feat(core): support ordered cube queries

[byjoh]

What changed

• add strict CubeQuery orderBy parsing and public types
• validate ordered members are selected and unique
• generate native ORDER BY using selected-output ordinals
• preserve legacy time ordering when orderBy is absent or empty
• add Rust and Python binding regression coverage

Why

Consumers need deterministic native ranking without SQL wrapper rewrites. Reporting-specific limit policy remains outside general Wren Core.

Validation

• Rust focused ordering/public API tests: 8 passed
• Python cube binding tests: 13 passed
• cargo fmt --check
• cargo clippy --all-targets --all-features -- -D warnings
• Ruff format/check
• git diff --check

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added cube query sorting by selected measures and dimensions in ascending or descending order.
  • Generated SQL now uses selected column positions for explicit ordering.
  • Preserved default ordering by the first time dimension when no custom sorting is provided.

• Bug Fixes

  • Added validation to reject unknown, duplicate, or improperly formatted sort criteria.
  • Queries without selectable members can no longer specify ordering.

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Walkthrough

Changes

Cube queries now support validated orderBy entries. SQL generation uses selected output ordinals with explicit directions. Default time-dimension ordering remains unchanged when orderBy is absent or empty. Public exports and integration tests cover the new API.

Cube ordering

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Ordering contract and validation core/wren-core/core/src/mdl/cube.rs, core/wren-core-py/tests/test_cube.py	Adds CubeOrderBy and SortDirection. Validation rejects invalid directions, unselected members, duplicate members, and queries without selectable members.
Ordinal SQL generation core/wren-core/core/src/mdl/cube.rs, core/wren-core-py/tests/test_cube.py	Maps selected members to output ordinals and emits explicit ORDER BY <ordinal> <direction> clauses. Legacy time-dimension ordering remains supported.
Public API exposure and integration core/wren-core/core/src/mdl/mod.rs, core/wren-core/core/tests/cube_public_api.rs	Re-exports the ordering types and verifies descending measure ordering in generated SQL.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 1beb3

The change is mergeable with owner awareness that the public query API may require a version bump and migration guidance to prevent downstream Rust consumers from breaking when constructing CubeQuery values.

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant CubeQuery
  participant QueryValidation
  participant cube_query_to_sql
  participant SQL
  CubeQuery->>QueryValidation: validate order_by entries
  QueryValidation-->>cube_query_to_sql: validated selected members
  cube_query_to_sql->>cube_query_to_sql: map members to output ordinals
  cube_query_to_sql-->>SQL: emit ORDER BY ordinal direction

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Suggested reviewers: goldmedal, ttw225

Poem

I’m a rabbit sorting rows in a neat little line,
With ordinals and directions aligned just fine.
Ascend or descend, the query knows where to go,
While time keeps its default flow.
Hop, hop—validated orders now show!

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: support for ordered cube queries.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains the behavior change, rationale, and validation results, but it does not include the template's duplicate-check section.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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core/wren-core/core/src/mdl/cube.rs (1)

18-33: 🗄️ Data Integrity & Integration | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Version the public API change

If wren-semantic-core 0.3.1 is already released, publish this change in 0.4.0 and document the required CubeQuery { order_by: ... } migration. #[serde(default)] does not prevent downstream Rust struct literals from failing to compile.

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In `@core/wren-core/core/src/mdl/cube.rs` around lines 18 - 33, Version the public
API change in CubeQuery: if wren-semantic-core 0.3.1 is already released, bump
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[goldmedal]

Thanks @byjoh, overall looks good but some comment.

I suggest adding Default derive to CubeQuery to avoid a breaking change for downstream:

-#[derive(Debug, Clone, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, Serialize, Deserialize)]
 #[serde(rename_all = "camelCase")]
 pub struct CubeQuery {

Every field already satisfies Default, so the derive is free. Callers — including this PR's new core/wren-core/core/tests/cube_public_api.rs — then become:

let query = CubeQuery {
    cube: "OrdersCube".to_string(),
    measures: vec!["revenue".to_string()],
    dimensions: vec!["status".to_string()],
    order_by: vec![CubeOrderBy {
        member: "revenue".to_string(),
        direction: SortDirection::Desc,
    }],
    ..Default::default()
};

This PR focuses on the core change but we should also deliver this change to each SDK. I filed the follow-up issue to track them:

• Cube orderBy is not exposed in the WASM TypeScript SDK types #2700 — the WASM TypeScript SDK's CubeQueryInput has no orderBy, so TS callers need a cast (it works at runtime; the binding is JSON-string based and passes it through).
• Cube orderBy is not reachable from the wren CLI or the MCP query_cube tool #2701 — the wren CLI and the MCP query_cube tool cannot reach ordering at all, which is why agent-driven "top N" is currently unordered. This PR is the enabling half of that fix.