Sneaky Anvil Updates

rickhurlbatt · May 27, 2022, 6:42am

WHAT!!
That is amazing

meredydd · May 27, 2022, 9:26am

It’s amazing how quickly some people notice these things. We literally deployed that yesterday, and the newsletter mentioning it is going out today!

david.wylie · May 27, 2022, 10:11am

You’re lucky I have a hangover. I was about to complain about the lack of an announcement

p.colbert · May 27, 2022, 2:53pm

anthonys · May 27, 2022, 3:09pm

I teared up on this one

rickhurlbatt · May 31, 2022, 3:57am

I’m not sure that this is Sneaky or new or if I am just rather unobservant.

When you are adding imports statements the colouring of the text tells you whether is is valid / you have the right number of dots to get to the right level. So does the colour of the dots I think - white dots are invalid. All purple text is incorrect where as blue then purple is legit.

Still much easier to use autocomplete - which is not new but is amazing!

owen.campbell · May 31, 2022, 1:02pm

oooh, hello add_rows

github.com

anvil-works/anvil-runtime/blob/8b066fcb9118392e2238827e0a91f75c9cfa5b03/services/anvil/tables/v2/_table.py#L73

    
      
          def client_writable(self, *args, **kws):
              return self._get_view(WRITE, args, kws)
          
          
def client_writable_cascade(self, *args, **kws):
              return self._get_view(CASCADE, args, kws)
          
          
def delete_all_rows(self):
              return self.search().delete_all_rows()
              # return anvil.server.call(PREFIX + "delete_all_rows", self._cap)
          
          
def add_rows(self, rows):
              # rows can be an iterable of dicts
              row_dicts = []
              refs = []
              for row in rows:
                  row = dict(row)
                  refs.append(make_refs(row))
                  row_dicts.append(row)
              row_id_caps, spec = anvil.server.call(PREFIX + "add_rows", self._cap, refs)
              return [
                  Row._create_from_local_values(self._view_key, self._id, row_id, spec, cap, row_items)

anthonys · May 31, 2022, 5:34pm

NESTED ALERTS ARE HERE! (perfecto)

jshaffstall · May 31, 2022, 6:00pm

This is the latest update that’s most changed (and simplified) how I approach the UI. Love it!

anthonys · May 31, 2022, 10:34pm

The auto-generated URLS are great as well

divyeshlakhotia · June 1, 2022, 2:57am

Which URLs are you talking about here?

anthonys · June 1, 2022, 2:14pm

I just published a new test app and the auto-generated URL was somewhere along the lines of “speedy-improbable-monkey.anvil.app” instead of the random string they use to be.

ianbuywise · June 1, 2022, 2:22pm

I wonder if they are using the xkcdpass library, I noticed it was installed in the list of packages.

correct-horse-battery-staple.anvil.app

divyeshlakhotia · June 1, 2022, 2:25pm

If I remember correctly, Anvil has been generating these funny URLs since a long time.

anthonys · June 1, 2022, 2:29pm

huh, for me its always been gobbledygook. Random string of numbers and letters.

jshaffstall · June 1, 2022, 2:33pm

Private URLs are the gobbledygook, public ones (that don’t use a custom domain) are the human readable ones. I think the only change is that new apps default to a public URL instead of a private one, but you can still choose to use a private one.

divyeshlakhotia · June 2, 2022, 2:07pm

I had no idea when they did it but there is also a q.page_size() method available which lets you define the number of rows to return

mark.breuss · June 11, 2022, 1:44pm

The Tabs in the Beta Editor are now drag and droppable

nathanguyette · June 11, 2022, 4:11pm

That’s awesome. I was actually going to do a feature request for it

alexBR · June 21, 2022, 1:51am

This is the latest update that’s most changed (and simplified) how I approach the UI. Love it!

wait…does this mean i can open an alert over an alert now?! are there docs on this?