🐛 Missing "Author" Field in Proposal Discussion Metadata Prevents Governance Actions from Syncing to DBSync

[kneerose]

Area

Proposal Pillar

Domain

preview.gov.tools

Which wallet were you using?

No response

Context

I attempted to retrieve metadata details of governance actions from DBSync, but most newly created governance actions return null for metadata. The root cause appears to be the missing "author" field in the proposal discussion metadata format.

To confirm this, I created two Info proposals—one with the author field and one without it.

Governance Action with the Author Field

• Governance Action Anchor Data:

  • govtool.cardanoapi.io → Link

• DBSync Output:
  

---

Governance Action Without the Author Field

• Governance Action Anchor Data:

  • govtool.cardanoapi.io → Link

• DBSync Output:
  

---

Issue Observed on Mainnet

This issue also occurs on Mainnet when proposals are submitted via proposal discussion.

Example:

• Proposal

This governance action's metadata is not found in Mainnet DBSync.

• Anchor URL:
  Link

Steps to reproduce

1. Connect to the wallet.
2. Create a proposal.
3. Click on Submit proposal.
4. Download the metadata.
5. Check the author field in the metadata format.

Actual behavior

• The author field is missing in the proposal discussion metadata format.

• As a result, the proposal metadata is not recorded in DBSync.

Expected behavior

• The author field should be included in the proposal discussion metadata format.
• The created proposal’s metadata should be correctly recorded in DBSync’s off-chain data.

[kneerose]

Fetch Error in DBSync

Error Offchain Voting Anchor: JSON decode error from when fetching metadata from Just https://metadata-govtool.cardanoapi.io/data/testInfoWithoutAuthor resulted in:  
"Error in $: key \"authors\" not found, CIP-100:Error in $: key \"authors\" not found"

This suggests that the authors field is required in DBSync. However, @MSzalowski previously mentioned that the authors field is optional. Does this indicate a potential bug in DBSync?

CC: @bosko-m

[bosko-m]

Good catch @kneerose . Is this for you @MSzalowski or for @nebojsact ?