Let a project record its own attributes on stations and device types by mihow · Pull Request #1411 · RolnickLab/antenna

mihow · 2026-09-08T04:36:06Z

Summary

Projects record things about their stations that Antenna has no field for: the habitat a trap sits in, how high the camera is mounted, which power supply is on site, a partner's own identifier for the box. Today that either lives in someone's spreadsheet or gets squeezed into the description, where nothing can query it and nothing can publish it.

Stations and device types now each carry a metadata field: a free-form JSON object that a project fills with whatever it needs, edited in the same dialog as the name and description. The shape is fixed — it must be an object of names and values — and the contents are deliberately not, because the attributes worth recording differ from one project to the next and a fixed list would be wrong for almost everyone.

Requiring an object rather than accepting any JSON is what makes the field useful later rather than merely storable: keys are what PostgreSQL can index and look up, and what a published term can map onto. A bare array or string carries no field names, so neither is possible. Anyone who needs ordered pairs can hold them under a key, which keeps the outer shape queryable and loses nothing.

This is #507. It does not close #307, which asks for more: a few standard fields the interface can filter and chart on, EML on sites, and tagging as an alternative route. Those remain open, and this makes the examples in that thread recordable in the meantime.

List of Changes

Change (what it does)	How	Notes
A project can record its own attributes on a station or a device type	`metadata` JSON column on `Deployment` and `Device`, built by one shared `metadata_field()` factory	One factory so the two columns cannot drift apart in default, validation or help text
Metadata has to be an object, and the error says what arrived instead	`validate_metadata_object`, with a table of JSON type names so the message reads "not an array" rather than "not a list"	A model validator, so it governs the API, the Django admin and `full_clean()` alike
An operator edits metadata where they edit everything else	JSON text area on the station form and the device-type form, with inline validation	Invalid JSON, and valid JSON that is not an object, both disable Save on the keystroke that broke it
A record with no metadata reads as empty rather than missing	`default=dict`, `null=False`; the form sends `{}` for an empty field	Pinned three ways: a new record, the API response, and a database-level refusal of null
Writing metadata needs no new permission	Both viewsets already use `ObjectPermission`	Writing metadata requires the same `update_deployment` / `update_device` as renaming the record

Worth a reviewer's attention

The station form is multipart/form-data, so metadata arrives as text. That endpoint carries a cover image, and multipart has no JSON types, so the form sends metadata as a string of JSON. It becomes an object because the serializer field is the plain serializers.JSONField that ModelSerializer generates: for a multipart request DRF detects HTML input and runs json.loads before validation. Declaring the field explicitly is safe only as serializers.JSONField and silently wrong as anything else — a CharField or a subclass overriding get_value would store '{"habitat": "forest"}' as text, report success, and surface only when someone queries the JSON or exports it. The field is therefore left auto-generated on purpose, and a test asserts the type of the stored value rather than its content, because an equality check can pass against a stored string.

The shape rule is enforced on the server, not only in the form. The Django admin, the browsable API and any future uploader bypass the form entirely, so both write paths are tested against the same five shapes — an array, a string, a number, true and null — plus text that is not JSON at all.

Testing

ami.main.tests.TestConfigurableMetadataFields — 7 tests: an object round-tripping on both records, every non-object shape refused on the JSON path and again on the form-encoded path, a form-encoded submission stored as an object rather than a string, the default being an empty object, and writing requiring the record's own update permission. Run together with the four neighbouring permission classes to confirm nothing around them moved: 37 tests, all passing.

Frontend: tsc --noEmit clean, Prettier clean, and the Jest suite green (12 suites, 60 tests, 8 of them new for the metadata helpers).

Not built here

No read-only display of metadata outside the edit dialogs. Putting raw JSON in a table column has several defensible answers — truncate, show a key count, show a badge — and choosing one silently seemed worse than leaving the decision visible.
No syntax highlighting. Every route to it adds a code-editor dependency to a bundle that has none, and the ticket marks it optional. The field uses a monospace face and inline errors instead; one component would change if the dependency is later judged worthwhile.
No opinion about what belongs inside the object. Which attributes eventually graduate into native fields the interface can filter and chart on is Allow meta data to be configured for Deployments #307's question, and a standards one rather than an engineering one.
The two forms report errors on different schedules — the station form on blur, the device-type form as you type — because each field keeps the validation mode of the fields around it. Both disable Save on the keystroke that broke the JSON.

Note for whoever merges

This adds migration 0096, and so do two other open pull requests (#1408 and #1367). Whichever lands second needs its migration renumbered. #1408 also adds fields to Deployment, so the model file may merge cleanly while the migration still needs renaming — a clean merge that does not run.

