(ifcb) admin: changing path on newly-created time series doesn't "take"

[joefutrelle]

This is another angular / restless caching issue where changes don't propagate to the database. This only seems to affect newly-created time series--exactly the ones where you would need to change the path. If you reload the admin page or return to it later, path changes "take".

[joefutrelle]

In both situations (editing path on a new object, editing path on one that existed at load time) the patch that is submitted to the server is correct.

[joefutrelle]

In the first case the response from the patch is wrong, and contains the old value.

[joefutrelle]

So the problem is likely on the server side and may have to do with session management. But the patch is handled automagically by restless, and so I'm not sure where to intervene.

[joefutrelle]

The patch request is wrong in the first case--it looks like there are two competing objects on the client side, and the wrong one is getting changed.

[joefutrelle]

As expected, if you hit reload when you're looking at a path edit that didn't take, the path will revert to the value that's in the database (the one that didn't get changed by the patch)

[joefutrelle]

If I add a second path to the newly-created object, it will not be submitted with the patch.

[joefutrelle]

This looks like it could potentially be related to a bug in restangular:

mgonto/restangular#713

I will try the suggested workaround.

[joefutrelle]

The suggested workaround worked.

[joefutrelle]

The workaround should be applied everywhere.