fix(gooddata-eval): make MAQL comparison case-insensitive for keywords - #1719
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📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughMAQL normalization now lowercases keywords and operators while preserving the case of brace-delimited identifiers and quoted string literals. Tests cover syntax normalization, identifier preservation, and case-sensitive literal values. ChangesMAQL normalization
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The comparison normalization still mishandles MAQL string literals containing escaped quotes, so distinct case-sensitive filter values could be treated as equal and produce incorrect evaluation results; merge should wait for an escape-aware matcher and regression coverage. Suggested reviewers: Poem
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| # Everything else in MAQL (keywords, operators, numbers, punctuation) carries no | ||
| # case-sensitive meaning, per the MAQL reference (SELECT/BY/WHERE/FOR PREVIOUS/etc. | ||
| # are case-insensitive; only {..} identifiers and quoted literal values are not). | ||
| _PROTECTED_RE = re.compile(r"\{[^}]*\}|\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'") |
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Note keywords do not have to be all uppercase. You can create a metric with lowercase keywords.
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Good point, and actually consistent with the fix here rather than a gap in it: _casefold_outside_protected lowercases every MAQL keyword/operator regardless of what case the agent (or a user) originally wrote it in, specifically so that a lowercase-keyword MAQL and an uppercase-keyword MAQL normalize to the same string and compare equal. So a metric created with lowercase keywords is exactly the case this PR makes work correctly — no change needed here.
_normalize_maql/_best_maql_match compare an agent's generated MAQL against expected_output.maql via exact string equality after whitespace/wrapper normalization -- but MAQL keywords (SELECT, FOR PREVIOUS, WHERE, BY, ...) are case-insensitive at the query-engine level (confirmed against the MAQL reference), while the comparison itself was fully case-sensitive. Reproduced live in gdc-mic-ai-evaluation, post the #1718 fix: fixture "Create a metric for the prior-year value of Active cards" expects SELECT {metric/active_card_count_-_txn_-_cutcgco} FOR Previous({label/process_date.year}) Agent produced, verbatim: SELECT {metric/active_card_count_-_txn_-_cutcgco} FOR PREVIOUS({label/process_date.year}) Byte-identical except FOR PREVIOUS vs FOR Previous -- scored as a fail. First fix attempt considered and rejected: lowercase everything outside {type/id} braces. That's wrong -- WHERE-clause literal values are ALSO outside braces (e.g. WHERE {label/status} = "Active") and are real, case-sensitive data, not keywords; blindly folding them would create a new false-positive risk (two genuinely different filter values scored as equal). Actual fix: per the MAQL reference, every literal value is quoted and every identifier lives inside {..} -- both are exhaustively structural markers, so protecting text inside either while casefolding everything else needs no keyword list at all (which would risk being incomplete against MAQL's large vocabulary: SELECT, BY, WHERE, HAVING, FOR PREVIOUS/NEXT/EACH, WITHOUT PF, TOP/BOTTOM, WITHIN, RANK family, RUNSUM family, IFNULL, CASE/WHEN, 15+ math functions, ...). Added _casefold_outside_protected(), applied as the final step in _normalize_maql. Tests added: - keyword case-insensitivity on the exact reproduced case (FOR PREVIOUS vs FOR Previous) - identifier case preserved ({metric/Mixed_Case_Id} untouched) - quoted literal case preserved AND still distinguishes real differences (WHERE x = "Active" vs WHERE x = "active" must stay a genuine mismatch -- this is the test that would have caught the rejected first draft) Updated the one existing test whose expected value assumed no case normalization ever happens (SELECT -> select). Full gooddata-eval suite: 274 passed, 9 pre-existing unrelated failures (missing openai extra in this test env; two unrelated test files) -- identical count to before this change. Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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In `@packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/metric_skill.py`:
- Around line 28-33: Update _PROTECTED_RE to match quoted MAQL literals with
escaped quotes without terminating at the escaped delimiter, preserving their
exact case during normalization; add a regression test verifying escaped
"Active" and "active" literals remain distinct.
