Fixing an issue with user metadata not always being present when user accessing app, causing weird issues.

packages/server/src/api/controllers/auth.js

@@ -28,14 +28,23 @@ exports.fetchSelf = async ctx => {
         ...metadata,
       })
     } catch (err) {
+      let response
       // user didn't exist in app, don't pretend they do
       if (user.roleId === BUILTIN_ROLE_IDS.PUBLIC) {
-        ctx.body = {}
+        response = {}
       }
       // user has a role of some sort, return them
-      else {
+      else if (err.status === 404) {
-        ctx.body = user
+        const metadata = {
+          _id: userId,
+        }
+        const dbResp = await db.put(metadata)
+        user._rev = dbResp.rev
+        response = user
+      } else {
+        response = user
       }
+      ctx.body = response
     }
   } else {
     ctx.body = user

packages/server/src/db/linkedRows/index.js

@@ -81,7 +81,9 @@ async function getFullLinkedDocs(ctx, appId, links) {
     row => row.doc
   )
   // convert the unique db rows back to a full list of linked rows
-  const linked = linkedRowIds.map(id => dbRows.find(row => row._id === id))
+  const linked = linkedRowIds
+    .map(id => dbRows.find(row => row && row._id === id))
+    .filter(row => row != null)
   // need to handle users as specific cases
   let [users, other] = partition(linked, linkRow =>
     linkRow._id.startsWith(USER_METDATA_PREFIX)
@@ -172,13 +174,18 @@ exports.attachFullLinkedDocs = async (ctx, table, rows) => {
         row[link.fieldName] = []
       }
       const linkedRow = linked.find(row => row._id === link.id)
-      const linkedTableId =
+      if (linkedRow) {
-        linkedRow.tableId || getRelatedTableForField(table, link.fieldName)
+        const linkedTableId =
-      const linkedTable = await getLinkedTable(db, linkedTableId, linkedTables)
+          linkedRow.tableId || getRelatedTableForField(table, link.fieldName)
-      if (!linkedRow || !linkedTable) {
+        const linkedTable = await getLinkedTable(
-        continue
+          db,
+          linkedTableId,
+          linkedTables
+        )
+        if (linkedTable) {
+          row[link.fieldName].push(processFormulas(linkedTable, linkedRow))
+        }
       }
-      row[link.fieldName].push(processFormulas(linkedTable, linkedRow))
     }
   }
   return rows