Metadata as class<str> after saving empty metadata

[PolinaBevad]

I’m not sure if it is a bug or not: if I save empty metadata to an object (and metadata’s type is dict), then next time when I try to get this metadata, it’s type will be str. Code to reproduce:

folder = Object.retrieve(some_id_here) 
metadata = {}
print(type(metadata)) # <class 'dict'>
folder.metadata = metadata
folder.save() 
metadata = folder.metadata
print(type(metadata))  # <class 'str'>

Found this when was copying metadata from parent folder and it was empty.

[jsh2134]

Yes this is an API bug. We use a JSON Field for the metadata and technically "" is valid JSON. It should be fixed to return {}

[davecap]

Confirming that this has been fixed in the API. The API now returns {} which is loaded by the client as type SolveObject.