Users wants to open a local Realm file with server-side sync history

[kraenhansen]

Describe the bug
A user cannot open a local Realm file copied from a Realm Object Servers data/sync/user_data directory. There used to be only Realms without history and Realms with client-side history. Now there is also a type of Realms with server-side history, which is why we havn't seen this before.

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install and start ROS
2. Open any Realm file from the data/sync/user_data directory as a local file.
3. 💥

Expected behavior
It is expected that any local Realm-file can be opened with Realm Studio.

Screenshots
See #392 (comment)

Versions:

• OS: N/A
• Studio Version 2.4.0
• Realm Object Server version 2+

Additional context
This issue could easily be confused with opening a Realm file that has client-side history: #392

[roberhofer]

Since this came up in the context of customer (was confused and thought that server realm was broken) I put this higher up in prioritization.

[kraenhansen]

Studio needs an a change in Realm JS for this to happen.

[joshuapinter]

Hey Guys, I'm trying to convert from a self-hosted Realm Server to Realm Cloud but want to migrate our data and ran into this. What's the workaround with this so we can at the very least see our data in the .realm file?

Thanks!

[roberhofer]

@joshuapinter : we should be able to help with this. Would you mind opening a ticket in our support forum, e.g. https://support.realm.io/ ? Please provide available details for your cloud account as available.

[joshuapinter]

Thanks, @roberhofer. I created Support Ticket #2499 Unreachable User Data on Realm Object Server 2.4.2. here:

https://support.realm.io/support/tickets/2499

[RealmBot]

➤ Brian Munkholm commented:

We wont focus on server side use cases for Studio given the migration to MongoDB Realm.