"date" inside an object in object column appears as and will be converted to string after clicking on dashboard

[refre5h]

I believe this happened in the new dashboard in parse.com, for such reason I didn't use the new dashboard in parse.com. Now I found that it's also happening here with parse-server and parse-dashboard.

• You're running version >=2.1.4 of Parse Server.
• You've searched through existing issues. Chances are that your issue has been reported or resolved before.

Environment Setup

"express": "~4.13.4",
"kerberos": "~0.0.x",
"parse": "^1.8.0",
"parse-server": "~2.2.2",
"parse-dashboard": "~1.0.9"
Heroku
mlab

Steps to reproduce

Step 1.
Create a object column in any class

Step 2.
Write an object that has date in it to this column. Below is the exact copy of one found in our db (mlab).

   "billedSessions": {
        "0": {
            "startTime": {
                "__type": "Date",
                "iso": "2016-04-13T05:10:50.261Z"
            },
            "endTime": {
                "__type": "Date",
                "iso": "2016-04-13T05:11:30.118Z"
            },
            "minutes": 1
        }
    },

Step 3.
Use the client to get this value. The startTime and endTime are both date object (for now).

Step 4.
Go to parse-dashboard and find this value. Note that the date in the object appears as a string instead.

{"0":{"startTime":"2016-04-13T05:10:50.261Z","endTime":"2016-04-13T05:11:30.118Z","minutes":1}}

Step 5.
Double click this value to enter edit state, but don't change anything.

Step 6.
Focus somewhere else to exit the edit state.

Step 7.
Go back to mlab, check the value again, it has beome:

    "billedSessions": {
        "0": {
            "startTime": "2016-04-13T05:10:50.261Z",
            "endTime": "2016-04-13T05:11:30.118Z",
            "minutes": 1
        }
    },

Step 8.
Use the client to get this value again, the type of startTime and endTime have both become string.

[drew-gross]

Yeah, our handling of non-raw-data for inner keys of objects isn't ideal. I'll see what we can do about this.

[Silkjaer]

Same goes for Date type in Config

[refre5h]

@Silkjaer A bit off topic, but is your dashboard Config working fine? It seems I can only add new params, which is saved successfully, but the Config page appears empty again if I refresh the dashboard.

[drew-gross]

It works for me. Can you try using the API console to see if you can see the config?

[refre5h]

@drew-gross Yes, using the API console can get the config.

GET
classes/_GlobalConfig
Yes or No on Use Master Key, doesn't matter

{
    "results": [
        {
            "objectId": "1",
            "updatedAt": "2016-03-25T00:53:42.065Z",
            "params": {
                "announcementVersion": 1,
                "minimumSupportBuild": 1,
                ... // along with many other params
            },
            "createdAt": "2015-12-03T21:12:45.035Z"
        }
    ]
}

But the Config page appears empty.

[refre5h]

I fixed the empty Config issue by adding javascriptKey in the parse-dashboard-config.json. For anyone who's having the same issue, hope this helps. And sorry for going off topic again.

[kcoop]

Any progress with this? It's causing a crashing bug if I don't tread very carefully. I imagine it could bite a lot of people.

[tigpt]

I would like to add that its not possible by parse-dashboard UI to set a date back to (undefined). would be great if i could remove a date by the dashboard.

[douglasmuraoka]

Fixed by #1223