Accept SQL-cased boolean literals in filters - #316
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`is_active = true` failed with "Filter references unknown name 'true'". Python's ast treats only `True` / `False` as constants, so every other casing arrives as a name, gets collected as a column reference, and is then rejected by strict name resolution. Observed in production. An agent wrote `is_complete_month = true`, was told the name was unknown, and retried with `is_complete_month = 1` — which parses but emits `<bool> = 1`, and BigQuery rejects comparing BOOL to INT64. Two failed calls before it gave up on the filter. `true` and `false` now render as the SQL literals in any casing and are kept out of the collected column references. Both are reserved words in every dialect we target, so no unquoted column can be named either. `= 1` against a boolean column is a separate gap and still fails. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe filter SQL generator now emits case-insensitive ChangesBoolean literal handling
Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to The change is localized and mergeable with owner awareness, but mixed-case spellings such as TrUe and FaLsE are not covered by the current tests, leaving the advertised any-casing behavior less protected; add those cases or explicitly accept the bounded test gap. Suggested reviewers: 🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5✅ Passed checks (5 passed)
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In `@tests/test_formula.py`:
- Around line 442-449: Extend the parameter matrix for the relevant
formula-rendering test to include mixed-case boolean inputs such as TrUe and
FaLsE, with expected output normalized to TRUE and FALSE. Preserve the existing
lowercase, uppercase, and inequality cases.
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| @pytest.mark.parametrize( | ||
| ("expression", "expected"), | ||
| [ | ||
| ("is_active = true", "is_active = TRUE"), | ||
| ("is_active = false", "is_active = FALSE"), | ||
| ("is_active = TRUE", "is_active = TRUE"), | ||
| ("is_active <> false", "is_active != FALSE"), | ||
| ], |
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Cover mixed-case boolean spellings.
The implementation normalizes ast.Name.id with .lower(), but this matrix covers only lowercase and uppercase SQL spellings. Add cases such as TrUe and FaLsE to protect the any-casing contract.
The PR objective requires true and false to render correctly in any casing.
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("is_active = TRUE", "is_active = TRUE"),
+ ("is_active = TrUe", "is_active = TRUE"),
+ ("is_active = FaLsE", "is_active = FALSE"),
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| @pytest.mark.parametrize( | |
| ("expression", "expected"), | |
| [ | |
| ("is_active = true", "is_active = TRUE"), | |
| ("is_active = false", "is_active = FALSE"), | |
| ("is_active = TRUE", "is_active = TRUE"), | |
| ("is_active <> false", "is_active != FALSE"), | |
| ], | |
| @pytest.mark.parametrize( | |
| ("expression", "expected"), | |
| [ | |
| ("is_active = true", "is_active = TRUE"), | |
| ("is_active = false", "is_active = FALSE"), | |
| ("is_active = TRUE", "is_active = TRUE"), | |
| ("is_active = TrUe", "is_active = TRUE"), | |
| ("is_active = FaLsE", "is_active = FALSE"), | |
| ("is_active <> false", "is_active != FALSE"), | |
| ], |
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In `@tests/test_formula.py` around lines 442 - 449, Extend the parameter matrix
for the relevant formula-rendering test to include mixed-case boolean inputs
such as TrUe and FaLsE, with expected output normalized to TRUE and FALSE.
Preserve the existing lowercase, uppercase, and inequality cases.
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The problem
is_active = truefails:Python's
astrecognises onlyTrue/Falseas constants. Every other casing parses asast.Name, so_name_to_sqlappends it to the collected column references, and strict name resolution in enrichment then rejects it as an unknown column.SQL spells its booleans lower case, so this is the spelling anyone coming from SQL — or any LLM agent — writes first.
From production
A customer's agent, filtering to completed months:
is_complete_month = trueFilter references unknown name 'true'is_complete_month = 1No matching signature for operator = for argument types: BOOL, INT64It then abandoned the filter and queried unfiltered data. The second attempt is a direct consequence of the first: the error told it the name was wrong, so it changed the value.
The fix
true/falserender as SQL literals in any casing, and are kept out of the collected column references — they are values, not references:True/Falseare unaffected: they never reached the name path, and SQL keywords are case-insensitive sostr(True)was already valid.The trade-off is that a column named
truecould no longer be referenced unquoted in a filter. Both spellings are reserved words in every dialect we target, so no such column can exist unquoted anyway; a test documents this.Still open
<boolean column> = 1continues to emit<expr> = 1, which DuckDB accepts and BigQuery and Postgres reject. Fixing it needs the column's type at filter-parse time, andparse_filtercurrently receives no model. That is a wider change than this one, so it is deliberately not in scope here — see the PR discussion.Testing
TestParseFilterBooleanLiteralscovers all four casings plus the constant path. Ran the filter, formula, predicate, cube-filter, dbt-filter, named-measure and model suites locally: 563 passed, 2 skipped.🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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TRUEandFALSEliterals.Tests