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feat(api): PQL filtering for public work item lists - #10142
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Description
Implements PQL (Plane Query Language) filtering for the public API, following the grammar plane-mcp-server documents (get_pql_reference). Agents can filter on the server instead of downloading whole projects.
Stacked on #10139 (it wires PQL into the archived list and count endpoints added there); the first two commits belong to that PR.
plane/utils/pql/: lexer, recursive-descent parser and compiler to Django Q. No new dependencies, no eval. Limits: 2000 chars, 5 conditions, depth 10.
Functions: date functions (user timezone), currentUser, membersOf("project:..."), workspaceMembers, cycle and state-group functions, predicates (isOverdue, hasNoAssignee, hasChildren, isEpic, isIntake, ...) and relation functions (childOf, parentOf, linkedTo, blockedBy, blocks, duplicateOf).
Not available on CE (400 with a clear message): milestone, teamspaceProject, custom properties cf[...], history functions.
Wired into the project work item list, cycle and module work item lists, archived work items and work-items/count/. The PQL filter is applied after the existing permission and visibility filters, so it can only narrow results. Invalid PQL returns 400 {"pql": "..."}, which the MCP turns into a self-correcting hint.
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Feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
Test Scenarios
tests/unit/utils/test_pql_parser.py (87) and tests/contract/api/test_work_item_pql.py (64), plus updated count/archive tests.
Full API suite in docker-compose-test.yml: 1712 passed. ruff clean.
End to end with the unmodified plane-mcp-server==0.3.5: priority = "high" AND stateGroup IN openStates(), blockedBy("<id>"), hasNoAssignee() AND title ~ "b", count with PQL, and an invalid query returning the correction hint.
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This change adds PQL parsing and filtering to work-item list endpoints. It also adds public APIs for dependency and custom relations, archiving and unarchiving, archived-item listing, and grouped work-item counts.
Changes: PQL filtering
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PQL syntax and expression model apps/api/plane/utils/pql/ast.py, apps/api/plane/utils/pql/lexer.py, apps/api/plane/utils/pql/parser.py, apps/api/plane/tests/unit/utils/test_pql_parser.py
makeplane/plane#10139: This change extends public dependency, archive, count, and custom-relation API surfaces with PQL filtering and related query behavior.
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Filter related work items by project visibility in the internal relations list.
IssueRelationViewSet.list returns related issues with no visibility filter. A project member can read name, priority, labels, and assignees of a related issue in a project they cannot view. Pass extra_issue_filter=visible_issue_q(request.user) to group_issue_relations, as the public endpoints already do. This defect predates the PR. The PR keeps it unchanged.
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Review comment at @apps/api/plane/app/views/issue/relation.py around lines 245 -
250:
Update IssueRelationViewSet.list to pass a visibility filter based on
request.user to group_issue_relations, so the internal relations list only
includes issues the user can view. Preserve the existing groups and fields
arguments.
The guest belongs only to project_a, so project membership excludes project_b independently of archiving. Create the guest with active membership in archived project_b, then assert that its issue remains excluded. No other count-endpoint test covers this archive-exclusion regression.
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Review comment at @apps/api/plane/tests/contract/api/test_work_item_count.py
around lines 244 - 264:
Update
test_visibility_excludes_archived_projects_non_member_projects_and_respects_restricted_guest
to give the guest active membership in archived project_b, then verify
project_b’s issue remains excluded from the count while preserving the
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Review comments at @apps/api/plane/api/serializers/issue.py:
- Around line 620-625: Cap the work_item_ids ListField in the dependency create
serializer by setting max_length to the product’s established expected batch
size, and update its help_text to document the limit.
Review comments at @apps/api/plane/api/urls/work_item.py:
- Around line 131-138: In the archive and unarchive handlers of
IssueArchiveUnarchiveAPIEndpoint, dispatch issue_activity.delay only after
issue.save() succeeds. Explicitly handle broker-publish failure after the save
by preserving the activity through the existing activity-recording mechanism, so
persisted changes are not left without an audit entry.
Review comments at @apps/api/plane/api/views/issue.py:
- Around line 3138-3146: Add PQL_PARAMETER to the archived work items endpoint’s
work_item_docs parameter list so its OpenAPI schema documents the pql filter,
matching the sibling work-item list endpoint.
- Around line 526-529: Update the external-ID lookup in the issue handler to
apply PQL to its queryset before retrieving the issue, and return the response
if apply_pql produces one. Preserve the existing guest visibility check and
response behavior after retrieval.
- Around line 2862-2875: Update _delete_issue_relation to check that
related_issue_id matches an issue visible to request.user using the existing
visible_issue_q visibility rule before querying or deleting relations. Return
the same not-found response used for missing relations when the related issue is
not visible, so deletion does not reveal its existence.
