Does anyone else have a problem with deleting/updating an annotation?

[ECannon]

Hi, I am using annotator v 2., I have annotator saving annotations and loading them again on page load, however when I try to delete or update the annotation I get an error 'annotation must have an id for delete()' and similar for update.

Has anyone had any problems with this before?

P.S my backend is fine and set up as per the documentation (works with postman) but I must be missing something on the front end, any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[tilgovi]

The annotations must have an id property to delete them, according to the way the storage system is written. If you are returning annotations from your server on page load, make sure you assign each of them an id property.

https://github.com/openannotation/annotator/blob/master/src/storage.js#L599

[ECannon]

Thanks for your timely reply. When I create an annotation I am storing them in mongoDB which will automatically create an id, however this id is not being sent in the url when I click the delete (x) on the annotation. When I am creating an annotation and then storing the annotation there is also no id being sent in the request body, only quote, ranges, text and uri. I would not have the uri in the body only that I included it on the client side. Do i have to do the same with the id?

[tilgovi]

You need to include the id in the body. If I remember correctly, MongoDB might add an _id field, but you will have to format this as id or change the storage adapter to suit your needs.

After you save an annotation, you will want to also update the new annotation by returning the annotation, with its new id.

[ECannon]

That's exactly it, thank you!