member.interests should return [] not null.

[theClarkSell]

Currently members.member.interests returns null if there are no interests. I'm guessing that's because interests might not have ever been set for that user. It would be nice if that defaulted to an empty array rather than null.

[brettski]

Interests is an array field in Firestore. Most users don't have this field so it will return as null/undefined.

I am not sure on the best approach here. Some initial thoughts:

1. update all records to include an interests field
2. update cloudFirestore queries to include an interests field if not present.

• this seems a bit error prone and would need to be remembered in future updates

1. update resolver to handle a missing interests field.

• this feels wrong like the last one

[brettski]

The more I thought about this, the data should be fixed. A two+ step process is in place.

1. Update members api to ensure the interests field is always written. If there is no value set, [] will be written.
2. Run a query to update all current records where interests doesn't exist or is set to null.
3. update that-website to correctly write value to database. (less important due to 1 being in place)

[brettski]

This has been corrected. As per my last comment:

1. pr merged which ensure that the interests field exists and is an array value.
2. member records updated so all have an interests field and that field has an array value
3. issue has been created in that-website for it writing null to interest field Interests saved as null if no values provided. Should save as [] that-website#595