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Implements IAnalyticsService from @objectstack/spec as a new foundation plugin supporting analytical query push-down across SQL, MongoDB, and memory drivers.

Architecture

AnalyticsQuery + CubeDefinition
        │
  SemanticCompiler → LogicalPlan (driver-agnostic IR)
        │
  ┌─────┼─────────────┐
  ▼     ▼             ▼
 SQL  ObjectQL    MemoryFallback
(Knex) (aggregate)  (JS in-memory)

Strategy selection is automatic based on driver capabilities:

  1. NativeSQLStrategy — driver exposes knex instance → full SQL push-down
  2. ObjectQLStrategy — driver supports aggregate() + queryAggregations → delegate to driver
  3. MemoryFallbackStrategy — fetch all → JS aggregation (dev/test only)

Package: @objectql/plugin-analytics

  • CubeRegistry — manifest-based registration + automatic inference from MetadataRegistry objects (numeric fields → sum/avg/min/max measures, other fields → dimensions)
  • SemanticCompiler — validates query against cube schema, resolves dotted references (orders.count), produces LogicalPlan
  • 3 strategies — NativeSQL (Knex query builder + plain SQL generation), ObjectQL (driver aggregate delegation), Memory (grouping + aggregation in JS)
  • AnalyticsService — implements IAnalyticsService.query(), getMeta(), generateSql()
  • AnalyticsPluginRuntimePlugin with init() adapter for @objectstack/core compat, registers 'analytics' kernel service

Usage

import { AnalyticsPlugin } from '@objectql/plugin-analytics';

const kernel = new ObjectStackKernel([
  new AnalyticsPlugin({
    cubes: [ordersCube],  // optional manifests
    autoDiscover: true,   // infer from metadata
  }),
]);

// Query
const result = await kernel.analyticsService.query({
  cube: 'orders',
  measures: ['orders.count', 'orders.totalAmount'],
  dimensions: ['orders.status'],
  filters: [{ member: 'orders.region', operator: 'equals', values: ['US'] }],
});

// SQL dry-run
const { sql, params } = await kernel.analyticsService.generateSql(query);

Tests

44 tests covering CubeRegistry, SemanticCompiler, all three strategy branches, AnalyticsService dispatch logic, and AnalyticsPlugin lifecycle. No pre-existing tests affected.

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<issue_title>Implement service-analytics plugin supporting multi-database analytical queries (SQL/Mongo/Memory)</issue_title>
<issue_description>## Background
The current analytics capability exists only as MemoryAnalyticsService (memory engine, using Mingo) in the spec repository, lacking production-level support for advanced queries (aggregation, grouping, drilldown) on SQL and MongoDB backends.

Objective

  • Implement a full-featured plugin-analytics module under packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/ in objectql.
  • Provide a standards-compliant implementation of the IAnalyticsService contract (as specified in @objectstack/spec) supporting analytical query push-down for any Driver (Postgres, Mongo, Memory, etc).
  • Support automatic discovery and registration of Cubes, both by manifest and automatic model/object inference.
  • Use a strategy pattern to dynamically dispatch analytic queries according to driver capabilities:
    • NativeSQLStrategy (pushes down analytics to SQL DB)
    • ObjectQLStrategy (uses QueryService.aggregate when driver supports generic aggregation)
    • MemoryFallbackStrategy (Memory/Mingo, for dev/test only)
  • Provide native SQL dry-run/explanation and generation support (generateSql).

Architecture Guidance

  • Core query and cube/planner logic should live alongside or leverage plugin-query and QueryService.
  • SemanticCompiler layer: AnalyticsQuery + Cube model → LogicalPlan (driver-agnostic).
  • PhysicalCompiler/Strategy (per driver): LogicalPlan → driver-executable format (SQL AST, Mongo Pipeline, Mingo stages).
  • Use SqlDriver, MongoDriver, and MemoryDriver directly in integration tests, supporting in-memory and CI-friendly executions (e.g., SQLite or MongoMemoryServer).
  • Expose the analytics service as a Kernel plugin, registering with registerService('analytics', ...), discoverable by REST API or objectql kernel consumers.

Acceptance Criteria

  • SQL and Mongo drivers (from objectql) can be used to power /api/v1/analytics/query with aggregation, group-by, filter.
  • AnalyticsStrategy dynamically dispatches based on driver capabilities (queryAggregations).
  • dev/test remain compatible with memory engine for simple projects.
  • CubeRegistry supports manifest and automatic model analysis.
  • Integration tests with real SqlDriver (SQLite) and MongoDriver (mongodb-memory-server) cover all strategy branches and critical SQL dialects.
  • generateSql() produces correct SQL for each dialect.
  • Documentation and sample usage/reference updated.