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| # Matches whichever comes first: a {type/id} identifier reference or a quoted string | ||
| # literal -- both are case-sensitive data and must survive casefolding untouched. | ||
| # Everything else in MAQL (keywords, operators, numbers, punctuation) carries no | ||
| # case-sensitive meaning, per the MAQL reference (SELECT/BY/WHERE/FOR PREVIOUS/etc. | ||
| # are case-insensitive; only {..} identifiers and quoted literal values are not). | ||
| _PROTECTED_RE = re.compile(r"\{[^}]*\}|\"[^\"]*\"|'[^']*'") |
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
rg -n -C 3 -F '\"' packages/gooddata-eval || true
rg -n -C 3 -F "\'" packages/gooddata-eval || trueRepository: gooddata/gooddata-python-sdk
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- metric_skill.py outline ---'
ast-grep outline packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/metric_skill.py || true
printf '%s\n' '--- metric_skill.py relevant source ---'
cat -n packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/metric_skill.py | sed -n '1,110p'
printf '%s\n' '--- metric skill tests ---'
fd -i -t f 'metric.*test|test.*metric' packages/gooddata-eval/tests packages/gooddata-eval || true
rg -n -C 4 '_casefold_outside_protected|_best_maql_match|PROTECTED_RE|escaped|casefold' packages/gooddata-eval/tests packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic || true
printf '%s\n' '--- parser and MAQL literal references ---'
rg -n -C 3 'MAQL|quoted literal|escape|backslash|casefold' packages/gooddata-eval | head -300 || true
printf '%s\n' '--- static behavioral probe of the current and proposed regexes ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
import re
current = re.compile(r'\{[^}]*\}|"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\'')
proposed = re.compile(r'\{[^}]*\}|"(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"|\'(?:\\.|[^\'\\])*\'')
samples = [
r'"Active"',
r'"Act\\"ive"', # backslash-escaped double quote in MAQL text
r'"Active\\\\"', # escaped backslash at the end of a literal
r"'Act\\'ive'", # backslash-escaped single quote
r'"Active" AND "Other"',
]
for sample in samples:
print('INPUT ', repr(sample))
for label, pattern in [('current', current), ('proposed', proposed)]:
matches = [(m.group(), m.span()) for m in pattern.finditer(sample)]
folded = pattern.sub(lambda m: m.group(), sample.casefold())
print(f'{label:8}', matches, 'casefold-preserving=', folded)
PYRepository: gooddata/gooddata-python-sdk
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GoodData MAQL quoted literals backslash escaped quote string literal syntax
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In GoodData MAQL, string literals are typically enclosed in double quotation marks [1][2]. When a string contains characters that need to be escaped—such as internal double quotes—the backslash character () is used as the escape prefix [3]. For example, a string containing a single quote, such as "O'Brien", is rendered and escaped as "O'Brien" when used in a MAQL context [3]. The system automatically handles this escaping for parameters and string values to prevent syntax errors or the creation of broken string literals [3]. More broadly, in GoodData's underlying CTL (CloudConnect Transformation Language) literal syntax, double-quoted strings support the following backslash-escaped control characters [4]: - \n (newline) - \r (carriage return) - \t (tab) - \ (backslash) - " (double quote) - \b (backspace) If you are manually constructing expressions or interacting with GoodData via APIs where JSON or raw strings are required, ensure that double quotes within your string literals are preceded by a backslash (e.g., "") to maintain valid syntax [5].
Citations:
- 1: https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/cloud/create-metrics/maql/filters/
- 2: https://www.gooddata.com/docs/cloud-native/3.33/create-metrics/maql/filters/
- 3: https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/cloud/create-metrics/numeric-parameters/
- 4: https://help.gooddata.com/cloudconnect/manual/literals-ctl1
- 5: https://help.gooddata.com/doc/enterprise/en/data-integration/data-preparation-and-distribution/additional-data-load-reference/deleting-records-from-datasets/
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#!/bin/bash
set -euo pipefail
printf '%s\n' '--- existing metric normalization tests ---'
cat -n packages/gooddata-eval/tests/test_agentic_metric_skill.py | sed -n '55,105p'
printf '%s\n' '--- exact escape-aware behavior for one escaped quote ---'
python3 - <<'PY'
import re
current = re.compile(r'\{[^}]*\}|"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\'')
proposed = re.compile(r'\{[^}]*\}|"(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"|\'(?:\\.|[^\'\\])*\'')
samples = [
'"' + 'Act' + '\\' + '"' + 'ive"', # actual MAQL: "Act\"ive"
"'" + 'Act' + '\\' + "'" + "ive'", # actual MAQL: 'Act\'ive'
'"' + 'Active' + '\\\\' + '"', # actual MAQL: "Active\\"
'"' + 'Active' + '" AND "' + 'Other' + '"',
]
for sample in samples:
print('INPUT:', repr(sample))
for name, pattern in [('current', current), ('proposed', proposed)]:
matches = [(m.group(), m.span()) for m in pattern.finditer(sample)]
parts, last = [], 0
for m in pattern.finditer(sample):
parts += [sample[last:m.start()].lower(), m.group()]
last = m.end()
parts.append(sample[last:].lower())
print(f'{name}: matches={matches}; normalized={repr("".join(parts))}')
print()
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printf '%s\n' '--- GoodData MAQL escape references in repository metadata ---'
rg -n -i -C 3 'gooddata.*maql|maql.*(literal|escape|quote)|where .*".*"' \
packages/gooddata-eval README.md pyproject.toml setup.cfg 2>/dev/null | head -250 || trueRepository: gooddata/gooddata-python-sdk
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site:gooddata.ai/docs MAQL escaped double quote string literal backslash
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In GoodData's Multidimensional Analytical Query Language (MAQL), string literals are enclosed in double quotation marks (e.g., "value") [1][2]. To include a double quote character within a string literal, you must escape it using a backslash (") [3]. Similarly, other special characters or literal backslashes within strings are escaped using the backslash character [3]. For example, when a string value contains an apostrophe, it may be rendered or treated as "O'Brien" [3]. Additionally, in the context of the LIKE clause, which is used for pattern matching, the backslash character is used as an escape character for special pattern-matching symbols: to match a literal underscore () or percent sign (%) without triggering their wildcard behavior, they must be preceded by two backslashes (e.g., "\%" or "\") [4].
