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Fix new author creation error on socials #3578

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@mlbrgl mlbrgl commented May 6, 2024

fixes #3576

Both GdocBase instances and OwidGdocBaseInterface objects implement the same interface. However, GdocBase instances leak methods into loadGdocFromGdocBase, which override subclasses implementations.

With regards to overriding the GdocAuthor subclass with an instance of the parent class, three approaches have been reviewed:

  • (selected) lodash defaults (see description in code)
  • lodash omitBy (see description in code)
  • GdocBase.toJSON: addresses a problem with similar roots

This PR only fixes GdocAuthor, but we should expand this to all Gdoc* subclasses created by the loadGdocFromGdocBase factory function.

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mlbrgl commented May 7, 2024

@ikesau if you haven't started reviewing this, let me re-assign to @danyx23, as he ran into a similar issue I believe. I'll assign you the next one.

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The comments are a bit verbose in my humble o, but I can confirm this fixes the issue 🙂

tested by creating and saving an author page on master and this branch, inspected stored JSON in the DB

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ikesau commented May 8, 2024

If this is causing issues in other places, could you update all the other GdocBase inheritors to use defaults too? 🙂

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danyx23 commented May 9, 2024

I like the verbose comments :) - thanks for fixing this, Matthieu! I agree that it would be nice to do this for all classes already in this PR

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mlbrgl commented May 9, 2024

yes, I'm indeed using long comments as a warning and a deterrent: the longer the comment the more I'll think about changing this line in the future 😄

thank you both for the review, I've updated the other classes.

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… overridden in Object.assign (#3600)

*alternate solution to #3578, which had to be reverted because [this.content in GdocPost](https://github.com/owid/owid-grapher/blob/3691a52abfa41b34d7853df84df3329d80a9a187/db/model/Gdoc/GdocPost.ts#L34-L36) would  be honored by _.defaults as a property not to override, but would result in the `content` property not respecting `OwidGdocContent` at run time.*

### What changed?

This PR promotes GdocBase instance-level functions (e.g. `_enrichSubclassContent` as class methods.

### Why make this change?

GdocAuthor (but also GdocPost, GdocHomepage and Gdoc DataInsight) are created from a GdocBase instance (only when inserting a new Gdoc) using `Object.assign(gdocAuthor, gdocBase)`. This call lists all enumerable properties on GdocBase, including instance-level functions such as `_enrichSubclassContent`, and overrides the subclass version.

This leads to the subclass enrichment not being performed, and in the case of author creation, an error.

## Follow-up

Promoting instance-level functions to class methods on `GdocBase` is enough to solve this issue, but we should consider whether to apply the same treatment to the GdocBase subclasses too.
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