Merge branch 'f-empty' into 'dev'

Allow empty records

See merge request !132

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Removed ###
 
 ### Fixed ###
+- Empty Records can now be created (https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-crawler/-/issues/27)
 
 * [#58](https://gitlab.com/caosdb/caosdb-crawler/-/issues/58) Documentation builds API docs in pipeline now.
 

src/caoscrawler/converters.py

@@ -235,6 +235,12 @@ def create_records(values: GeneralStore, records: RecordStore, def_records: dict
     keys_modified = []
 
     for name, record in def_records.items():
+        # If only a name was given (Like this:
+        # Experiment:
+        # ) set record to an empty dict / empty configuration
+        if record is None:
+            record = {}
+
         role = "Record"
         # This allows us to create e.g. Files
         if "role" in record:

unittests/test_parent_cfood.yml

@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ data:
   match_name: '.*'
   records:
     Experiment:
-      name: "e"
     Projekt:
       parents: ["project"]
       name: "p"
@@ -25,6 +24,7 @@ data:
       records:
         Experiment:
             parents: ["Exp"]
+            name: "e"
         Projekt:
             parents: ["Projekt"]
         Campaign: