Strange bug - Gatsby returns ALL NULL's for an Airtable field with data

[Richard McSharry]

FIrst off, thanks for this great plugin.

I had a field in my AirTable that was called

Phone no. (Cell)

Gatsby renamde it to:

Phone_no___Cell_

that is 3 underscores before "Cell" and 1 after

Although every record has phone numbers, they are all NULL in Gatsby.

I tried quite a few things to fix this (eg. changing the Airtable field type to text instead of Phone Number, creating a schema customisation in Gatsby to force an error on non null - didn't work!)

So finally I renamed the field to Cell Number and now the data appears.

I am not sure if this is an issue with this plugin or Gatsby itself.

[Jacob Bolda]

👋

I wonder if there is significance with the 3 underscores not working. I don't suppose you tried it without the period?

[Richard McSharry]

Hmmm you might be correct re. the 3 underscores. I will try without the period and see what happens and post back.

[Richard McSharry]

Good call! If I remove the '.' then Phone no (Cell) becomes Phone_no__Cell_ and it works.

So the 3 underscores appears to be the issue.

[Jacob Bolda]

I think gatsby core depends on three underscores for some transformations. I wonder if this is strictly only worthwhile to put in documention?

I thought someone had asked in the past about passing a custom function that "cleans" the keys, but I am not finding it right now. With the next major version it may make sense to remove leading, trailing and multiple adjacent underscores.

[Richard McSharry]

Yes I think it's probably a useful addition to the docs.

[Jacob Bolda]

Would you be willing to submit a pull request? 🙏

[Richard McSharry]

Done:
#202

[Jacob Bolda]

Closed via #202.