POST-Request to endpoint bibliography/import failed with status code 500

[nnamreffo]

What is going wrong?

Error when importing Bibtex file to bibliography module

Description

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Expected behaviour

If the error is in the Bibtex, user should be notified

Actual behaviour

actually not sure

[DavidKi]

Hey @nnamreffo

I am not part of the Dev-Team. But your error looks like an error in your bibtex-file as you already guessed.

For the developers it could be useful, if you post your bibtex-file. Or at least the entry with the "mandatory"-key, which is probable not known to Spacialist.

For better user-experience I would upvote for a a more end-user-friendly error message, which gives a clear hint on the bad bibtex key. So the user can correct his/her bibtex-file

[v1r0x]

This is a bug in Spacialist :wink:

I suppose you are trying to add an item of type misc?

A fix will soon be available

[nnamreffo]

Thank you @DavidKi and @v1r0x !

Afterwards i checked entry by entry and it was indeed a misc type item causing troubles:

@misc{baldan_riverconn_2022, title = {riverconn: {An} {R} package to assess river network fragmentation}, collaborator = {Baldan, Damiano and Cunillera-Montcusi, David and Funk, Andrea and Hein, Thomas}, year = {2022}, file = {SSRN-id4096555.pdf:C\:\Users\tt70osax\Zotero\storage\8AUV8HXS\SSRN-id4096555.pdf:application/pdf}, }

There's no mandatory key here, i suppose this is spacialist checking for a minimum of information in the imported entry, the unknown entry type being part of this minimum.