- Around line 372-385: Update _apply_public_issue_ordering to handle state__name
and -state__name in a separate branch that orders by the requested state name
direction, with -created_at as the tie-breaker; leave the state-group ranking
branch for state__group ordering.
- Around line 2813-2828: Update the relation-creation flow around
IssueRelation.objects.bulk_create to detect when a visible, non-self target
already has an active relation for the ordered issue pair with a different
relation type, and return an appropriate conflict response instead of silently
succeeding. Preserve silent skipping for invisible targets and self-relations,
and keep the existing behavior of returning only relations actually created.
- Around line 3358-3360: Update the OpenAPI schema for IssueCountEndpoint.get to
document the supported pql, group_by, and sub_group_by query parameters
alongside the workspace slug; describe that sub_group_by requires group_by.
Review comments at @apps/api/plane/app/views/issue/relation.py:
- Around line 104-108: Update build_related_work_items_queryset to include
archived relation targets using Issue.objects while preserving
Issue.issue_objects exclusions for triage, drafts, and archived projects. Add
equivalent filters for those exclusions to the base-manager queryset, and retain
extra_issue_filter handling to prevent non-public issues from being exposed.
Review comments at @apps/api/plane/utils/pql/compiler.py:
- Around line 836-839: Update the hasChildren() branch in the PQL compiler to
apply the caller’s work-item visibility filter inside the Exists subquery, so
hidden child work items do not affect whether a parent matches.
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Major comments:
Review comments at @apps/api/plane/app/views/issue/relation.py:
- Around line 245-250: Update IssueRelationViewSet.list to pass a visibility
filter based on request.user to group_issue_relations, so the internal relations
list only includes issues the user can view. Preserve the existing groups and
fields arguments.
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Review comments at @apps/api/plane/tests/contract/api/test_work_item_count.py:
- Around line 244-264: Update
test_visibility_excludes_archived_projects_non_member_projects_and_respects_restricted_guest
to give the guest active membership in archived project_b, then verify
project_b’s issue remains excluded from the count while preserving the
restricted-guest assertion for project_a.
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Check related issue visibility before deleting a relation.
_delete_issue_relation checks only the URL issue. A project member can delete a relation to an issue they cannot view, and the 204/404 response reveals whether that relation exists. Creation and reads already apply visible_issue_q; deletion should too.
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def _delete_issue_relation(request, slug, project_id, issue_id, related_issue_id, allowed_db_types):
Issue.issue_objects.get(workspace__slug=slug, project_id=project_id, pk=issue_id)
+ if not Issue.objects.filter(visible_issue_q(request.user), pk=related_issue_id).exists():+ return Response({"error": "Issue relation not found"}, status=status.HTTP_404_NOT_FOUND)
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Fixed on the base branch (#10139, 91bf026): deleting a relation to a work item the caller cannot see returns 404. Test: test_delete_dependency_to_invisible_target_returns_404.
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- Around line 3184-3191: Update the archived external-ID lookup in the
`external_id` and `external_source` branch to apply `apply_pql` to the filtered
queryset before retrieving the issue. Return any `Response` produced by
`apply_pql`, then resolve the filtered lookup so PQL filters and malformed-query
errors are honored.
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- Around line 521-523: Update the digit-suffixed identifier branch around
tail.isdecimal() to match sequence_id by text prefix, normalizing the numeric
tail so leading zeros behave like the equivalent unpadded prefix; preserve
project-only prefix behavior. Add a contract test confirming that matching
“PQL-1” includes both sequence IDs 1 and 10.
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Description
Implements PQL (Plane Query Language) filtering for the public API, following the grammar
plane-mcp-serverdocuments (get_pql_reference). Agents can filter on the server instead of downloading whole projects.Stacked on #10139 (it wires PQL into the archived list and count endpoints added there); the first two commits belong to that PR.
plane/utils/pql/: lexer, recursive-descent parser and compiler to DjangoQ. No new dependencies, no eval. Limits: 2000 chars, 5 conditions, depth 10.Exists()(set semantics, soft-deleted links ignored).cf[...], history functions.work-items/count/. The PQL filter is applied after the existing permission and visibility filters, so it can only narrow results. Invalid PQL returns 400{"pql": "..."}, which the MCP turns into a self-correcting hint.Type of Change
Test Scenarios
tests/unit/utils/test_pql_parser.py(87) andtests/contract/api/test_work_item_pql.py(64), plus updated count/archive tests.docker-compose-test.yml: 1712 passed.ruffclean.plane-mcp-server==0.3.5:priority = "high" AND stateGroup IN openStates(),blockedBy("<id>"),hasNoAssignee() AND title ~ "b", count with PQL, and an invalid query returning the correction hint.References
Part of #10135.
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