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fix(xlsx): keep table filters on their source columns - #51

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What does this change?

Keep loaded table-column identities through edits, and remap saved filter criteria and preserved column metadata by those identities. Criteria follow surviving columns, disappear with deleted columns, and cannot be revived on replacement columns after repeated insertions/deletions.

Fixes #50.

Type and area

  • Bug fix (non-breaking), in src/core/xlsx.

Testing

Column insertion/deletion, header rename, resize, repeated replacement, updateTable compatibility, save/reload and custom-filter metadata regressions.

  • Full local verification, 6,524 XLSX core tests, package checks and fork CI passed on 17ffd4ea5.
  • Review update: preserve zero-valued source-column IDs. All 52 related tests, strict core typecheck, changed formatting and lint passed on 62bcd8b30.
  • The full macOS browser run matched the 43 failures reproduced on unchanged upstream f57ee8e6.

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  • Bug Fixes
    • Table filters now remain associated with their original columns when columns are renamed, reordered, inserted or resized.
    • Filter criteria are preserved when a table is updated, and filters are removed when their source columns are deleted.
    • Column metadata is retained through header changes and edits, including after saving and reloading a workbook or undoing and redoing changes.
    • New columns receive appropriate identifiers, while existing column identifiers remain stable through table edits.

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Table parsing and updates preserve source column IDs. Table patching uses source identity to match columns, retain column metadata and remap saved filter criteria after column edits.

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Table filter column identity

Layer / File(s) Summary
Capture and retain source column IDs
src/core/xlsx/model.ts, src/core/xlsx/read/tables.ts, src/core/xlsx/edit/table-edits.ts, src/core/xlsx/write/save.test.ts
TableColumn records non-negative integer source IDs from table XML. updateTable retains an existing ID when a replacement column omits one. The save comparison helper excludes source IDs.
Match columns and remap filter criteria
src/core/xlsx/write/table-patch.ts
Table patching matches columns by source ID when available. It otherwise uses positional matching for untracked tables with equal column counts, then falls back to case-insensitive names. Filter criteria move to the matched column’s current index or are removed when that source column is absent.
Validate filter and metadata round trips
src/core/xlsx/write/table-filter-shift.test.ts, src/core/xlsx/write/table-patch.test.ts
Tests cover filter indexes and column metadata across edits, table updates, save and reload, and undo and redo.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Suggested reviewers: christophervr



Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 62bcd

Ordinary zero-ID tables retain their filters and metadata, but a table with an invalid column ID can attach them to the wrong column. The remaining risk is narrow and should be fixed or explicitly accepted before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 62bcd

Normal edits now keep saved filters with their original columns. Malformed column identifiers can still cause metadata to be lost or attached incorrectly, but the demonstrated impact is confined to the edited document. No broader security impact was established.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: Reader and writer identity normalization can disagree on malformed table XML. The reader rejects missing or blank IDs, while the writer coerces them to zero and allows later entries to overwrite earlier ones. A valid zero-ID column can consequently lose its criteria or inherit another column's preserved metadata. Tracked columns without a usable identity also lose positional/name recovery. This affects same-table metadata ownership, not an established security boundary.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — Crafted column IDs can affect saved criteria and metadata in the edited table. The inspected flow establishes document-level exposure, not access to another tenant, service, credential, or data store.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Imported IDs must be finite, non-negative integers to enter the model, and the reconciliation rejects reuse of an already matched source node. The writer's raw-ID map does not apply equivalent validation before selecting nodes.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — The pre-existing writer fallback generates fresh table XML when patching returns no result. This is a recovery path, not a guarantee that unmodelled source metadata survives malformed input.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Define one provenance policy for reader and writer ID validation, duplicate handling, malformed-input recovery, and caller-supplied identities. This would strengthen metadata ownership without treating column IDs as authorization controls.

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Check name Status Explanation
Linked Issues check Passed Issue #50 requires filters to stay with surviving source columns and to be removed when the source column is deleted. parseTable now retains loaded IDs in sourceId. patchAutoFilter remaps criter…
Out of Scope Changes check Passed The model, table reader, edit-session handling, table patching, and regression tests directly support Issue #50. The sourceId comparison change only excludes load-provenance data from test equality.…
Docstring Coverage Passed Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 10 functions across 7 files.
Description Check Passed Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: preserving table filters on their original source columns during XLSX table edits.

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🟡 Minor · Guard against a missing or non-numeric id in the source XML. · table-patch.ts:58

src/core/xlsx/write/table-patch.ts:58
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Guard against a missing or non-numeric id in the source XML.

Number(c.getAttribute('id')) returns 0 when the id attribute is absent, because Number(null) is 0. It returns 0 for an empty string too. Such a source node is then stored under key 0. A model column with sourceId 0 can then match that node by mistake. This inherits the metadata of the wrong column. The risk is real now that the PR accepts 0 as a valid ID. A later node with the same key also overwrites an earlier one.

Skip nodes without a valid attribute value when building byId.

Proposed fix
-	const byId = new Map(source.map((c) => [Number(c.getAttribute('id')), c]));
+	const byId = new Map<number, XmlElement>();
+	for (const c of source) {
+		const raw = c.getAttribute('id');
+		if (raw === null || raw.trim() === '') continue;
+		const id = Number(raw);
+		if (Number.isInteger(id) && !byId.has(id)) byId.set(id, c);
+	}
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Review comment at @src/core/xlsx/write/table-patch.ts at line 58:
Update the `byId` construction so source nodes with a missing, blank, or
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Preserve the first node for each valid numeric ID so later duplicates cannot
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