesEqual($value, $oldValue)is always false for that key, and$shouldUpdatebecomestrueeven when every declared attribute is unchanged.removeUnknownAttributes()only runs afterward, at line 6483 — too late to affect this decision.The same pattern exists in
upsertDocumentsWithIncrease:$regularUpdatesUserOnlyis diffed against$old->getAttributes()to compute$hasChangesbeforeremoveUnknownAttributes()runs at line 7552.With
setDropUnknownAttributes(true)enabled, a caller that repeatedly sends the same known values plus one not-yet-migrated attribute — the exact deploy-lag scenario this feature targets — gets$updatedAtbumped andEVENT_DOCUMENT_UPDATEfired on every call, even though the persisted document never actually changes. This turns what should be a true no-op into a continuous stream of update events for webhooks, functions, and realtime subscribers.Move the unknown-attribute removal ahead of the change-detection comparison in both methods.
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updateDocument(around line 6340):$document = new Document($document); + // Strip undeclared attributes before deciding whether anything + // actually changed, so a write touching only an unknown attribute + // is not mistaken for a real update. + $document = $this->removeUnknownAttributes($collection, $document); + $attributes = $collection->getAttribute('attributes', []);For
upsertDocumentsWithIncrease(around line 7418):$old = $existingDocs[$this->tenantKey($document)] ?? new Document(); + // Strip undeclared attributes before computing $hasChanges, so a + // write touching only an unknown attribute is not mistaken for a + // real update. + $document = $this->removeUnknownAttributes($collection, $document); + // Extract operators early to avoid comparison issues $documentArray = $document->getArrayCopy();Also applies to: 7417-7552
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In `@src/Database/Database.php`:
- Around line 6344-6483: Move removeUnknownAttributes() before the
change-detection comparison in both updateDocument and
upsertDocumentsWithIncrease, ensuring unknown fields are excluded before
computing $shouldUpdate or $hasChanges. Preserve the existing persistence and
update behavior for declared attributes.
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Mirror extends Database but forwards every write to its source and destination, so the flag set on the Mirror decided nothing: the source still rejected the write and a mirrored deployment kept the outage the flag exists to prevent. Delegated the same way Mirror already handles preserveDates and preserveSequence. Caught by the new test running under the Mirror adapter. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
updateDocument and upsertDocumentsWithIncrease decide whether anything changed by diffing the merged document against the stored one. A dropped attribute is never in the stored document, so with the removal running after that diff every write carrying one looked like a real change: $updatedAt was bumped and EVENT_DOCUMENT_UPDATE fired even though the persisted row was identical. That is the exact shape of the migration window this flag is for, so a lagging column would have meant a spurious update event per request to every webhook, function and realtime subscriber watching the collection. The test now asserts $updatedAt is unchanged across a write whose only new value is the dropped one. Reverting the reorder moves it by 10ms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@cursoragent Just drop them in encode while we're already iterating attributes
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Moved unknown-attribute dropping into encode(), which already walks the schema. Create and bulk-update no longer do a second pass after encode.
encode() now records each attribute id as it iterates and strips keys that are neither $-prefixed nor in that set. Update and upsert still drop before the change-detection diff, so a write that only carries a missing column does not bump $updatedAt.
testDropUnknownAttributes now also asserts encode() itself removes the undeclared key. Pushed to fix/tolerate-unknown-attributes on PR #946. This environment has no PHP or Docker, so I could not run the suite here; watching GitHub CI for the result.
Encode already walks collection attributes; collect that known set there and strip undeclared keys instead of a second pass after encode on create and bulk-update. Update and upsert still drop ahead of change detection so a write that only carries a missing column is not treated as a change. Co-authored-by: Jake Barnby <abnegate@users.noreply.github.com>
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9297-9301: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winUse the document tenant in warning logs.
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adapter->getTenant(). In tenant-per-document mode,createDocument()has already assigned the document tenant, and upsert batches can contain multiple tenants after temporarywithTenant()scopes restore the session tenant. The warning can omit or misattribute the tenant. Prefer$document->getTenant()when present, then fall back to the adapter tenant.🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@src/Database/Database.php`:
- Around line 6340-6344: Update updateDocument() and
upsertDocumentsWithIncrease() so EVENT_DOCUMENT_UPDATE and
EVENT_DOCUMENTS_UPSERT are emitted only when their corresponding write count or
change flag is positive. Preserve the existing no-op behavior after
removeUnknownAttributes() filters dropped or unchanged documents, and skip event
dispatch when nothing was persisted.
- Line 9384: Update updateDocuments() so encode()/unknown-attribute filtering
runs before assigning updates['$updatedAt']; assign the timestamp only when the
filtered update retains a declared field update or operator. Ensure unknown-only
bulk updates leave documents unchanged and do not emit modification events.
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In `@src/Database/Database.php`:
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dropped-attributes handling to use $document->getTenant() when a document tenant
is available, falling back to $this->adapter->getTenant() otherwise. Preserve
the existing tenant suffix formatting and collection context.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Gate events on actual changes.
Filtering makes a dropped-only updateDocument call a no-op and removes unchanged documents from the upsert batch. However, updateDocument() still triggers EVENT_DOCUMENT_UPDATE at Line [6559], and upsertDocumentsWithIncrease() still triggers EVENT_DOCUMENTS_UPSERT at Line [7664] when no document changed. Emit each event only when the corresponding write count or change flag is positive.
