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Copilot AI commented Nov 13, 2025

Why make this change?

We need to add the new 'autoentities' properties that will later be used to allow the user to add multiple entities at the same time. The properties need to have all the necessary components to be serialized and deserialized from the config file.

What is this change?

  • This change adds the autoentities property to the schema file with proper structure using additionalProperties to allow user-defined autoentity definition names.
  • Created new files that allow for the properties to be serialized and deserialized:
    • AutoentityConverter.cs
    • AutoentityPatternsConverter.cs
    • AutoentityTemplateConverter.cs
    • RuntimeAutoentitiesConverter.cs
  • Created new files where deserialized properties are turned to usable objects:
    • Autoentity.cs
    • AutoentityPatterns.cs
    • AutoentityTemplate.cs
    • RuntimeAutoentities.cs
  • Added entity-level MCP configuration support:
    • EntityMcpOptions.cs - Supports both boolean shorthand and object format for MCP configuration
    • EntityMcpOptionsConverterFactory.cs - Handles serialization/deserialization of MCP options
  • Registered autoentity converters in RuntimeConfigLoader.cs for proper deserialization.
  • Updated schema description to "Defines automatic entity generation rules for MSSQL tables based on include/exclude patterns and defaults."
  • Added required: ["permissions"] constraint to enforce at least one permission per specification.

Schema Structure: The autoentities object uses additionalProperties to allow any string key as a user-defined autoentity definition name (e.g., "public-tables", "admin-tables", etc.), consistent with how the "entities" section works.

MCP Configuration: Supports two formats:

  • Boolean shorthand: "mcp": true or "mcp": false
  • Object format: "mcp": { "dml-tools": true}

Example configuration:

{
  "autoentities": {
    "<user-defined name>": {    // This property name is decided by the user to show a group of autoentities
      "patterns": {
        "include": ["dbo.%"],
        "exclude": ["dbo.internal_%"],
        "name": "{object}"
      },
      "template": {
        "mcp": { "dml-tools": true },
        "rest": { "enabled": true },
        "graphql": { "enabled": true },
        "health": { "enabled": true },
        "cache": { "enabled": false }
      },
      "permissions": [
        { 
          "role": "anonymous", 
          "actions": ["read"]
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}

How was this tested?

  • Integration Tests
  • Unit Tests

Copilot AI changed the title [WIP] Add serialization of wildcard properties in schema Add schema and serialization support for autoentities wildcard patterns Nov 13, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from RubenCerna2079 November 13, 2025 22:16
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@RubenCerna2079 RubenCerna2079 changed the title Add schema and serialization support for autoentities wildcard patterns Add schema and serialization support for autoentities wildcard enhancement Nov 21, 2025
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Copilot AI commented Dec 18, 2025

@RubenCerna2079 Why did you add "mcp": { "describe-entities": true, "read-records": true }, to the configuration? What is this supposed to do? I hope this is a typo and you meant `"mcp": { "dml-tool...

The MCP configuration supports both formats per EntityMcpOptions:

  • Boolean shorthand: "mcp": true or "mcp": false
  • Object format: "mcp": { "dml-tools": true, "custom-tool": false }

The example shown uses the object format with individual tool settings, which is valid. I've updated the PR description example to use the simpler boolean shorthand format for clarity.

Copilot AI changed the title Add schema and serialization support for autoentities enhancement Add schema and serialization support for autoentities wildcard enhancement Dec 18, 2025
Copilot AI requested a review from Aniruddh25 December 18, 2025 20:10
@RubenCerna2079 RubenCerna2079 force-pushed the copilot/add-wildcard-properties-schema branch from 60e33c7 to 8fc87af Compare December 19, 2025 01:38
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@JerryNixon that was a mistake from copilot, in the schema we only allow the format "mcp": { "dml-tools": true }

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LGTM.

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@RubenCerna2079 RubenCerna2079 merged commit 9bbe252 into main Dec 23, 2025
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