Merge pull request #1491 from microbiomedata/fix-allow-string-package…

…-name-on-create

Allow creating a submission with string or list of strings for `packageName`

nmdc_server/api.py

@@ -1178,6 +1178,14 @@ async def submit_metadata(
     db: Session = Depends(get_db),
     user: models.User = Depends(get_current_user),
 ):
+    # Old versions of the Field Notes app will continue to send a string for packageName
+    # for a little while. This code is to ease that transition and can be removed in the future.
+    if isinstance(body.metadata_submission.packageName, str):
+        if body.metadata_submission.packageName:
+            body.metadata_submission.packageName = [body.metadata_submission.packageName]
+        else:
+            body.metadata_submission.packageName = []
+
     submission = SubmissionMetadata(
         **body.dict(),
         author_orcid=user.orcid,

nmdc_server/schemas_submission.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 from datetime import datetime
 from enum import Enum
-from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional
+from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Union
 from uuid import UUID
 
 from pydantic import BaseModel, ConfigDict, ValidationInfo, field_validator
@@ -74,8 +74,8 @@ class ContextForm(BaseModel):
     unknownDoi: Optional[bool] = None
 
 
-class MetadataSubmissionRecord(BaseModel):
-    packageName: List[str]
+class MetadataSubmissionRecordCreate(BaseModel):
+    packageName: Union[str, List[str]]
     contextForm: ContextForm
     addressForm: AddressForm
     templates: List[str]
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ class MetadataSubmissionRecord(BaseModel):
     sampleData: Dict[str, List[Any]]
 
 
+class MetadataSubmissionRecord(MetadataSubmissionRecordCreate):
+    packageName: List[str]
+
+
 class PartialMetadataSubmissionRecord(BaseModel):
     packageName: Optional[List[str]] = None
     contextForm: Optional[ContextForm] = None
@@ -95,7 +99,7 @@ class PartialMetadataSubmissionRecord(BaseModel):
 
 
 class SubmissionMetadataSchemaCreate(BaseModel):
-    metadata_submission: MetadataSubmissionRecord
+    metadata_submission: MetadataSubmissionRecordCreate
     status: Optional[str] = None
     source_client: Optional[str] = None