Simplified the parseEntityRef function

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

plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/BuiltinKindsEntityProcessor.test.ts

@@ -187,7 +187,7 @@ describe('BuiltinKindsEntityProcessor', () => {
       await expect(
         processor.postProcessEntity(entity, location, emit),
       ).rejects.toThrowError(
-        'Entity reference "r" did not specify a kind (e.g. starting with "Component:"), and has no default',
+        'Entity reference "r" had missing or empty kind (e.g. did not start with "component:" or similar)',
       );
     });
 
@@ -360,7 +360,7 @@ describe('BuiltinKindsEntityProcessor', () => {
       await expect(
         processor.postProcessEntity(entity, location, emit),
       ).rejects.toThrowError(
-        'Entity reference "c" did not specify a kind (e.g. starting with "Component:"), and has no default',
+        'Entity reference "c" had missing or empty kind (e.g. did not start with "component:" or similar)',
       );
     });
 

plugins/catalog-backend/src/ingestion/processors/BuiltinKindsEntityProcessor.ts

@@ -106,11 +106,6 @@ export class BuiltinKindsEntityProcessor implements CatalogProcessor {
       }
       for (const target of [targets].flat()) {
         const targetRef = parseEntityRef(target, context);
-        if (targetRef.kind === undefined) {
-          throw new Error(
-            `Entity reference "${target}" did not specify a kind (e.g. starting with "Component:"), and has no default`,
-          );
-        }
         emit(
           result.relation({
             source: selfRef,