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Enable var model = new Model({ foo: 'bar' }) instantiation.

Would be pretty cool for models to have association methods across tables. Add primary keys and use a VLOOKUP for the join.

The mentioned script ID MX4a...D1Xq cannot be found.

Is it dead?..

• Model#archive => gives row a strikethrough
• Model#restore() => removes strikethrough
• Model#isArchived() => boolean
• Model#emphasize() => makes row bold
• Model.setColor("color")
• Model.setBackgroundColor("color")

etc.

Should be able to call model.update({ foo: "bar", baz: null }) and model.destroy(). Both require models to track what row they're in.

To reproduce the behavior of a regular spreadsheet, Model#destroy should remove the entire row. This has the side-effect of changing the row number of every record with a greater row number.

Possible solutions:

1. Mark deleted record's row as "archived" instead of removing it. Bad: Sheet eventually becomes filled with junk**. Poor usability and performance.
2. Require a separate, unique, non-null column in every sheet to identify records after rows have been deleted. Bad: Too big a requirement from the user.
3. Keep every instantiated record in an array, sorted by row number. When a record is deleted, update the row number of all instantiated records that had a greater row number. Bad: Deletion becomes Log(n) + n / 2 operation. Log(n) at worst to find the first instance with a greater row number in the sorted array + n/2 on average to update those rows. Race condition if the user manually changes the sheet while Goodel is running.

Option 3 looks best.

** Not a bad idea to have an "archive" instance method. Opened #8.

https://spreadsheets.google.com/feeds/list/SHEET_ID/od6/public/full?alt=json returns a JSON string of a spreadsheet if the sheet is published. Relevant paths seems to be

root["feed"]["entry"][i]["title"]

and

root["feed"]["entry"][i]["content"]

Where i is the record's row index. The title key points to the value in row i, column A, content maps the names of the columns to the right of A with the corresponding cells in row i, under the format

"column_i_name: cell_i_value, column_i+1_name: cell_i+1_value"

Probably faster for read operations. Doesn't allow write operations.

• before_validation
• after_validation
• before_create
• after_create
• after_find
• after_initialize
• before_update
• after_update
• before_destroy
• after_destroy

etc.

Right now Godel expects the table to extend from cell A1. It should take take optional cell coordinates so that the user can set his/her table anywhere in the sheet.

Count the number of rows in a table using the COUNT formula if the table has over 20 rows.