Description
Describe the bug
When the fields extension is enabled, the search response will include null for every field that is not defined in an item.
To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- Ingest STAC Item with minimal metadata, eg. https://github.com/radiantearth/stac-spec/blob/master/examples/simple-item.json
- Send GET or POST
/search
request - The response contains null for the following fields of the features:
- geometry.bbox
- assets.*.description
- assets.*.start_datetime
- assets.*.created
- ...
- links[*].title
- links[*].label
Expected behavior
According to the STAC API Fields extension, a field should not be specified in the search response if it does not apply to an Item.
https://github.com/stac-api-extensions/fields/blob/6662435f98b8fff6e5d8ffa0f212e3241a10bc6f/README.md?plain=1#L58-L61
Additional context
This bug can be solved in the following ways:
Fix it in stac-fastapi-elasticsearch by adding the exclude_unset=True
parameter to the .json()
call.
https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi-elasticsearch/blob/5f26c325940761da7ecd86677da7acceea69bb78/stac_fastapi/elasticsearch/stac_fastapi/elasticsearch/core.py#L512
Or fix it in stac-fastapi by adding exclude_unset
to the PostFieldsExtension:filter_fields
dictionary.
https://github.com/stac-utils/stac-fastapi/blob/09dac221d86fe70035aa6cddbc9a3f0de304aff5/stac_fastapi/extensions/stac_fastapi/extensions/core/fields/request.py#L57-L60