[BUG] Failure to decode channel with `parentID`

[rodneyosodo]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• [X] I have searched the existing issues

What were you trying to achieve?

View a channel that has a parentID.

What are the expected results?

To be able to view the channel and possibly the parentID

What are the received results?

{"level":"info","message":"Method list_channels took 9.069263ms to complete without errors.","ts":"2023-12-18T09:39:44.955237986Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"Method get_entities took 5.670268ms to complete without errors.","ts":"2023-12-18T09:39:45.02150105Z"}
{"level":"warn","message":"Method view_channel for channel 5a281255-536d-4263-bfb1-59882d1aae6c took 2.443387ms to complete with error: unexpected end of JSON input : failed to retrieve entity.","ts":"2023-12-18T09:39:46.239980389Z"}
{"level":"info","message":"Method ErrorPage took 4.183833ms to complete without errors.","ts":"2023-12-18T09:39:46.250487103Z"}

Steps To Reproduce

1. Login in as super user
2. Create channel 1
3. Create channel 2 with channel 1 as parentID
4. Try to view channel2

In what environment did you encounter the issue?

Git commit - https://github.com/absmach/magistrala-ui/commit/b40e56212d69fea09fb68c32e1006b2ff80de63c Docker Compose version 2.23.3 Docker version

Client: Version: 24.0.7 API version: 1.43 OS/Arch: linux/amd64

Server: Engine: Version: 24.0.7 API version: 1.43 (minimum version 1.12)

Additional information you deem important

No response

[ianmuchyri]

this is based on an issue with Magistrala https://github.com/absmach/magistrala/issues/187