fixed error generating rdb: improve view table alias generation (#3174)

Co-authored-by: Stefano Ricci <[email protected]>

common/model/db/sql/index.js

@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import * as StringUtils from '@core/stringUtils'
+
 export const types = {
   uuid: 'UUID',
   varchar: 'VARCHAR',
@@ -9,13 +11,25 @@ export const types = {
   geometryPoint: 'geometry(Point)',
 }
 
-// Alias
+/**
+ * Generates an alias from the specified name, splitting it into words
+ * and getting the first letter of each word, to make it more or less human readable,
+ * followed by a short hash of the name, to make it (almost) unique, but still short.
+ *
+ * @param {!string} name - The name used to generate the alias.
+ * @returns {string} - The generated alias.
+ */
 export const createAlias = (name) =>
   // add '_' prefix to avoid collision with reserved words
   `_${name
+    // split in words
     .split('_')
+    // get first letters of each word
     .map((word) => word[0])
-    .join('')}`
+    .join('')}_${
+    // append name hash to avoid collisions
+    StringUtils.hashCode(name)
+  }`
 
 export const addAlias = (alias, ...columnNames) => columnNames.map((columnName) => `${alias}.${columnName}`)
 

core/stringUtils.js

@@ -49,3 +49,17 @@ export const removePrefix = (prefix) => (text) => (text.startsWith(prefix) ? tex
 export const removeSuffix = (suffix) => (text) => text.substring(0, text.length - suffix.length)
 
 export const quote = (text) => (isBlank(text) ? '' : `'${text}'`)
+
+export const hashCode = (str) => {
+  let hash = 0
+  if (typeof str !== 'string' || str.length === 0) {
+    return String(hash)
+  }
+  for (let i = 0; i < str.length; i++) {
+    const char = str.charCodeAt(i)
+    hash = (hash << 5) - hash + char
+    hash = hash & hash // convert to 32bit integer
+  }
+  hash = hash >>> 0 // convert signed to unsigned https://stackoverflow.com/a/1908655
+  return Number(hash).toString(32).toUpperCase() // make the hash small, convert base10 to base32
+}