Need insight on validation error

synthluvrlast year

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[11:49:39] ERROR (payload): ValidationError: The following field is invalid: items.page
    at create (/app/node_modules/payload/dist/collections/operations/create.js:145:19)
    at process.processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at async createHandler (/app/node_modules/payload/dist/collections/requestHandlers/create.js:14:21)

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  notchrlast year

  Good morning

  @1098559108212326500

  - happy to help debug, could you share your collection config?

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  synthluvrlast year

  import { CollectionConfig } from "payload/types";
  
  const Menus: CollectionConfig = {
    slug: "menus",
    admin: {
      defaultColumns: ["name", "items"],
      useAsTitle: "name",
    },
    access: {
      read: () => true,
    },
    fields: [
      {
        name: "name",
        type: "text",
        required: true,
        unique: true,
      },
      {
        name: "items",
        type: "array",
        required: true,
        maxRows: 8,
        fields: [
          {
            name: "name",
            type: "text",
            required: true,
          },
          {
            name: "page",
            type: "relationship",
            relationTo: "pages",
          },
          {
            name: "url",
            type: "text",
          },
        ],
      },
    ],
  };
  
  export default Menus;

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  notchrlast year

  hmm and pages is the slug of the other collection?

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  synthluvrlast year

  yes

  
  
  

  import { CollectionConfig } from "payload/types";
  import slug from "../fields/slug";
  
  const Pages: CollectionConfig = {
    slug: "pages",
    admin: {
      defaultColumns: ["title"],
      useAsTitle: "title",
    },
    access: {
      read: () => true,
    },
    fields: [
      {
        type: "tabs",
        tabs: [
          {
            label: "Content",
            fields: [
              {
                name: "title",
                type: "text",
              },
              {
                name: "content",
                type: "richText",
              },
            ],
          },
        ],
      },
      slug(),
      {
        name: "chatbox",
        type: "checkbox",
        defaultValue: true,
        admin: {
          position: "sidebar",
        },
      },
    ],
  };
  
  export default Pages;

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  notchrlast year

  I see in your screenshot that no page is selected

  
  
  

  Is this happening even when one is selected?

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  synthluvrlast year

  Yes. The validation is a bit random, I haven't been able to precisely reproduce. Doesn't seem to matter if I select a page or not
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  notchrlast year

  Hmm

  
  
  

  If you don't mind trying an idea out

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  synthluvrlast year

  I managed to create two menus without issue. I created a third menu and it started resulting in validation errors when I tried updating. If I try and create a fourth menu then validation seems to always fail

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  notchrlast year

  What if you change the name of your array field

  
  
  

  to something else

  
  
  

  change "items" to "tests" or something

  
  
  

  wondering if this has to do with some kind of remenants from an update to a field config in mongo

  
  
  

  by changing the name of the array field, i believe it is generating a new structure

  
  
  

  so that if there was a problematic overlap in field names from some kind of remnant

  
  
  

  this would bypass it

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  synthluvrlast year

  ok I'll try

  
  
  

  I'm getting a new error

  
  
  

  This seems to be an issue with how I'm running Payload. I'm trying to run Payload locally but connect to the production database

  
  
  

  Still getting the same error

  
  
  

  That's after renaming items to tests

  
  
  

  When I run it locally it works, but on production it keeps failing with the validation error

  
  
  

  I created a Menus2 collection and recreated everything successfully. It's just the original Menus collection that is having problems

  
  
  

  Very strange

  
  
  

  I dropped the menus collection entirely in MongoDB and recreated everything. Now it's working as expected. Deleting from Payload UI wasn't enough, I had to drop it from Mongo

  
  
  

  So I guess this is some sort of Payload bug where the data in mongo became invalid, but I cannot reproduce and don't know what caused it
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  notchrlast year

  @1098559108212326500
  
  

  Sprry I was dealing with a fire at work

  
  
  

  Yeah so DB migrations are not created in Payload

  
  
  

  And sometimes if you have an existing collection, or fields - and it gets redefined, structural issues can happen

  
  
  

  I'm not sure it's entirely related

  
  
  

  but at minimum, here are some notes I took on resolved a collection that was stuck

  
  
  https://gist.github.com/notchris/c5155073bbbb08a487b349c52f6823ae
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  synthluvrlast year

  I see. It's strange to me that the error was presented as a validation error. Seemingly everything was okay except when saving items