Closes #507. Refs #307.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

New Features
- Added configurable JSON metadata fields for deployments and devices.
- Metadata can be edited through deployment and device forms using a validated JSON text field.
- Metadata is included in API responses and saved with the associated record.
- Added validation for malformed JSON and values that are not JSON objects.
Documentation
- Added planning documentation covering metadata support and form integration.

Introduce a form field that accepts a free-form JSON object and tells whoever is filling it in, next to the box, when what they have typed is not one. Nothing uses the field yet; the station and device-type forms adopt it in the following commit. The field holds the JSON text exactly as it was typed rather than a parsed object. That is what keeps a half-finished edit on screen while the inline error explains the problem, and it leaves the author's own key order and indentation alone. Three helpers in utils/fieldProcessors.ts handle the round trip, alongside the existing integer-list trio that solves the same "structured value edited as text" problem: formatMetadata renders a stored object for the field, parseMetadata turns the text back into the object the API stores, and validateMetadata is the rule that rejects text which does not parse or which parses into something other than an object. Syntax highlighting, which the ticket offers as optional, is left out. Every route to it means adding a code-editor dependency to a bundle that has none, so the field uses a monospace face and inline errors instead. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Antenna models natively only the attributes every project shares, so there has been nowhere to record the height a camera was mounted at, a description of the habitat, or the make of a light except as free text in the description, where nothing can be searched or exported. Deployments and device types now each carry a metadata field: an open JSON object that whoever may already edit the record can write whatever their project needs into. The contents are deliberately unconstrained, because the attributes worth recording differ from one project to the next. The shape is not. The value must be a JSON object of key/value pairs, and an array, string, number or boolean is refused, because a value with no field names in it leaves a Postgres key lookup nothing to match and a published term nothing to map onto. Storing one would quietly produce rows that no later feature could read. This is why the field is a plain JSONField with a single shape check rather than the SchemaField pattern that Project.feature_flags uses. Feature flags are a closed set of keys the code itself reads by name; metadata keys belong to the operator instead. Both models build the column through one shared helper so they cannot drift apart in their default, their validation or the help text an API client reads. Django's model validators are copied onto the serializer field by DRF, so that single validator governs the API, the Django admin and any direct full_clean() alike. The field is exposed on the deployment detail endpoint rather than the list, because the detail serializer is the write path and a field with no size limit does not belong in every row of the stations list. Devices have a single serializer and no such split. No new permission is introduced: both viewsets already use ObjectPermission, so writing metadata requires exactly the update_deployment or update_device permission that renaming the record requires, and the tests pin that rather than assume it. Refs #507. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

Records what the metadata field on stations and device types is for, why its shape is validated while its contents are not, and why it is a plain JSONField rather than the schema-backed field that Project.feature_flags uses, so that a later session does not have to rediscover the reasoning from the diff. Also states what was deliberately left undone, since each piece is easy to mistake for an oversight: the frontend text field that issue #507 also asks for, a GIN index, the GBIF term mapping itself, and a metadata column on Site. The last of these is where issue #307 still has something to say, because it argues for describing sites with Ecological Metadata Language, which is a schema question rather than a free-form one. Refs #507, #307. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A project can now keep properties of a station or a device type that the platform has no field of its own for — the height of a mast, the wattage of a lamp, a local site code — by entering them as JSON on the record's form. The box shows whatever is already stored, and a record whose JSON is broken cannot be saved. The station form gains the field in its General section. It sends the object as JSON text, because that form posts a multipart request in order to carry the cover image and multipart can only carry text; Django REST Framework parses the string back into an object for a JSON field. Device types move off the shared name-and-description form onto one of their own, registered in customFormMap beside the storage and capture-set forms, and send the object through the existing customFields path, which already takes objects. A Device model carries the getter that reads the stored value, so Entity — the base class that sites, exports and processing services share — stays free of a field only device types have. Refs #507 Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

A station is edited through a form submitted as multipart, because the record carries a cover image, and multipart has no JSON types. Metadata therefore reaches the server as a string containing JSON rather than as an object. That path was untested, and it is the one where a mistake hides: storing the string verbatim looks like a success at the time and surfaces much later, when something reads the row back and finds text where a mapping should be. Two tests close it. The first submits a station update as multipart with metadata as JSON text and asserts the stored value is a dict, by type rather than by value, so that a stored string cannot pass. The second holds the same path to the shape rule, covering an array, a quoted string, a number, true, null, and text that is not JSON at all, then confirms the record was left untouched. Those five shapes are already refused by the station form before they leave the browser. They are checked against the endpoint because the Django admin, the browsable API and any other client bypass that form, so the validator on the model is what makes "an object, or nothing" an invariant rather than one client's good manners. For the same reason the rejection message is now pinned to name the expected shape, since the browsable API and the admin show it to a person with no form in front of them. The field stays auto-generated from the model rather than declared, which is what makes the form-encoded path work: ModelSerializer builds a plain serializers.JSONField, and that class marks a value taken from form input as a JSON string and parses it. A CharField, or any subclass with its own get_value, would take the plain-string branch and store the text instead. Refs #507. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

