White Screen of Death

[sashakames]

This seems to happen when first attempting a CMIP6 search using the "fedtest" index at LLNL

Everything goes white. Guess that the backend feeds something the json parser can't handle and causes the crash.

Maybe this has some good info. I captured it in case you are blocked by Medium

https://medium.com/wix-engineering/white-screen-of-death-how-to-handle-errors-in-react-native-4d57ac82b6d8

We narrowed down the case to not checking particular fields in the search result from a bad publication. For testing we will need a broken mock search record, but I think it might be realistic that someone publishes a mistake to production.

[sashakames]

@sturoscy-personal You once found a solution to this issue with search, was that fix committed to a branch somewhere? if so, great to merge in our latest changes or rebase. We can reproduce this:

• Change the hostname in the SEARCH_URL setting to esgf-fedtest.llnl.gov
• restart the containers (the setting must load on the backend)
• Select "all (except CMIP6)" and hit the button
• you should see the WSOD and a javascript error in the console.

[sashakames]

Also CMIP6 search produces the WSOD as shown on esgf-dev1 (configured with esgf-fedtest).