From 2ecedcea7c90b9130ff0fb7ecf33f027b34d7ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andrew Kingston <andrew@kingston.dev>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2024 16:34:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Stringify non strings when pasting into text cells

---
 .../src/components/grid/stores/rows.js             | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/stores/rows.js b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/stores/rows.js
index bfd91fb237..fb7a487c8e 100644
--- a/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/stores/rows.js
+++ b/packages/frontend-core/src/components/grid/stores/rows.js
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { getCellID, parseCellID } from "../lib/utils"
 import { tick } from "svelte"
 import { Helpers } from "@budibase/bbui"
 import { sleep } from "../../../utils/utils"
+import { FieldType } from "@budibase/types"
 
 export const createStores = () => {
   const rows = writable([])
@@ -421,8 +422,21 @@ export const createActions = context => {
   // valid pending change was made or not
   const stashRowChanges = (rowId, changes) => {
     const $rowLookupMap = get(rowLookupMap)
+    const $columnLookupMap = get(columnLookupMap)
     const row = $rowLookupMap[rowId]
 
+    // Coerce some values into the correct types
+    for (let column of Object.keys(changes || {})) {
+      const type = $columnLookupMap[column]?.schema?.type
+
+      // Stringify objects
+      if (type === FieldType.STRING || type == FieldType.LONGFORM) {
+        if (changes[column] != null && typeof changes[column] !== "string") {
+          changes[column] = JSON.stringify(changes[column])
+        }
+      }
+    }
+
     // Check this is a valid change
     if (!row || !changesAreValid(row, changes)) {
       return false