…ision Null was refused on both write paths already, but only incidentally: the JSON case sat inside the test about default values and the form-encoded case inside the test about shapes, so neither said that null is the interesting one. It is, because a client serialiser emitting None for an absent value is the likeliest way a null reaches this field by accident, and because the two paths refuse it by different mechanisms. Sent as JSON it never reaches the shape check, since the field is not nullable and the framework stops it first. Sent through the station form it arrives as the text null, is parsed to None, and the shape check is what refuses it. A change to either mechanism would leave the other still looking correct, so a dedicated test now pins both. The planning doc gains two things a later reader would otherwise have to reconstruct. First, that refusing an array is a decision rather than an oversight: the discussion on issue #307 floated an array of title/value pairs, and an object is required instead because it gives Postgres a key to index and a published term something to map onto, while an array of pairs gives neither without a private convention. Ordered pairs remain expressible under a key, so nothing is lost. Second, that three open branches each number their migration 0096, so whichever lands after the first has to be renumbered onto the new head. Renumbering ahead of time would only move the collision. The heartbeat branch also adds columns to Deployment, so it may merge cleanly against this file while still needing that rename, which is worth saying out loud because a clean merge is not evidence of a correct one here. Refs #507, #307. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>

The API and the form that edits it were built in parallel against an agreed contract: a free-form JSON object named metadata on stations and device types, required to be an object and otherwise unconstrained. This merge puts them in one place so the field can be reviewed as the single feature it is. Both halves indexed their own planning document; the index keeps both lines. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_019Ej7dJGDozxeVg6AhfTkYo

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Walkthrough

The change adds validated JSON-object metadata fields to deployments and devices. It exposes metadata through serializers, adds API coverage, and provides deployment and device-type form support with shared JSON formatting, parsing, and validation.

Changes

Configurable metadata fields

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Backend metadata contract `ami/main/models.py`, `ami/main/migrations/0096_deployment_metadata_device_metadata.py`, `ami/main/api/serializers.py`, `ami/main/tests.py`, `docs/claude/...`	Adds validated JSON-object fields to `Deployment` and `Device`, persists them through migration `0096`, exposes them through serializers, and tests API validation, persistence, defaults, null handling, and permissions.
Shared metadata field behavior `ui/src/components/form/metadata-field.tsx`, `ui/src/utils/fieldProcessors.ts`, `ui/src/utils/fieldProcessors.test.ts`, `ui/src/utils/language.ts`, `docs/claude/planning/2026-09-07-configurable-metadata-fields-ui.md`	Adds the shared metadata text field, JSON formatting/parsing/validation helpers, translated messages, and helper tests.
Deployment metadata form integration `ui/src/data-services/models/deployment-details.ts`, `ui/src/data-services/hooks/deployments/utils.ts`, `ui/src/pages/deployment-details/...`	Adds deployment metadata defaults, validation, rendering, and multipart JSON serialization.
Device metadata form integration `ui/src/data-services/models/device.ts`, `ui/src/data-services/hooks/entities/useEntities.ts`, `ui/src/pages/project/entities/details-form/...`	Adds a typed `Device` model, maps device records to it, registers `DeviceDetailsForm`, and submits validated metadata through `customFields.metadata`.

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Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant Editor
  participant MetadataField
  participant FormProcessor
  participant API
  participant Database
  Editor->>MetadataField: Enter JSON metadata
  MetadataField->>FormProcessor: Validate JSON text
  Editor->>API: Submit deployment or device metadata
  API->>Database: Validate and store JSON object
  Database-->>API: Return stored metadata
  API-->>Editor: Display metadata in the form

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Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to 47428

This adds editable JSON metadata for stations and device types, but invalid metadata can bypass the intended object-only contract through direct database writes and station form validation may not reliably block saving. Resolve these integrity and save-blocking gaps before merge.

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Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: projects can record custom attributes on stations and device types.
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Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	The changes satisfy the core objectives of `#507` and the deployment metadata objective in `#307`. They add validated JSON metadata to Deployments and Device Types, expose it through the API, support fron…
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The backend, frontend, tests, migration, and planning documentation are related to configurable metadata and the linked issue objectives. No unrelated code changes are evident.
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Pull request overview

Adds a free-form, project-defined metadata JSON object to stations (Deployments) and device types (Devices), with server-side shape validation (must be a JSON object) and UI editing support so operators can record/query/publish attributes that don’t warrant first-class columns yet.

Changes:

Backend: add metadata JSONField to Deployment and Device, enforced by a shared model validator/factory and exposed via DRF serializers, with a migration and API tests.
Frontend: add a reusable JSON textarea (MetadataField) plus parse/format/validate helpers, and wire metadata editing into the station (deployment) form and the device-type entity dialog.
Docs/tests: add Jest unit tests for the metadata helpers and planning notes indexed in docs/claude/INDEX.md.

