Cannot select "No field type" in Data Referece

[joshuashort]

• Your browser and the version: Safari 10.1.1

• Your operating system: macOS 10.12.5

• Your databases: MariaDB

• Metabase version: 0.24.1

• Metabase hosting environment: Docker

• Metabase internal database: H2

• Repeatable steps to reproduce the issue
  -- Admin user at http://localhost:3000/reference/databases
  -- Select a database
  -- Click "Tables in this database"
  -- Select a table
  -- Click "Fields in this table"
  -- If "Field type" is already blank
  --- Selecting another type works
  --- Selecting "No field type" works
  -- If "Field type" isn't blank
  --- Selecting "No field type" leaves the previous field type instead of the expected behavior

[mazameli]

I was unable to reproduce this bug on either Safari or Chrome. It's possible it has been fixed since version 0.24.1.

[joshuashort]

Ok.. but this occurred on the official Docker image of Metabase. Was it not reproducible in that environment?

[joshuashort]

I can't see what I'm doing wrong -- I was using metabase/metabase:latest, and I tried removing the image, thinking it might be out of sync.. looking on hub.docker.com, :latest is still set to v0.24.1. I manually set to the latest docker hub tag (i.e. v0.24.2), and the issue is still there. Maybe I'm reporting this in the wrong place, and maybe it's actually a different problem?

[joshuashort]

Same problem with metabase/metabase-head:

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(can't select "No field type" on a field that already has a type in the Data Reference 'tab')

I'm just running docker run -d -p 3000:3000 --name metabase -v "$(pwd)"/data:/metabase-data -e MB_DB_FILE=/metabase-data/metabase.db metabase/metabase-head

[mazameli]

Cool, I'll reopen this, but I'll need some help from the other @metabase/core-developers to see if this is a Docker-specific or MariaDB-specific issue, because I'm still unable to reproduce this.

[joshuashort]

Thanks! I just noticed this issue (#5280) about the version on DockerHub. Time for me to dig a little more.

[Varunram]

@joshuashort @mazameli Turns out I am able to reproduce the error on OSX 10.12.5. I used the default Metabase h2 db and am running the Metabase Docker image on Docker Edge. Funny thing is even after changing the field type 2-3 times, it defaults to the previous value if we select "No Field Type" in the end.

[joshuashort]

I'm also getting this on Docker on Ubuntu 16.04.2 with Metabase v0.24.1 (haven't tried v0.24.2 or :head) on this server yet.

[salsakran]

@Varunram + @joshuashort can you check the JS and server logs for errors? Is the field being set or is there an error on that call? should be something like PUT /api/metadata/field/1111 or something similar.

[joshuashort]

@salsakran I don't see any browser console messages while trying to select "No field type"; and there's never a PUT call on the server log; the selection doesn't happen on the client side. I'll check in Chrome.. (edit: same behavior)

[Varunram]

@salsakran Nope, logs look clean on my side. What do you suspect the issue is though?

[ranquild]

Checked docker images for both v0.42 and v.043-rc1 and couldn't reproduce the issue.

[flamber]

This is not fixed:

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