Issue split from spec#945. All analytics/BI driver logic, integration, and tests must reside in the objectql repo for maintainable test-driven development and accurate multi-driver verification.</issue_description>

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Implements the IAnalyticsService contract from @objectstack/spec with:
- CubeRegistry (manifest + auto-discovery from metadata)
- SemanticCompiler (AnalyticsQuery + Cube → LogicalPlan)
- NativeSQLStrategy (SQL push-down via Knex)
- ObjectQLStrategy (driver.aggregate() delegation)
- MemoryFallbackStrategy (in-memory aggregation for dev/test)
- AnalyticsPlugin (kernel plugin, registers 'analytics' service)
- generateSql() dry-run support
- 44 integration tests covering all strategy branches

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Pull request overview

This PR adds a new foundation plugin, @objectql/plugin-analytics, implementing the IAnalyticsService contract and providing a strategy-based execution pipeline intended to support analytical query push-down across different driver backends.

Changes:

  • Introduces the @objectql/plugin-analytics package (CubeRegistry, SemanticCompiler, AnalyticsService, and driver strategies).
  • Adds a comprehensive Vitest suite for the plugin and wires the package into the monorepo test aliasing and lockfile.
  • Updates release documentation (ROADMAP + CHANGELOG) to reflect the new plugin.

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vitest.config.ts Adds path alias for @objectql/plugin-analytics in tests.
pnpm-lock.yaml Registers the new plugin package dependencies in the workspace lockfile.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/package.json New package manifest for the analytics plugin.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/tsconfig.json TypeScript build config for the new package.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/index.ts Public exports for plugin/service/strategies and types.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/types.ts Defines internal IR/types and re-exports spec types for consumers.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/cube-registry.ts Implements cube registration + metadata-based inference.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/semantic-compiler.ts Compiles AnalyticsQuery into a driver-agnostic LogicalPlan.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/analytics-service.ts Implements IAnalyticsService and selects execution strategies.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/strategy-sql.ts SQL push-down strategy + SQL generation.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/strategy-objectql.ts Aggregation delegation strategy via driver.aggregate().
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/strategy-memory.ts In-memory aggregation fallback strategy.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/src/plugin.ts Registers the analytics service into the kernel and service registry.
packages/foundation/plugin-analytics/test/analytics.test.ts Integration-style tests for registry/compiler/strategies/service/plugin.
ROADMAP.md Adds plugin-analytics to the published plugin list.
CHANGELOG.md Adds Unreleased entry for the new plugin (also includes unrelated items).
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  • The Unreleased changelog includes multiple entries unrelated to this PR (apps/demo patch-symlinks changes, apps/demo deps, @objectql/types dependency move). Since those files aren’t modified in this diff, these bullets appear to be accidental or copied from another change set. Consider removing/moving them to the PR where those changes actually occur to keep release notes accurate.
### Fixed

- **`apps/demo/scripts/patch-symlinks.cjs`** — enhanced to automatically resolve and copy ALL transitive dependencies before dereferencing symlinks. Previously, only direct dependencies listed in `apps/demo/package.json` were available after symlink dereferencing, causing `ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND` for transitive deps like `@objectstack/rest`, `zod`, `pino`, `better-auth`, etc. The script now walks each package's pnpm virtual store context (`.pnpm/<name>@<ver>/node_modules/`) and copies any missing sibling dependency into the top-level `node_modules/`, repeating until the full transitive closure is present.
- **`apps/demo`** — added explicit `@objectstack/spec` and `zod` devDependencies as defense-in-depth for Vercel deployment.
- **`@objectql/types`** — moved `@objectstack/spec` and `zod` from `devDependencies` to `dependencies`. The compiled JS output contains runtime imports of `@objectstack/spec` (via `z.infer<typeof Data.X>` patterns), so they must be declared as production dependencies.

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// Build a query object compatible with the driver's aggregate interface
const query = this.buildAggregateQuery(plan);
const rows: Record<string, unknown>[] = await d.aggregate(plan.objectName, query);

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ObjectQLStrategy builds a UnifiedQuery-like object (aggregations/groupBy/where) and passes it to driver.aggregate(). MongoDriver.aggregate() (and MemoryDriver.aggregate()) expect a Mongo aggregation pipeline array, so with supports.queryAggregations=true this strategy will be selected and then fail at runtime. Consider adding a dedicated MongoPipelineStrategy (LogicalPlan -> pipeline) and selecting it for pipeline-based drivers, or making this strategy emit the correct shape based on driver type.

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// Aggregations
query.aggregations = plan.measures.map(m => ({
function: m.aggregation === 'countDistinct' ? 'count' : m.aggregation,
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countDistinct is mapped to function 'count' here, which drops the distinct semantics and returns incorrect results. Either emit a distinct-capable aggregation representation for drivers that support it (e.g., COUNT(DISTINCT ...) in SQL) or implement a Mongo pipeline translation (e.g., $addToSet + $size).

