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Related: - #15683 - #14551 - #849 - #12701 - #11527 # Description Currently various commands have differing behavior regarding cell-paths ```nushell {a: 1, A: 2} | get a A # => ╭───┬───╮ # => │ 0 │ 2 │ # => │ 1 │ 2 │ # => ╰───┴───╯ {a: 1, A: 2} | select a A # => ╭───┬───╮ # => │ a │ 1 │ # => │ A │ 2 │ # => ╰───┴───╯ {A: 1} | update a 2 # => Error: nu:🐚:column_not_found # => # => × Cannot find column 'a' # => ╭─[entry #62:1:1] # => 1 │ {A: 1} | update a 2 # => · ───┬── ┬ # => · │ ╰── cannot find column 'a' # => · ╰── value originates here # => ╰──── ``` Proposal: making cell-path access case-sensitive by default and adding new syntax for case-insensitive parts, similar to optional (?) parts. ```nushell {FOO: BAR}.foo # => Error: nu:🐚:name_not_found # => # => × Name not found # => ╭─[entry #60:1:21] # => 1 │ {FOO: BAR}.foo # => · ─┬─ # => · ╰── did you mean 'FOO'? # => ╰──── {FOO: BAR}.foo! # => BAR ``` This would solve the problem of case sensitivity for all commands without causing an explosion of flags _and_ make it more granular Assigning to a field using a case-insensitive path is case-preserving. ```nushell mut val = {FOO: "I'm FOO"}; $val # => ╭─────┬─────────╮ # => │ FOO │ I'm FOO │ # => ╰─────┴─────────╯ $val.foo! = "I'm still FOO"; $val # => ╭─────┬───────────────╮ # => │ FOO │ I'm still FOO │ # => ╰─────┴───────────────╯ ``` For `update`, case-insensitive is case-preserving. ```nushell {FOO: 1} | update foo! { $in + 1 } # => ╭─────┬───╮ # => │ FOO │ 2 │ # => ╰─────┴───╯ ``` `insert` can insert values into nested values so accessing into existing columns is case-insensitive, but creating new columns uses the cell-path as it is. So `insert foo! ...` and `insert FOO! ...` would work exactly as they do without `!` ```nushell {FOO: {quox: 0}} # => ╭─────┬──────────────╮ # => │ │ ╭──────┬───╮ │ # => │ FOO │ │ quox │ 0 │ │ # => │ │ ╰──────┴───╯ │ # => ╰─────┴──────────────╯ {FOO: {quox: 0}} | insert foo.bar 1 # => ╭─────┬──────────────╮ # => │ │ ╭──────┬───╮ │ # => │ FOO │ │ quox │ 0 │ │ # => │ │ ╰──────┴───╯ │ # => │ │ ╭─────┬───╮ │ # => │ foo │ │ bar │ 1 │ │ # => │ │ ╰─────┴───╯ │ # => ╰─────┴──────────────╯ {FOO: {quox: 0}} | insert foo!.bar 1 # => ╭─────┬──────────────╮ # => │ │ ╭──────┬───╮ │ # => │ FOO │ │ quox │ 0 │ │ # => │ │ │ bar │ 1 │ │ # => │ │ ╰──────┴───╯ │ # => ╰─────┴──────────────╯ ``` `upsert` is tricky, depending on the input, the data might end up with different column names in rows. We can either forbid case-insensitive cell-paths for `upsert` or trust the user to keep their data in a sensible shape. This would be a breaking change as it would make existing cell-path accesses case-sensitive, however the case-sensitivity is already inconsistent and any attempt at making it consistent would be a breaking change. > What about `$env`? 1. Initially special case it so it keeps its current behavior. 2. Accessing environment variables with non-matching paths gives a deprecation warning urging users to either use exact casing or use the new explicit case-sensitivity syntax 3. Eventuall remove `$env`'s special case, making `$env` accesses case-sensitive by default as well. > `$env.ENV_CONVERSIONS`? In addition to `from_string` and `to_string` add an optional field to opt into case insensitive/preserving behavior. # User-Facing Changes - `get`, `where` and other previously case-insensitive commands are now case-sensitive by default. - `get`'s `--sensitive` flag removed, similar to `--ignore-errors` there is now an `--ignore-case` flag that treats all parts of the cell-path as case-insensitive. - Users can explicitly choose the case case-sensitivity of cell-path accesses or commands. # Tests + Formatting Existing tests required minimal modification. ***However, new tests are not yet added***. - 🟢 toolkit fmt - 🟢 toolkit clippy - 🟢 toolkit test - 🟢 toolkit test stdlib # After Submitting - Update the website to include the new syntax - Update [tree-sitter-nu](https://github.com/nushell/tree-sitter-nu) --------- Co-authored-by: Bahex <17417311+Bahex@users.noreply.github.com>