decko-commons
500 Server Error Changing Cardype from File or Image to Anything Else
Brand new deck, create new card newcard and set its Cardtype to File. Save.
Now change Cardtype to RichText:
Wild Card!
500 Server Error
Yuck, sorry about that.
Same error when attempting to change the Cardtype to anything else.
Similarly, create newcard, set its Cardtype to Image, submit an image file and save.
Changing the Cardtype to anything else also results in the 500 Server Error.
If neither the File or Image Cardtypes can be changed, maybe the option to change it should be removed? Or a warning that the image/file will be unlinked / removed?
Nice catch.
tl;dr - I'll fix the bug; it's pretty shallow. In the meantime, if you need to change a type like this, you can get there using ?view=edit_cardtype.
Recently we upgraded the UI so that you could see (and immediately fix) the content impacts of a type change. But that UI is not accounting for type changes in which the ui for the type you're changing from sends attributes that the type you're changing to can't handle.
The issue, in effect, is that the UI is sending a bad request (and one that our tests are not covering). There is no underlying reason why the card can't be changed. The underlying file/image will not be lost, but you're right that we should explain the impacts for existing links to that file/image and what will need to happen to use it again.
