validation of optional metadata fields with "schema": "subschema.json" #42
Description
ID3A is unable to submit records that have no value for "sample_crystallographic_phases" even though their schema has "optional": true for that key.
The error message upon submitting the record below contains "missing keys [sample_crystallographic_phases.name sample_crystallographic_phases.space_group sample_crystallographic_phases.unit_cell]".
Example record:
{
"facility": "CHESS",
"cycle": "2026-1",
"pi": "Lamberson",
"btr": "lamberso-4806-a",
"experimenters": "BeaverE, LambersonL, WalterG, ArringtonA, PollockM",
"beamline": [
"3A"
],
"staff_scientist": [
"ShanksKS",
"DasA"
],
"beamline_funding_partner": [
"CHEXS_NSF"
],
"cesr_conditions": [
"9x5_bunch_mode"
],
"insertion_device": [
"CCU"
],
"monochromator": [
"multilayer_30A"
],
"focusing": [
"None"
],
"beam_energy": 61.332,
"detectors": [
"dual_dexelas",
"other"
],
"experiment_type": [
"scattering/diffraction"
],
"technique": [
"powder_diffraction"
],
"in_situ": true,
"mechanical_load_frame": [
"Other"
],
"supplementary_technique": [
"other"
],
"alignment": true,
"data_location_raw": "/nfs/chess/id3a/2026-1/lamberso-4806-a/setup-1",
"data_location_meta": "/nfs/chess/aux/metadata/cycles/2026-1/id3a/lamberso-4806-a/setup-1",
"data_location_reduced": "/nfs/chess/aux/reduced_data/cycles/2026-1/id3a/lamberso-4806-a/setup-1",
"data_location_scratch": "/nfs/chess/scratch/cycles/2026-1/id3a/lamberso-4806-a/setup-1",
"data_location_beamtime_notes": "/nfs/chess/aux/cycles/2026-1/id3a/lamberso-4806-a/metadata/setup-1/setup-1_notebook.txt",
"mechanical_test": false,
"mechanical_test_type": [
""
],
"mechanical_grips": [
""
],
"calibration": false,
"sample_name": "setup-1",
"sample_common_name": "Ti64",
"sample_geometry": "RAMSII tensile sample",
"sample_mat_ped_heat_treatment": "None",
"sample_mat_ped_processing_route": "None"
}
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