[CT-3331] Exposures aren't displaying any properties (dbt > 1.6.0)

[jeremyyeo]

Describe the bug

Sometime between patch versions 1.6.0 and 1.6.1 - exposures in dbt-docs lost the ability to display any properties except description.

Steps To Reproduce

Project setup:

# dbt_project.yml
name: my_dbt_project
profile: all
config-version: 2
version: "1.0.0"

models:
  my_dbt_project:
    +materialized: table

# models/exp.yml
version: 2

exposures:
  - name: weekly_jaffle_metrics
    label: Jaffles by the Week
    type: dashboard
    maturity: high
    url: https://bi.tool/dashboards/1
    description: >
      Did someone say "exponential growth"?

    depends_on:
      - ref('foo')

    owner:
      name: Mr Foo
      email: [email protected]

-- models/foo.sql
select 1 as id

Use 2 different python virtual environments for these.

1. Install dbt 1.6.0, build and serve docs and inspect outcome:

$ pip install dbt-postgres==1.6.0
$ dbt docs generate && dbt docs serve

2. Install the next patch version dbt 1.6.1 and do the same.

$ pip install dbt-postgres==1.6.1
$ dbt docs generate && dbt docs serve

3. Any other patch version higher than 1.6.1 (e.g. 1.6.6) also has this issue.

Expected behavior

Exposures should show the same information in >=1.6.1 as they did =1.6.0.

Screenshots and log output

See above.

The output of dbt --version:

Exposure shows additional properties:

Core:
  - installed: 1.6.0
  - latest:    1.7.0 - Update available!

  Your version of dbt-core is out of date!
  You can find instructions for upgrading here:
  https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/installation

Plugins:
  - postgres: 1.6.0 - Update available!

  At least one plugin is out of date or incompatible with dbt-core.
  You can find instructions for upgrading here:
  https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/installation

Exposure not showing any properties:

Core:
  - installed: 1.6.1
  - latest:    1.7.0 - Update available!

  Your version of dbt-core is out of date!
  You can find instructions for upgrading here:
  https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/installation

Plugins:
  - postgres: 1.6.1 - Update available!

  At least one plugin is out of date or incompatible with dbt-core.
  You can find instructions for upgrading here:
  https://docs.getdbt.com/docs/installation

Additional context

Afaict, the contents in manifest.json for both version re: the exposure node has not changed:

1.6.0

  "metadata": {
    "dbt_schema_version": "https://schemas.getdbt.com/dbt/manifest/v10.json",
    "dbt_version": "1.6.0",
    "generated_at": "2023-11-07T01:01:27.107040Z",
    "invocation_id": "b0703eb6-e4da-4b1b-a74f-3f5c4446f75e",
    "env": {},
    "project_name": "my_dbt_project",
    "project_id": "8e00f1da647a9fd0396f0423a0fe1eda",
    "user_id": "c7db1ffc-e489-43ff-a090-198c5ec53fea",
    "send_anonymous_usage_stats": true,
    "adapter_type": "postgres"
  },
...
  "exposures": {
    "exposure.my_dbt_project.weekly_jaffle_metrics": {
      "name": "weekly_jaffle_metrics",
      "resource_type": "exposure",
      "package_name": "my_dbt_project",
      "path": "exp.yml",
      "original_file_path": "models/exp.yml",
      "unique_id": "exposure.my_dbt_project.weekly_jaffle_metrics",
      "fqn": ["my_dbt_project", "weekly_jaffle_metrics"],
      "type": "dashboard",
      "owner": { "email": "[email protected]", "name": "Mr Foo" },
      "description": "Did someone say \"exponential growth\"?\n",
      "label": "Jaffles by the Week",
      "maturity": "high",
      "meta": {},
      "tags": [],
      "config": { "enabled": true },
      "unrendered_config": {},
      "url": "https://bi.tool/dashboards/1",
      "depends_on": { "macros": [], "nodes": ["model.my_dbt_project.foo"] },
      "refs": [{ "name": "foo", "package": null, "version": null }],
      "sources": [],
      "metrics": [],
      "created_at": 1699318888.0205598
    }
  },

1.6.1

  "metadata": {
    "dbt_schema_version": "https://schemas.getdbt.com/dbt/manifest/v10.json",
    "dbt_version": "1.6.1",
    "generated_at": "2023-11-07T00:56:38.637651Z",
    "invocation_id": "59f7da3f-497e-4ffa-9c5e-687acc0fa3ec",
    "env": {},
    "project_name": "my_dbt_project",
    "project_id": "8e00f1da647a9fd0396f0423a0fe1eda",
    "user_id": "c7db1ffc-e489-43ff-a090-198c5ec53fea",
    "send_anonymous_usage_stats": true,
    "adapter_type": "postgres"
  },
...
  "exposures": {
    "exposure.my_dbt_project.weekly_jaffle_metrics": {
      "name": "weekly_jaffle_metrics",
      "resource_type": "exposure",
      "package_name": "my_dbt_project",
      "path": "exp.yml",
      "original_file_path": "models/exp.yml",
      "unique_id": "exposure.my_dbt_project.weekly_jaffle_metrics",
      "fqn": ["my_dbt_project", "weekly_jaffle_metrics"],
      "type": "dashboard",
      "owner": { "email": "[email protected]", "name": "Mr Foo" },
      "description": "Did someone say \"exponential growth\"?\n",
      "label": "Jaffles by the Week",
      "maturity": "high",
      "meta": {},
      "tags": [],
      "config": { "enabled": true },
      "unrendered_config": {},
      "url": "https://bi.tool/dashboards/1",
      "depends_on": { "macros": [], "nodes": ["model.my_dbt_project.foo"] },
      "refs": [{ "name": "foo", "package": null, "version": null }],
      "sources": [],
      "metrics": [],
      "created_at": 1699318599.481571
    }
  },

So it may be the html/js in this repo - maybe #465? Not sure yet.

There is #470 as well but not sure if it's about the same thing.

[dbeatty10]

Thanks for reporting this @jeremyyeo.

Using the example you provided, I saw the same thing as you. But I didn't dive in far enough to identify the root cause(s).

Thank you for examining manifest.json and basically ruling it out as a suspect and honing in on it likely being something within the dbt-docs repo.

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[jairus-m]

Currently on dbt v1.8 and having the same issue still.