"NoMethodError: undefined method `[]' for nil:NilClass" in media_info.rb:22

[christiangenco]

I'm having the hardest time tracking down a bug in using this library for save_url and save_url_check_job_status.

I can't recreate it, but while it's running in background jobs (with sidekiq), save_url_check_job_status will throw NoMethodError: undefined method '[]' for nil:NilClass tracing to media_info.rb:22:

dropbox_api/lib/dropbox_api/metadata/media_info.rb

Line 22 in 163f3a5

tag = data['metadata']['.tag']

So sometimes when save_url_check_job_status is called, data['metadata'] is nil. Is this a problem with this library, or could it be that I'm calling it in a strange way?

[Jesus]

Hi,

thanks for reporting this. The issue has been fixed and I'll release a new gem version today.

It was difficult to track down because you had to catch it in the short lapse of time Dropbox needs to generate the media metadata.

The problem was that we were getting a pending tag as metadata when it hadn't been generated yet. This is specified in the documentation so it's a pity we missed it when we implemented this.

Here's the test that would catch this problem: https://github.com/Jesus/dropbox_api/blob/master/spec/metadata/file_spec.rb#L42-L55

[christiangenco]

Bless you ❤️