Polling failed with error: Failed to parse jobs: (NonEmptyList (NonEmpty (ErrorAtProperty "commit" (ErrorAtProperty "short_id" (TypeMismatch "object" "object"))) Nil))
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The
/jobsAPI can return null for a commit if that branch has been removed from the source control. This is not a usual situation, but has happened to us where a backup went awry.However, if the
commitobject is null, then the Gitlab Dashboard fails to parse and stops updating any projects after the project with the null commit. The error message in the console is:And a sample response from the
/jobsAPI with this problem is: