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Cannot have a DataSchema as a thing property

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
fastapi, python
Domain
api, backend

Research direction

Start by reproducing the issue with a thing property that returns a DataSchema, as described in the report, then trace where the recursion occurs. Done means the DataSchema can be returned as a thing property without a recursion loop.

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Description

Describe the bug
If we want to describe "this internal object (which isn't a thing) has setting in this form" and pass it to the UI it makes sense to do this as a dataschema, this is not something we can do with a thing description as the object may change. Such as for background detect on the microscope when we change to a different background detector with different settings.

If a Thing Property tries to return a DataSchema then this causes a recursion loop.

To Reproduce
Create a thing property that returns a DataSchema.

Expected behaviour
No recursion

System:

  • OS: OpenFlexure Raspian (v3-alpha1)
  • Python version 3.11
  • Version: 0.0.11
Dominant language
Python
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