X-Git-Url: https://git.arvados.org/arvados.git/blobdiff_plain/e3e54264e8bc767e1ec773cff4e5bdf4c4934a36..e5d3458808720f0b2ad25ba2b2be6a867b9d836e:/services/api/lib/load_param.rb

diff --git a/services/api/lib/load_param.rb b/services/api/lib/load_param.rb
index fb580f237c..8d5a9d21ee 100644
--- a/services/api/lib/load_param.rb
+++ b/services/api/lib/load_param.rb
@@ -89,11 +89,22 @@ module LoadParam
         order = order.to_s
         attr, direction = order.strip.split " "
         direction ||= 'asc'
+        # The attr can have its table unspecified if it happens to be for the current "model_class" (the first case)
+        # or it can be fully specified with the database tablename (the second case) (e.g. "collections.name").
+        # NB that the security check for the second case table_name will not work if the model
+        # has used set_table_name to use an alternate table name from the Rails standard.
+        # I could not find a perfect way to handle this well, but ActiveRecord::Base.send(:descendants)
+        # would be a place to start if this ever becomes necessary.
         if attr.match /^[a-z][_a-z0-9]+$/ and
             model_class.columns.collect(&:name).index(attr) and
             ['asc','desc'].index direction.downcase
           @orders << "#{table_name}.#{attr} #{direction.downcase}"
-        elsif attr.match /^([a-z][_a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z][_a-z0-9]+)$/
+        elsif attr.match /^([a-z][_a-z0-9]+)\.([a-z][_a-z0-9]+)$/ and
+            ['asc','desc'].index(direction.downcase) and
+            ActiveRecord::Base.connection.tables.include?($1) and
+            $1.classify.constantize.columns.collect(&:name).index($2)
+          # $1 in the above checks references the first match from the regular expression, which is expected to be the database table name
+          # $2 is of course the actual database column name
           @orders << "#{attr} #{direction.downcase}"
         end
       end
@@ -128,5 +139,4 @@ module LoadParam
     @distinct = false if (params[:distinct] == false || params[:distinct] == "false")
   end
 
-
 end