view service returning an empty string rather than HTML

[yvanlebras]

Following metacatui issue NCEAS/metacatui#2561 answsered by @robyngit , I open here an issue as it seems that there is issues on DataONE serach catalog as our PNDB catalog (maybe others?)

Describe the bug
Previously, when going on a catalog data page, there was a nice diplay of the metadata content, organized in sections, for example each entity was separately displayed with relative content in it (attributes listing and relatevie atribute information) but now, it seems we have somethnig like unorganized lists of elements. This is the case in our French catalog but seems to be the same on search.dataone catalog also.

To Reproduce

1. Go here and see formatting (you can also go here
2. Scroll down to search entity field...
3. There is no entity field (data table or other)

Expected behavior
A clear and nice section to describe each entity content with list of each attribute and for each, detailled related to it.

Like in this screenshot:

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: Windows
• Browser Firefox

[taojing2002]

Hi Yvan: The two pages in the tickets are clearly rendered only by the solr index rather than the combination of the metadata object and the solr index. For the search.dataone.org, it is a known bug in the dataone theme in metacatui. But I can't find the ticket now. Robyn, would you please shed some light on this? It seems your theme has the same problem now. Thanks, Jing

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On Wed, Nov 6, 2024 at 1:19 PM Yvan Le Bras ***@***.***> wrote: Following metacatui issue NCEAS/metacatui#2561 <NCEAS/metacatui#2561> answsered by @robyngit <https://github.com/robyngit> , I open here an issue as it seems that there is issues on DataONE serach catalog as our PNDB catalog (maybe others?) *Describe the bug* Previously, when going on a catalog data page, there was a nice diplay of the metadata content, organized in sections, for example each entity was separately displayed with relative content in it (attributes listing and relatevie atribute information) but now, it seems we have somethnig like unorganized lists of elements. This is the case in our French catalog but seems to be the same on search.dataone catalog also. *To Reproduce* 1. Go here <https://search.dataone.org/view/https%3A%2F%2Fpasta.lternet.edu%2Fpackage%2Fmetadata%2Feml%2Fedi%2F876%2F8> and see formatting (you can also go here <https://data.pndb.fr/view/doi%3A10.48502%2F8bb5-pk85> 2. Scroll down to search entity field... 3. There is no entity field (data table or other) *Expected behavior* A clear and nice section to describe each entity content with list of each attribute and for each, detailled related to it. Like in this screenshot: Image3.png (view on web) <https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/93475915-d772-4c4d-988b-d6373650bb13> *Desktop (please complete the following information):* - OS: Windows - Browser Firefox — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2010>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB5QQDAQDPLPGZNJJZWJO7TZ7KBWNAVCNFSM6AAAAABRJXT3S2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43ASLTON2WKOZSGYZTSMRVGI3DAMI> . You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[robyngit]

@taojing2002 the view is being rendered from the index because the view service isn't returning anything for this dataset for some reason: https://search.dataone.org/cn/v2/views/metacatui/https%3A%2F%2Fpasta.lternet.edu%2Fpackage%2Fmetadata%2Feml%2Fedi%2F876%2F8

Note that the problem is the same on the member node page, it's not related to the DataONE theme: https://data.pndb.fr/view/doi%3A10.48502%2F8bb5-pk85

[taojing2002]

I see. I need to take a look. Thanks, Robyn! Jing

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On Thu, Nov 7, 2024 at 5:40 AM Robyn ***@***.***> wrote: @taojing2002 <https://github.com/taojing2002> the view is being rendered from the index because the view service isn't returning anything for this dataset for some reason: https://search.dataone.org/cn/v2/views/metacatui/https%3A%2F%2Fpasta.lternet.edu%2Fpackage%2Fmetadata%2Feml%2Fedi%2F876%2F8 Note that the problem is the same on the member node page, it's not related to the DataONE theme: https://data.pndb.fr/view/doi%3A10.48502%2F8bb5-pk85 — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#2010 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AB5QQDDTJYK3ZRV26JLI4K3Z7NUVNAVCNFSM6AAAAABRJXT3S2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDINRSGI3DQNZWG4> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[taojing2002]

@yvanlebras @robyngit I fixed the issue that the view service returning an empty string on search.dataone.org. The view service needs to read some web pages of the Metacat instance. However, the root certificate of the ca authority that signs our server wasn't in the java keystore. So the view service couldn't read those web pages successfully and returned an empty string. After I added the root certificate into the java keystore of the Metacat instance, it works well:

https://search.dataone.org/view/https%3A%2F%2Fpasta.lternet.edu%2Fpackage%2Fmetadata%2Feml%2Fedi%2F876%2F8

So I am wondering if PNDB has the same issue.