🐛 Fix coltypes for projects with dags

NEWS.md

@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ This will help extract forms from longitudinal & repeating projects.
 * `redcap_dag_read()` has new `data_access_group_id` field (introduced maybe in [13.1.0](https://community.projectredcap.org/articles/13/index.html)) (#459)
 * `redcap_users_export()` has new `mycap_participants` field (introduced maybe in [13.0.0](https://community.projectredcap.org/articles/13/index.html)) (#459)
 * Accommodate older versions of REDCap that don't return project-level variable, like `has_repeating_instruments_or_events`, `missing_data_codes`, `external_modules`, `bypass_branching_erase_field_prompt` (@the-mad-statter, #465, #466)
+* `redcap_meta_coltypes()` correctly determines data type for autonumber `record_id` fields. It suggests a character if the project has DAGs, and an integer if not. (@pwildenhain, #472)
 
 
 Version 1.1.0 (released 2022-08-10)

R/redcap-metadata-coltypes.R

@@ -235,11 +235,14 @@ redcap_metadata_internal <- function(
   d_meta <- REDCapR::redcap_metadata_read(    redcap_uri, token, verbose = verbose, handle_httr = handle_httr)$data
   d_inst <- REDCapR::redcap_instruments(      redcap_uri, token, verbose = verbose, handle_httr = handle_httr)$data
   d_proj <- REDCapR::redcap_project_info_read(redcap_uri, token, verbose = verbose, handle_httr = handle_httr)$data
+  d_dags <- REDCapR::redcap_dag_read(         redcap_uri, token, verbose = verbose, handle_httr = handle_httr)
 
   # Determine status of autonumbering, instrument complete status, and decimal mark
   .record_field         <- d_var$original_field_name[1] # The first field should always be the "record" identifier.
   .autonumber           <- d_proj$record_autonumbering_enabled[1]
-  .plumbing_possibles    <- c(.record_field, "redcap_event_name", "redcap_repeat_instrument", "redcap_repeat_instance")
+  # If the dags call fails, since the user is assigned to a DAG, then we assign .dags a value of TRUE
+  .dags                 <- nrow(d_dags$data) > 0 | grep("do not have permission", d_dags$raw_text)
+  .plumbing_possibles   <- c(.record_field, "redcap_event_name", "redcap_repeat_instrument", "redcap_repeat_instance")
   decimal_period        <- (locale$decimal_mark == ".")
   decimal_comma         <- (locale$decimal_mark == ",")
 
@@ -371,12 +374,14 @@ redcap_metadata_internal <- function(
   d <-
     d_meta %>%
     dplyr::mutate(
+      dags        = (.dags & (.data$field_name == .record_field)),
       autonumber  = (.autonumber & (.data$field_name == .record_field)),
     ) %>%
     dplyr::mutate(
       response =
         dplyr::case_when(
-          autonumber                                          ~ paste0("col_integer()"                        , "~~record_autonumbering is enabled for the project"),
+          dags                                                ~ paste0("col_character()"                      , "~~DAGs are enabled for the project"),
+          autonumber & !dags                                  ~ paste0("col_integer()"                        , "~~record_autonumbering is enabled and DAGs are disabled for the project"),
           field_type == "event_name"                          ~ paste0("col_character()"                      , "~~longitudinal event_name"),
           field_type == "repeat_instrument"                   ~ paste0("col_character()"                      , "~~repeat_instrument"),
           field_type == "repeat_instance"                     ~ paste0("col_integer()"                        , "~~repeat_instance"),

tests/testthat/test-metadata-coltypes.R

@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ test_that("simple", {
 
   expect_equal(actual, expected=expected, label="The returned col_types should be correct", ignore_attr = TRUE) # dput(returned_object$data)
   expect_s3_class(actual, "col_spec")
+  # Project has dags, so record_id should be a character
+  expect_equal(actual$cols$record_id, readr::col_character())
 
   ds <-
     redcap_read_oneshot(
@@ -68,6 +70,8 @@ test_that("longitudinal", {
 
   expect_equal(actual, expected=expected, label="The returned col_types should be correct", ignore_attr = TRUE) # dput(returned_object$data)
   expect_s3_class(actual, "col_spec")
+  # Project does not have auto-numbering enabled, so study_id should be a character
+  expect_equal(actual$cols$study_id, readr::col_character())
 
   ds <-
     redcap_read_oneshot(
@@ -103,6 +107,8 @@ test_that("superwide", {
   #
   # expect_equal(actual, expected=expected, label="The returned col_types should be correct", ignore_attr = TRUE) # dput(returned_object$data)
   expect_s3_class(actual, "col_spec")
+  # Project has auto-numbering enabled, and no dags, so record_id should be an integer
+  expect_equal(actual$cols$record_id, readr::col_integer())
 
   ds <-
     redcap_read_oneshot(