Also applies to: 7421-7422
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In `@src/Database/Database.php` around lines 6340 - 6344, Update updateDocument()
and upsertDocumentsWithIncrease() so EVENT_DOCUMENT_UPDATE and
EVENT_DOCUMENTS_UPSERT are emitted only when their corresponding write count or
change flag is positive. Preserve the existing no-op behavior after
removeUnknownAttributes() filters dropped or unchanged documents, and skip event
dispatch when nothing was persisted.
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🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
Do not assign $updatedAt before filtering bulk updates.
updateDocuments() assigns $updates['$updatedAt'] at Lines [6654-6655] before calling encode() at Line [6657]. Filtering removes the unknown user key but preserves $updatedAt. The bulk loop then updates every matched document and emits EVENT_DOCUMENTS_UPDATE. An unknown-only bulk update therefore still changes timestamps and reports modifications. Filter first, then assign $updatedAt only when a declared update or operator remains.
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In `@src/Database/Database.php` at line 9384, Update updateDocuments() so
encode()/unknown-attribute filtering runs before assigning
updates['$updatedAt']; assign the timestamp only when the filtered update
retains a declared field update or operator. Ensure unknown-only bulk updates
leave documents unchanged and do not emit modification events.
Twenty-eight commits. The interesting part is that this branch moved most of Database.php into traits while main added a feature to the monolithic file, so git produced an eight-thousand-line conflict with nothing aligned. Every resolution below is main's change re-applied onto this branch's structure rather than a side taken. main's drop-unknown-attributes (#946): the property, the two accessors and removeUnknownAttributes() land on Database.php, and the two change-detection call sites on Traits\Documents where updateDocument and the batch path now live. Mirror gains the delegating setter. The helper reads attribute keys through the value objects this branch introduces -- Attribute, Document or array -- rather than $attribute['$id'], and asks supports(Capability::DefinedAttributes) where main asked getSupportForAttributes(), which this branch replaced. main's fulltext fix (#826): the unicode-aware sanitiser replaces the reserved-character list in SQL and Postgres, and the empty-term guards go in beside it. main patched MariaDB and Postgres separately; this branch had already consolidated MySQL's search into SQL, so the guard is written once there and MariaDB inherits it. Both of main's new tests come across, ported to the value-object API: createCollection takes a Collection, createAttribute an Attribute, createIndex an Index, and the capability checks go through supports(). Separately, addressing review: Event\DomainEvent is now Event\Domain. The namespace already says event, and no consumer has a competing Domain symbol, so no import needed aliasing. The local variables and createDomainEvent() keep their names -- they describe the action, and Event\Domain still reads as "domain event" through the namespace. phpstan at level max and pint are clean, and the unit suite is 1636 tests / 6259 assertions green. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What
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Database::setDropUnknownAttributes(bool). When enabled, an attribute the collection schema does not declare is removed from the document before the write and logged as a warning, instead of failing the write withInvalid document structure: Unknown attribute: "x".Off by default, so nothing changes for any existing caller.
Why
A deploy that starts writing an attribute before the migration that creates its column has run makes every write to that collection throw. On Appwrite Cloud this took OAuth2 login down for every provider: the
identitiesrow carriedphotoUrl, the deployed schema did not, and/v1/account/sessions/oauth2/:provider/redirect500'd on each login until the feature was reverted (appwrite/appwrite#13326, reverted by appwrite/appwrite#13355).The rejection is right when the caller owns the schema, and wrong when the application owns it. A column that has not been created yet is a deploy-ordering fact, not bad input, and refusing the write turns it into an outage. This lets the schema owner opt into the degradation: the request completes with the columns that exist, the missing value is lost until the migration runs and the writer sends it again, and the warning names what was dropped.
It stays off by default because for a caller writing into their own schema, silently discarding data they sent is worse than refusing it.
Scope
The drop removes exactly the set
Structurewould have rejected: keys that are neither$-prefixed nor declared incollection.attributes. So any write that validates today is unchanged, and the only writes whose behaviour changes are the ones that throw today.Adapters without attribute support are skipped entirely, so schemaless collections are untouched.
Applied on all five write paths that validate structure:
createDocument,createDocuments,updateDocument,updateDocuments,upsertDocumentsWithIncrease.On
updateDocumentandupsertDocumentsWithIncreasethe removal runs before the change-detection diff, not afterencode(). A dropped attribute is never in the stored document, so diffing against it first made a write carrying one look like a real change:$updatedAtbumped andEVENT_DOCUMENT_UPDATEfired on an identical row. That is the exact shape of the deploy window this flag is for, so it would have meant a spurious update event per request to every webhook, function and realtime subscriber on the collection.Mirrorforwards every write to its source and destination, so it delegates the setter the same way it already delegatespreserveDatesandpreserveSequence. Without that the flag decided nothing on a mirrored deployment, which the new test caught under the Mirror adapter.Tests
testDropUnknownAttributesinDocumentTestsdrives the public entry points and asserts what the database is holding afterwards, not just that no exception was raised:createDocumentstill throwsInvalid document structure: Unknown attribute: "unknown"$updatedAtuntouchedBoth halves were seen red before being fixed:
removeUnknownAttributesreverted to a pass-through, the test fails withUtopia\Database\Exception\Structure: Invalid document structure: Unknown attribute: "unknown", the production error verbatimencode(), the$updatedAtassertion fails on a 10ms differenceThe Mirror delegation was found by the test, not by inspection: it failed under
MirrorTestbefore the override existed.Follow-up
Consumers opt in separately: appwrite/appwrite#13357 enables it on the platform, project and logs handles and leaves tenant handles strict, and appwrite-labs/cloud#5463 does the same for cloud's own factory.
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