add fallback for metadata JSON parsing from pre-existing database #2173
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#2172
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This is NOT 100% safe and it assumes that pre-existing metadata that were serialized with the 'direct' format does not parse with the 'detailed' format. This is however a reasonable assumption to make provided that we only released that for a single week and the number of users was fairly limited.