Fix issue with authors

CITATION.cff

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ authors:
   affiliation: University of Glasgow
   orcid: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4424-9890
 
-date-released: 2022-08-25
+date-released: 2023-09-07
 keywords:
 - FAIR Data Pipeline
 - FAIR
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ license: BSD-2-Clause
 message: If you use this software, please cite it using these metadata.
 repository-code: https://github.com/FAIRDataPipeline/FAIR-CLI/
 title: "The FAIR Data Pipeline command line tool"
-version: 0.9.3
+version: 0.9.4

fair/registry/sync.py

@@ -337,21 +337,16 @@ def _get_new_url(
         _tmp_obj = fdp_req.url_get(object_url, origin_token)
         if "authors" in _tmp_obj:
             for _author_url in _tmp_obj["authors"]:
-                _new_author_urls.append(sync_dependency_chain(
-                    _author_url,
-                    dest_uri,
+                _new_author_urls.append(get_new_author_url(
                     origin_uri,
-                    dest_token,
                     origin_token,
-                    local_data_store,
-                    public,
-                    remote_author_url
+                    dest_uri,
+                    dest_token,
+                    _author_url
                 ))
-        for _new_author_dict in _new_author_urls:
-            for _new_author_url in _new_author_dict.values():
-                if "author" in _new_author_url:
-                    _new_obj_data["authors"].append(_new_author_url)
-                    _filters["authors"].append(fdp_req.get_obj_id_from_url(_new_author_url))
+        for _new_author_url in _new_author_urls:
+            _new_obj_data["authors"].append(_new_author_url)
+            _filters["authors"].append(fdp_req.get_obj_id_from_url(_new_author_url))
 
     if _obj_type == "author":
         if "identifier" in _new_obj_data:
@@ -420,6 +415,32 @@ def sync_user_author(
     current_user_url = current_user[0]['url']
     fdp_store.store_user_author(dest_uri, dest_token, current_user_url, author_url)
 
+def get_new_author_url(
+    origin_uri: str,
+    origin_token: str,
+    dest_uri: str,
+    dest_token: str,
+    author_url: str
+) -> None:
+    _author_data = fdp_req.url_get(author_url, token=origin_token)
+    _writable_fields = fdp_req.get_writable_fields(
+                origin_uri, "author", origin_token
+            )
+    _writable_data = {
+            k: v
+            for k, v in _author_data.items()
+            if k in _writable_fields
+        }
+    return _get_new_url(
+        origin_uri,
+        origin_token,
+        dest_uri,
+        dest_token,
+        author_url,
+        {},
+        _writable_data
+    )
+
 def sync_data_products(
     origin_uri: str,
     dest_uri: str,

pyproject.toml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ classifiers = [
 ]
 description = "Synchronization interface for the SCRC FAIR Data Pipeline registry"
 name = "fair-cli"
-version = "0.9.3"
+version = "0.9.4"
 
 homepage = "https://www.fairdatapipeline.org/"