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function: m.aggregation === 'countDistinct' ? 'count' : m.aggregation,
function: m.aggregation === 'countDistinct' ? 'count' : m.aggregation,
distinct: m.aggregation === 'countDistinct',

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const d = driver as any;
if (typeof d.find !== 'function') {
throw new Error('MemoryFallbackStrategy requires a driver with a find() method.');
}
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These strategies throw plain Error instances. Elsewhere in the codebase (and in SemanticCompiler/AnalyticsService), structured ObjectQLError is used for API-safe error propagation. Consider throwing ObjectQLError here as well (with stable codes) so failures serialize consistently through API layers.

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const values = rows
.map(r => r[field])
.filter((v): v is number => typeof v === 'number');

if (values.length === 0) return 0;

switch (aggregation) {
case 'sum':
return values.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
case 'avg':
return values.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) / values.length;
case 'min':
return Math.min(...values);
case 'max':
return Math.max(...values);
case 'countDistinct':
return new Set(values).size;
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MemoryFallbackStrategy filters measure values to numbers only. That makes countDistinct incorrect for non-numeric fields (e.g., status/category), because all non-numeric values are dropped before the Set() size is computed. Update countDistinct to consider any non-null primitive (string/number/boolean/date) instead of only numbers.

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const values = rows
.map(r => r[field])
.filter((v): v is number => typeof v === 'number');
if (values.length === 0) return 0;
switch (aggregation) {
case 'sum':
return values.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
case 'avg':
return values.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) / values.length;
case 'min':
return Math.min(...values);
case 'max':
return Math.max(...values);
case 'countDistinct':
return new Set(values).size;
const rawValues = rows
.map(r => r[field])
.filter((v): v is unknown => v != null);
switch (aggregation) {
case 'sum':
case 'avg':
case 'min':
case 'max': {
const numericValues = rawValues.filter(
(v): v is number => typeof v === 'number',
);
if (numericValues.length === 0) return 0;
switch (aggregation) {
case 'sum':
return numericValues.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0);
case 'avg':
return numericValues.reduce((a, b) => a + b, 0) / numericValues.length;
case 'min':
return Math.min(...numericValues);
case 'max':
return Math.max(...numericValues);
default:
// Should be unreachable due to outer switch, but keep a safe fallback.
return rows.length;
}
}
case 'countDistinct': {
const primitiveValues = rawValues.filter(
(v): v is string | number | boolean | Date =>
typeof v === 'string' ||
typeof v === 'number' ||
typeof v === 'boolean' ||
v instanceof Date,
);
if (primitiveValues.length === 0) return 0;
const normalizedForSet = primitiveValues.map(v =>
v instanceof Date ? v.getTime() : v,
);
return new Set(normalizedForSet).size;
}

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if (typeof d.aggregate !== 'function') {
throw new Error(
'ObjectQLStrategy requires a driver that implements aggregate(). ' +
'Use MemoryFallbackStrategy for drivers without aggregation support.',
);
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These strategies throw plain Error instances. Elsewhere (SemanticCompiler/AnalyticsService) structured ObjectQLError is used, which is safer for API serialization and stable error codes. Consider throwing ObjectQLError here as well (e.g., ANALYTICS_DRIVER_UNSUPPORTED) so kernel consumers can handle failures consistently.

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drivers.forEach((driver: any, index: number) => {
const driverName = driver.name || (index === 0 ? 'default' : `driver_${index + 1}`);
datasources![driverName] = driver;
});
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When datasources are derived from kernel.getAllDrivers(), the first driver will be keyed by driver.name if present (e.g., SqlDriver.name='SqlDriver'), not by 'default'. But CubeDefinition.datasource defaults to 'default' (including auto-discovered cubes), so AnalyticsService can throw ANALYTICS_DATASOURCE_NOT_FOUND in the common single-driver case. Consider always adding datasources.default = drivers[0] (without removing name-based keys) or defaulting cubes to the first datasource key.

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selectParts.push(`${this.aggregateExpression(m)} as "${m.alias}"`);
}

let sql = `SELECT ${selectParts.join(', ')} FROM "${plan.objectName}"`;

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buildQueryPlain() interpolates identifiers (field/alias/objectName) directly into the SQL string with double quotes. This is not safely escaped if an identifier contains quotes, and it’s dialect-specific (e.g., MySQL). Consider either always using a real Knex instance for SQL generation, or add strict identifier validation/escaping before interpolation.

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throw new Error('NativeSQLStrategy requires a SQL driver with a knex instance.');
}
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NativeSQLStrategy.getKnex() throws a plain Error when knex is missing. Prefer throwing ObjectQLError with a stable code so callers can surface consistent, API-friendly errors.

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// SELECT — dimensions as group-by columns
for (const dim of plan.dimensions) {
builder.select(`${dim.field} as ${dim.alias}`);
}
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NativeSQLStrategy uses string interpolation for select (e.g. "${dim.field} as ${dim.alias}") which bypasses Knex identifier escaping and can enable SQL injection if cube definitions or metadata-derived field names are not trusted. Prefer knex.ref(dim.field).as(dim.alias) or knex.raw('?? as ??', [dim.field, dim.alias]) to ensure identifiers are safely escaped.

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