Arrays of Pointers dont render correctly

[r2DoesInc]

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Environment Setup

Steps to reproduce

Pointers render with a link to the object its pointer to, unless that pointer is in an array.

[{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Connection","objectId":"8vCiwc7J1T"},{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Connection","objectId":"HHv9Oa6qFE"},{"__type":"Pointer","className":"Connection","objectId":"LTRsJIYBIH"}]

It would be nice if the pointers in an array rendered and linked to the object its pointing to as well.

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[MobileVet]

Could the same parsing that is done on 'pointer' columns be applied when __type:Pointer is identified in the array?

[AntonelloCherry]

Any news about this? It could be very useful

[r2DoesInc]

Therr is rreally no point to be using Parse these days.

[AntonelloCherry]

Therr is rreally no point to be using Parse these days.

Why? Any valid alternative to suggest?

[r2DoesInc]

Firebase? AWS?

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[dplewis]

@r2DoesInc I believe it was decided to make Array and Object fields to be generic as possible. This fixed a lot of decoding issues from the database.

Your feature request is still up for grabs. Unfortunately we don't have enough React developers in this Dashboard repo.

@AntonelloCherry Would you like to open a PR to addressed this? We are more than welcome to help.

Parse is quite active and better than ever!

[MobileVet]

Therr is rreally no point to be using Parse these days.

Maybe not for you, but this is a very active community and there are still quite a few people using it. Yes there are alternatives, but some may prefer to avoid 'the great Google in the sky' or other options and Parse is a strong, open source alternative.