SolidOS / SolidOS/solidos

Profile Editing Form Ignores seeAlso links

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JavaScript
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Description

If I move the foaf:knows triples from my profile to a file linked from my profile with rdfs:seeAlso, the show-profile page can find them, but the edit-profile page can not. This is because the form to edit the profile is based on the profile document, not the profile graph. [EDIT: following suggestion is probably unworkable because where would you write the data back to?] One way of solving this would be to use something like solid-rest-browser to store the profile graph as an in-memory document and edit the profile using the in-memory document as the data-source of the form.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
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Research direction

Start by comparing the show-profile page, which can find foaf:knows triples through rdfs:seeAlso, with the edit-profile page, which reads only the profile document. Investigate whether solid-rest-browser can provide an in-memory profile graph for the form, then determine where edited data would be written back. Done means linked profile data can be edited without losing a valid storage destination.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
javascript
Domain
frontend, web-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
30/100

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