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A Format button next to Clear that pretty-prints the current query via a conservative, whitespace-only DQL formatter (lib/formatDql.js).

in:  {q(func: has(name)){name age friend{name}}}
out: {
       q(func: has(name)) {
         name
         age
         friend {
           name
         }
       }
     }

Formatter guarantees

  • Whitespace-only: never reorders, quotes, or rewrites tokens.
  • Tokenizer respects string literals (with escapes) and # comments — content inside strings is never touched; language tags (name@en:fr) stay merged.
  • 2-space indent, { at line end, } dedented on its own line, one field per line; @filter(...)/arg groups stay attached to their field; as-var blocks and query headers stay on one line.
  • N-Quad bodies inside set { } / delete { } mutation blocks are re-indented but otherwise left raw.
  • Idempotent (format(format(x)) === format(x), tested); unterminated string → input returned unchanged; unbalanced braces degrade gracefully (depth clamped, no error).

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14 unit tests covering all of the above. npm run build passes.

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  • New Features
    • Added a Format button to the query editor, enabled when the query contains non-whitespace content. Blank queries are left unchanged.
    • Format nonblank queries with consistent spacing and indentation while preserving query content, including strings, comments, directives, and mutation data. Formatting also accounts for query structure such as braces, parentheses, and operation headers.
    • Queries with incomplete string literals are left unchanged rather than reformatted.

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DQL formatting

Layer / File(s) Summary
DQL formatter implementation
client/src/lib/formatDql.js
Adds formatDql with tokenization, indentation, whitespace normalization, comment and string preservation, operation formatting, and mutation RDF block handling.
Editor formatting action
client/src/components/EditorPanel.js
Adds a Format button that formats nonblank queries and updates the editor query.
Formatter behavior coverage
client/src/lib/formatDql.test.js
Tests formatting output, idempotency, preservation rules, mutation blocks, malformed strings, empty input, and whitespace handling.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~30 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant EditorPanel
  participant formatDql
  participant QueryState
  EditorPanel->>formatDql: format nonblank query
  formatDql-->>EditorPanel: return formatted query
  EditorPanel->>QueryState: update query
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The formatting action has no established production defect. Correcting the compact comment-prefixed fixtures will strengthen regression coverage; this bounded test improvement does not block merging.

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In `@client/src/lib/formatDql.js`:
- Line 50: Update tokenize() to recognize complete angle-bracket identifiers as
atomic word tokens before comment and punctuation handling, preserving their
contents through formatting and brace matching. Add regression coverage for
query predicates and same-line set/delete raw blocks containing identifiers with
# characters.
- Around line 91-92: Update formatDql’s tokenizer to recognize DQL
regular-expression literals before punctuation and word scanning, preserving
escaped characters, character classes, and trailing flags as a single token.
Ensure formatting leaves literals such as regexp(name, /^a{2,3}$/) unchanged,
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shaunpatterson and others added 2 commits October 1, 2026 12:14
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The tokenizer read ':' and '#' as structure wherever they appeared, so an
angle-bracket identifier came apart: <https://myschema.org#name> formatted
to <https: //myschema.org #name>, which no longer lexes. Scanning <...> as
one token before the comment and punctuation branches keeps it whole.

A regex literal came apart the same way, and that one fails quietly. The
braces of a quantifier were read as block punctuation, so /Alic{1}e/ became
/Alic { 1 } e/ — still valid, still a 200, and matching nothing. On a cluster
holding "Alice Hopper" the original returns it and the formatted query
returns an empty list, so the only signal is that results went missing.
Regex literals are now scanned as one token too, escapes and trailing flags
included.

Mutations were affected through the same root cause: a '#' prevented the
brace matching that raw-block detection relies on, so N-Quads were reindented
as ordinary tokens and _:a came out as "_: a". It follows from the tokenizer
fix and needs nothing further.

A regex literal always begins a token while a division is always mid-word, so
math(1/2) is consumed as a word before the regex branch is reached and the two
cannot be confused.

