Reject form with unknown columns in entities sheet
lognaturel opened this issue · 1 comments
Currently, unknown columns are ignored on all sheets. This is generally convenient for the survey sheet because it makes it straightforward to add commentary or turn certain features off. In the case of the entities sheet (and maybe also the settings sheet), it feels like those patterns are less likely to be used.
Entity-related functionality is generally going to be added by defining new columns. For example, we recently introduced update_if. Because extra columns are ignored, using a form with update_if with an old version of pyxform does convert the form, it just ignores update_if. It would be more helpful if those forms were rejected instead. It would also be more inline with the versioning scheme for the entities spec and the fact that other consumers of the spec reject versions of the spec newer than they're aware of.
Because this is about rejecting columns in the special sheets, I think it sounds nice.
It would also have helped that one time I wrote create_id instead of create_if and it said "that's not a column we recognize".