From 4fd21d4c55e064c8d98b0ba6577f156cc669c852 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: BonfaceKilz
Date: Mon, 4 Jul 2022 15:22:54 +0300
Subject: wqflask: use the raw user string if value is non-existent in redis

* wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py (_get_diffs): If a user---whose
value is extracted from Redis and encoded in the file name---doesn't
exist in Redis, use the raw string extracted from the file.
---
 wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py b/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py
index 5468fe9b..4b960072 100644
--- a/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py
+++ b/wqflask/wqflask/metadata_edits.py
@@ -62,13 +62,16 @@ def _get_diffs(
 ):
     def __get_file_metadata(file_name: str) -> Dict:
         author, resource_id, time_stamp, *_ = file_name.split(".")
-
+        try:
+            author = json.loads(redis_conn.hget("users", author)).get(
+               "full_name"
+           )
+        except (AttributeError, TypeError):
+            author = author
         return {
             "resource_id": resource_id,
             "file_name": file_name,
-            "author": json.loads(redis_conn.hget("users", author)).get(
-                "full_name"
-            ),
+            "author": author,
             "time_stamp": time_stamp,
             "roles": get_highest_user_access_role(
                 resource_id=resource_id,
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