Thirteen cases added. Six fail against the previous tokenizer; the other seven
cover behaviour that already worked — a plain <name>, a character class with no
braces, an escaped slash, division, half-typed input — so the new scanning
cannot regress them.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

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- Around line 68-104: In tokenize, gate the regex-literal branch so it scans a
regex only when the previous significant token is `(` or `,`; otherwise treat
`/` as division, preserving spaced division and later regex literals. Add a
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The scans added for atomic '<...>' and '/.../' tokens fired on any '<' or
'/' that began a token, including the operators. A spaced division started a
regex scan that ran to the next slash on the line, so when that slash opened
a real regex the real one was consumed and its body reformatted as code:

  { ... y: math(x / 2) } r(func: regexp(name, /^a{2}/)) { uid } }

came out with "/ ^a { 2 } /". Spaced division inside math() is ordinary, and
the fault is the one the atomic scan existed to prevent, reached by another
route. A regex literal is only ever an argument, so it can only follow '(' or
',' while a division always follows an operand; the scan now checks the
previous significant token.

The IRI scan is narrowed the same way, though by a different test: an IRI
contains neither whitespace nor a quote. A '<' meaning less-than would
otherwise scan to the next '>', which can sit inside a string literal, and a
token ending mid-string shifts which quotes pair up after it. No input was
found that visibly corrupts — a false token is emitted verbatim, so it
survives by luck — and the guard removes the reliance on that.

Six cases added. One fails without the guards; the IRI ones pin behaviour that
currently holds by accident. They compare output flattened to single spaces
rather than with whitespace stripped, which is how the first version of these
tests missed the bug: the corruption is inserted whitespace, so stripping it
deleted the evidence and the assertion passed on a mangled query.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
The hand-written cases each had to be thought of first, and the two bugs
found so far were both reached by inputs nobody had thought of. This
generates 56,320 queries by combining root functions, pagination, directives,
fields and a second block, each in spaced and minified form.

The invariant is that a literal — a string body, a regex, an IRI — comes back
byte for byte, since mistaking an operator for the start of one is exactly
what the tokenizer gets wrong. Each fragment declares the literals it holds,
so the assertion compares against an inventory rather than re-scanning the
output with the formatter's own logic, which would hide a shared mistake.
Idempotency and character preservation are checked alongside.

Both block orders are generated, and a minified variant of every query. A '/'
read as division only swallows a *later* literal, so a corpus that always put
the literal first could not reach that bug: the first version of this corpus
had that gap and passed with the guards removed.

Checked against both known bug sets rather than trusting a green run. Against
the original tokenizer 10 of the 34 cases fail; with the position guards
removed, 2 fail, naming the query:

  { q(func: has(name)) { v: math(x / 2) } r(func: regexp(name, /z{2}/)) ... }
    /z{2}/            -> /z { 2 } /
  { q(func: has(name)) { v: math(x / 2) } r(func: has(<https://y.org#n>)) ... }
    <https://y.org#n> -> <https:/ /y.org #n>

The second was not previously demonstrated: a division also eats the '//' of a
following IRI, so the guards were preventing more than had been shown.

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435-435: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Preserve the newline after the comment prelude.

When prelude is '# a note\n', the compact variant replaces the newline with a space. tokenize then treats the compact query body as comment text. The literal, idempotence, and character-preservation checks can pass without exercising query formatting.

This affects 14,080 compact generated cases. The 28,160 comment-prelude entries include both layout variants. Compact only the query body and retain the prelude newline.

Suggested fix
-                    query: query.replace(/\n/g, ' ').replace(/ {2,}/g, ' '),
+                    query: `${prelude}${query.slice(prelude.length).replace(/\n/g, ' ').replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ')}`,
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Review comment at @client/src/lib/formatDql.test.js at line 435:
Update the compact query variant to preserve the newline in the comment prelude:
compact only the query body after prelude, leaving the prelude unchanged so
tokenize can parse the body as a query.

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Review comments at @client/src/lib/formatDql.test.js:
- Line 435: Update the compact query variant to preserve the newline in the
comment prelude: compact only the query body after prelude, leaving the prelude
unchanged so tokenize can parse the body as a query.

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