MongoDB storage corruption

[wafschneider]

Saving a record from the profile editor results corruption of the record when using a MongoDB storage backend. Instead of saving the record with the json field intact, the json field is serialized to an array of characters:

{
    "id": "ba393a16-9caf-4833-bfdc-0f7780e6e161",
    "name": "BIBFRAME 2.0 Note",
    "configType": "profile",
    "json": {
        "0": "{",
        "1": "\"",
        "2": "P",
        "3": "r",
        "4": "o",
        "5": "f",
        "6": "i",
        "7": "l",
        "8": "e",
        "9": "\"",
        "10": ":",

This makes MongoDB storage unusable at present, except as read-only.

[wafschneider]

Updating a record in the profile editor results in a request like this to /verso/api/configs/<recordID>/replace:

{
  "id": "beb3df1d-2e81-4630-8974-ef4a9ed6c6e3",
  "name": "BIBFRAME 2.0 Admin Metadata",
  "configType": "profile",
  "json": "{\"Profile\":{\"resourceTemplates\":[{\"propertyTemplates\":[{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"true\",\"type\":\"literal\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[],\"valueDataType\":{\"remark\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bflc/catalogerId\"},\"defaults\":[]},\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bflc/catalogerId\",\"propertyLabel\":\"Your cataloger ID (Windows ID)\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"type\":\"literal\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeLabelHint\":\"Date or date and time on which the original metadata first created.\"},\"editable\":\"false\",\"defaults\":[]},\"propertyLabel\":\"Creation date\",\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/creationDate\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"type\":\"literal\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeLabelHint\":\"Date or date and time on which the metadata was modified.\"},\"editable\":\"false\",\"defaults\":[]},\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/changeDate\",\"propertyLabel\":\"Change date\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"type\":\"resource\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations\"],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/Agent\"},\"editable\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"defaults\":[{\"defaultURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/dlc\",\"defaultLiteral\":\"DLC\"}]},\"propertyLabel\":\"Assigning agency\",\"remark\":\"\",\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/source\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"true\",\"type\":\"resource\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/marcauthen\"],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/DescriptionAuthentication\"},\"defaults\":[{\"defaultURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/marcauthen/pcc\",\"defaultLiteral\":\"pcc\"}]},\"propertyLabel\":\"Description authentication\",\"remark\":\"\",\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/descriptionAuthentication\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"type\":\"resource\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/descriptionConventions\"],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/DescriptionConventions\"},\"editable\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"defaults\":[{\"defaultURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/descriptionConventions/rda\",\"defaultLiteral\":\"rda\"}]},\"propertyLabel\":\"Description conventions\",\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/descriptionConventions\",\"remark\":\"\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"type\":\"resource\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/languages\"],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/Language\",\"dataTypeLabel\":\"\"},\"editable\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"defaults\":[{\"defaultURI\":\"\",\"defaultLiteral\":\"eng\"}]},\"propertyLabel\":\"Description language\",\"remark\":\"\",\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/descriptionLanguage\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"true\",\"type\":\"literal\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/Agent\"},\"editable\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"true\",\"defaults\":[{\"defaultURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/organizations/dlc\",\"defaultLiteral\":\"DLC\"}]},\"propertyLabel\":\"Description modifier\",\"remark\":\"\",\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/descriptionModifier\"},{\"mandatory\":\"true\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"type\":\"resource\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[\"http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/menclvl\"],\"valueDataType\":{\"dataTypeURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bflc/EncodingLevel\"},\"defaults\":[]},\"propertyLabel\":\"Encoding level\",\"remark\":\"\",\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bflc/encodingLevel\"},{\"mandatory\":\"false\",\"repeatable\":\"false\",\"type\":\"literal\",\"resourceTemplates\":[],\"valueConstraint\":{\"valueTemplateRefs\":[],\"useValuesFrom\":[],\"valueDataType\":{},\"editable\":\"false\",\"defaults\":[]},\"propertyURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bflc/profile\",\"propertyLabel\":\"Profile\",\"remark\":\"The profile code for the resource\"}],\"id\":\"profile:bf2:AdminMetadata\",\"resourceURI\":\"http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe/AdminMetadata\",\"resourceLabel\":\"BIBFRAME 2.0 Admin Metadata\"}],\"id\":\"profile:bf2:AdminMetadata\",\"title\":\"BIBFRAME 2.0 Admin Metadata\",\"description\":\"Metadata for BIBFRAME Resources test\",\"date\":\"2017-05-20\",\"contact\":\"NDMSO\"}}",
  "metadata": {
    "createDate": "2018-09-17T17:25:46.180Z",
    "updateDate": "2018-09-17T18:05:17.223Z",
    "updateUser": null
  }
}

Note that the json field is encoded as a string rather than as an object. If you encode it as an object, it is handled correctly by the storage backend.

[wafschneider]

Closing the issue here, as it is actually a profile editor bug. See lcnetdev/profile-edit#31