Portal editor image drop zone broken in dataone theme

[iannesbitt]

Describe the bug
The portal editor image drop zone in the default theme (https://search.dataone.org/edit/portals/[*]) is not working (neither click or drop functions produce any action). It does work on other themes (e.g. https://drp.dataone.org/edit/portals/drp-data).

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Go to https://search.dataone.org/edit/portals/rwsc

2. Click on image upload icon () in the text editor window

3. Click on the drop zone or drag and drop an image:

   

4. See error in console:

   ImageUploaderView could not be rendered, error message:  Error: No URL provided.
       Dropzone dropzone-amd-module.js:1078
       dropzone dropzone-amd-module.js:3216
       jQuery 2
           each
           each
       dropzone dropzone-amd-module.js:3215
       render ImageUploaderView.js:222
       addMdImage MarkdownEditorView.js:669
       render MarkdownEditorView.js:358
       n woofmark.min.js:2
   ImageUploaderView.js:404:19
       render https://search.dataone.org/js/views/ImageUploaderView.js?v=2.36.2:404
       addMdImage https://search.dataone.org/js/views/MarkdownEditorView.js?v=2.36.2:669
       render https://search.dataone.org/js/views/MarkdownEditorView.js?v=2.36.2:358
       n https://search.dataone.org/components/woofmark.min.js?v=2.36.2:2
   

Expected behavior
The file upload dialog should appear when clicked, and image upload should occur when dragged and dropped.

Screenshots
n/a

Desktop (please complete the following information):

• OS: iOS
• Browser: Firefox
• Version: 144.0.2 (but confirmed to happen across browsers and versions)

Smartphone (please complete the following information):

• Device: all
• OS: all
• Browser all
• Version all

Additional context
n/a

[iannesbitt]

In ImageUploaderView, the view.model.url() on line 223 is https://mn-ucsb-1.dataone.org/knb/d1/mn/v2/object/ when you navigate to search.dataone.org/edit/portals/3036847. I think this value is populated with baseURL + /object/, where baseURL is a value taken from the CN's /node endpoint but I have yet to find where this happens in MetacatUI.

Based on console logging, this value is present when the page loads but not when the image upload button is clicked, which results in the error above. I am now trying to look for where this might be nullified.

[iannesbitt]

The problem lies in DataONEObject.url(), where this.get("useAltRepo") is initially true but is change to false after page load.

This can be resolved temporarily by setting objectServiceUrl: "https://mn-ucsb-1.dataone.org/knb/d1/mn/v2/object/" in the dataone theme's config.js.

The change should be tracked down and resolved if possible, however.

[iannesbitt]

I committed a temporary fix (95cf161) that circumvents the useAltRepo issue only in the creation of portal editor image dropzone views. @robyngit is going to further investigate why the useAltRepo value is actually changing.