File summaries

File	Description
ui/src/utils/language.ts	Adds translatable strings for metadata label and validation/help messages.
ui/src/utils/fieldProcessors.ts	Adds `formatMetadata` / `parseMetadata` / `validateMetadata` helpers for JSON-text editing.
ui/src/utils/fieldProcessors.test.ts	Adds Jest coverage for metadata helper behavior and validation messages.
ui/src/components/form/metadata-field.tsx	Introduces a reusable textarea field component for free-form JSON metadata.
ui/src/pages/project/entities/details-form/device-details-form.tsx	Adds device-type metadata editing to the entity details dialog via `customFields`.
ui/src/pages/project/entities/details-form/constants.ts	Registers the device-type custom details form.
ui/src/pages/deployment-details/deployment-details-form/config.ts	Adds metadata field config (label/help/validation) to the station form.
ui/src/pages/deployment-details/deployment-details-form/deployment-details-form.tsx	Seeds station form state with formatted metadata text.
ui/src/pages/deployment-details/deployment-details-form/section-general/section-general.tsx	Renders the metadata field in the station “General” section.
ui/src/data-services/models/device.ts	Adds a `Device` model wrapper with a `metadata` getter.
ui/src/data-services/models/deployment-details.ts	Adds `metadata` to station form values and a `metadata` getter on `DeploymentDetails`.
ui/src/data-services/hooks/entities/useEntities.ts	Constructs `Device` instances when fetching the devices collection.
ui/src/data-services/hooks/deployments/utils.ts	Serializes metadata into multipart form data for station create/update.
docs/claude/planning/2026-09-07-configurable-metadata-fields.md	Backend design/decisions write-up for metadata fields and validation.
docs/claude/planning/2026-09-07-configurable-metadata-fields-ui.md	Frontend design/decisions write-up for metadata UI and helpers.
docs/claude/INDEX.md	Indexes the new planning docs for discoverability.
ami/main/models.py	Adds `_JSON_TYPE_NAMES`, `validate_metadata_object`, `metadata_field()`, and `metadata` fields on Device/Deployment.
ami/main/migrations/0096_deployment_metadata_device_metadata.py	Migration adding `metadata` JSONFields to Deployment and Device.
ami/main/api/serializers.py	Exposes `metadata` on `DeploymentSerializer` and `DeviceSerializer`.
ami/main/tests.py	Adds API tests covering shape enforcement, permissions, defaults, and multipart behavior.

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+export const parseMetadata = (value: string | undefined): object => {
+  if (!value || value.trim() === '') {
+    return {}
+  }
+
+  return JSON.parse(value)
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113-121: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win

Block the final save when section validation fails

submitFormSection() dispatches validation, but onSaveClick always calls onSubmit(data) in requestAnimationFrame. Invalid metadata such as [ or [] can therefore submit stale or partial form data. Make final submission depend on the successful handleSubmit path. Add a regression test that edits metadata to [ without blurring, selects Save, and asserts that onSubmit is not called.
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around lines 113 - 121, Update onSaveClick so the requestAnimationFrame
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- Around line 12-33: The migration adding metadata to Deployment and Device must
enforce object-only JSON at the database level, not just through
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- Around line 113-121: Update onSaveClick so the requestAnimationFrame
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ui/src/pages/deployment-details/deployment-details-form/config.ts
ui/src/pages/deployment-details/deployment-details-form/deployment-details-form.tsx
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coderabbitai · 2026-09-08T04:48:13Z

+    operations = [
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name="deployment",
+            name="metadata",
+            field=models.JSONField(
+                blank=True,
+                default=dict,
+                help_text="Free-form JSON object holding attributes specific to this configuration, beyond the fields modelled natively. Camera height or habitat description, for example.",
+                validators=[ami.main.models.validate_metadata_object],
+            ),
+        ),
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name="device",
+            name="metadata",
+            field=models.JSONField(
+                blank=True,
+                default=dict,
+                help_text="Free-form JSON object holding attributes specific to this configuration, beyond the fields modelled natively. Camera height or habitat description, for example.",
+                validators=[ami.main.models.validate_metadata_object],
+            ),
+        ),
+    ]


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Enforce object-only metadata in the database.

metadata_field() defines an object-only contract, but the validators do not run for Model.save(), bulk_create(), or QuerySet.update(). PostgreSQL jsonb accepts arrays and scalar values, so these paths can store invalid metadata in Deployment.metadata and Device.metadata. Add matching jsonb_typeof(metadata) = 'object' check constraints and regression tests.

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Let a station report how it is doing, and show when it was last seen #1408

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export const parseMetadata = (value: string | undefined): object => {

if (!value || value.trim() === '') {

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