Citations:
- 1: https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/cloud/create-metrics/maql/filters/
- 2: https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/cloud/create-metrics/maql/
- 3: https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/cloud/create-metrics/numeric-parameters/
- 4: https://www.gooddata.ai/docs/cloud/create-metrics/maql/filters/filtering-with-the-like-clause/
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#!/bin/bash
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python3 - <<'PY'
import re
current = re.compile(r'\{[^}]*\}|"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\'')
proposed = re.compile(r'\{[^}]*\}|"(?:\\.|[^"\\])*"|\'(?:\\.|[^\'\\])*\'')
# MAQL text for a literal whose value is the quoted string `"Active"` or `"active"`.
samples = [
'"' + '\\' + '"' + 'Active' + '\\' + '"' + '"',
'"' + '\\' + '"' + 'active' + '\\' + '"' + '"',
]
for name, pattern in [('current', current), ('proposed', proposed)]:
normalized = []
for sample in samples:
parts, last = [], 0
for match in pattern.finditer(sample):
parts += [sample[last:match.start()].lower(), match.group()]
last = match.end()
parts.append(sample[last:].lower())
normalized.append(''.join(parts))
print(name)
print(' inputs: ', [repr(s) for s in samples])
print(' normalized: ', [repr(s) for s in normalized])
print(' equal: ', normalized[0] == normalized[1])
PYRepository: gooddata/gooddata-python-sdk
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Handle escaped quotes in protected MAQL literals.
The current pattern normalizes escaped "Active" and "active" to the same value. Use an escape-aware pattern and add a regression test for these literals.
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In `@packages/gooddata-eval/src/gooddata_eval/core/agentic/metric_skill.py` around
lines 28 - 33, Update _PROTECTED_RE to match quoted MAQL literals with escaped
quotes without terminating at the escaped delimiter, preserving their exact case
during normalization; add a regression test verifying escaped "Active" and
"active" literals remain distinct.
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Summary
_normalize_maql/_best_maql_match(metric_skill.py) compare an agent'sgenerated MAQL against
expected_output.maqlvia exact string equality afterwhitespace/wrapper normalization — but MAQL keywords (
SELECT,FOR PREVIOUS,WHERE,BY, ...) are case-insensitive at the query-engine level,while the comparison was fully case-sensitive.
Reproduced live
In
gdc-mic-ai-evaluation, after #1718 landed: fixture "Create a metric forthe prior-year value of Active cards" expects
Agent produced, verbatim:
Byte-identical except
FOR PREVIOUSvsFOR Previous— scored as a fail.First approach considered and rejected
Lowercase everything outside
{type/id}braces. Wrong —WHERE-clauseliteral values are also outside braces (e.g.
WHERE {label/status} = "Active") and are real, case-sensitive data, not keywords. Blindly foldingthem creates a new false-positive risk: two genuinely different filter
values would be scored as equal.
Actual fix
Per the MAQL reference,
every literal value in MAQL is quoted, and every identifier lives inside
{..}— both are exhaustive, structural markers. Protecting text insideeither while casefolding everything else needs no keyword list at all,
which matters because MAQL's actual keyword vocabulary is large (
SELECT,BY,WHERE,HAVING,FOR PREVIOUS/NEXT/EACH,WITHOUT PF,TOP/BOTTOM,WITHIN, theRANKfamily, theRUNSUMfamily,IFNULL,CASE/WHEN, 15+ math functions, ...) — an enumerated list would inevitablymiss one and only partially fix the bug.
Applied as the final step in
_normalize_maql, after the existingwhitespace/wrapper normalization.
Test plan
test_normalize_maql_is_case_insensitive_for_keywords— the exactreproduced case (
FOR PREVIOUSvsFOR Previous) now normalizes equal.test_normalize_maql_preserves_identifier_case—{metric/Mixed_Case_Id}survives untouched.
test_normalize_maql_preserves_quoted_literal_case— the test thatwould have caught the rejected first draft:
WHERE x = "Active"vsWHERE x = "active"must stay a genuine mismatch, not a false positive.test_normalize_maql_strips_whitespace, whose expected valueassumed no case normalization ever happens.
gooddata-evalsuite: 274 passed, 9 pre-existing unrelatedfailures (missing
openaiextra in this test env; two unrelated testfiles) — identical count to before this change.
ruff check/ruff format --checkclean.Related
Found while re-testing #1718's fix against real production fixtures — see
that PR's description for the broader investigation this follows from.
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