address comments

Signed-off-by: Fredrik Adelöw <freben@gmail.com>

docs/features/software-catalog/descriptor-format.md

@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@ follows.
 {
   // ...
   "status": {
-    "backstage.io/processing-status": {
+    "backstage.io/catalog-processing": {
       "errors": []
     }
   },
@@ -428,9 +428,9 @@ follows.
 ```
 
 The keys of the `status` object are arbitrary strings. We recommend that any
-statuses, that are not strictly private within the organization, be namespaced
-to avoid collisions. Statuses emitted by Backstage core processes will for
-example be prefixed with `backstage.io/` as in the example above.
+statuses that are not strictly private within the organization be namespaced to
+avoid collisions. Statuses emitted by Backstage core processes will for example
+be prefixed with `backstage.io/` as in the example above.
 
 The values of the `status` object are currently left unrestricted, except that
 they must be objects. We reserve the right to extend this model in the future,

docs/features/software-catalog/well-known-statuses.md

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ a standard concept of "severity" or "level" to these.
 
 This is a (non-exhaustive) list of statuses that are known to be in active use.
 
-### `backstage.io/processing-status`
+### `backstage.io/catalog-processing`
 
 Contains the current status of the catalog's ingestion of this entity. Errors
 that may appear here include inability to read from the remote SCM provider,
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ successfully ingested. This is normal.
 ```yaml
 # Example:
 status:
-  backstage.io/processing-status:
+  backstage.io/catalog-processing:
     errors: []
 ```
 

plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/Stitcher.test.ts

@@ -92,9 +92,7 @@ describe('Stitcher', () => {
           },
         ],
         status: {
-          'backstage.io/processing-status': {
-            errors: [],
-          },
+          'backstage.io/catalog-processing': {},
         },
         apiVersion: 'a',
         kind: 'k',
@@ -177,9 +175,7 @@ describe('Stitcher', () => {
           },
         ]),
         status: {
-          'backstage.io/processing-status': {
-            errors: [],
-          },
+          'backstage.io/catalog-processing': {},
         },
         apiVersion: 'a',
         kind: 'k',

plugins/catalog-backend/src/next/Stitcher.ts

@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
  */
 
 import { Entity, parseEntityRef } from '@backstage/catalog-model';
+import { JsonObject } from '@backstage/config';
 import { ConflictError } from '@backstage/errors';
 import { createHash } from 'crypto';
 import stableStringify from 'fast-json-stable-stringify';
@@ -35,6 +36,10 @@ export type DbFinalEntitiesRow = {
   final_entity: string;
 };
 
+type ProcessingStatus = {
+  errors?: JsonObject[];
+};
+
 function generateStableHash(entity: Entity) {
   return createHash('sha1')
     .update(stableStringify({ ...entity }))
@@ -134,6 +139,7 @@ export class Stitcher {
         // it
         const entity = JSON.parse(processedEntity) as Entity;
         const isOrphan = Number(incomingReferenceCount) === 0;
+        const processingStatus: ProcessingStatus = {};
 
         if (isOrphan) {
           this.logger.debug(`${entityRef} is an orphan`);
@@ -142,15 +148,13 @@ export class Stitcher {
             ['backstage.io/orphan']: 'true',
           };
         }
-        if (errors !== '') {
+        if (errors) {
           const parsedErrors = JSON.parse(errors);
-          entity.status = {
-            ...entity.status,
-            'backstage.io/processing-status': {
-              errors: parsedErrors,
-            },
-          };
+          if (Array.isArray(parsedErrors) && parsedErrors.length) {
+            processingStatus.errors = parsedErrors;
+          }
         }
+
         // TODO: entityRef is lower case and should be uppercase in the final
         // result
         entity.relations = result
@@ -159,6 +163,10 @@ export class Stitcher {
             type: row.relationType!,
             target: parseEntityRef(row.relationTarget!),
           }));
+        entity.status = {
+          ...entity.status,
+          'backstage.io/catalog-processing': processingStatus,
+        };
 
         // If the output entity was actually not changed, just abort
         const hash = generateStableHash(entity);