Edit collection > Assign Roles page never finishes loading in DSpace 9 and is not usable for sites with entities and researcher-profiles disabled

[MW3000]

Describe the bug

Edit collection > Assign Roles page never finishes loading in DSpace 9 and is not usable for sites with entities and researcher-profiles disabled. Instead it continues to try to load server/api/config/properties/researcher-profile.entity-type ad infinitum, even if entities and researcher profiles are disabled.

To Reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Install a new DSpace 9.x (I tested 9.0 and 9.1) out of the box
2. Add one community and one collection
3. Go to your one collection and choose Edit collection > Assign Roles
4. Observe the text "Loading..." for "Default item read access" and for "Default bitstream read access"
5. Observe the page becoming unresponsive
6. Observe the browser log showing ongoing 404 loads for server/api/config/properties/researcher-profile.entity-type
[Error] Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 404 () (researcher-profile.entity-type, line 0) http://localhost:8080/server/api/config/properties/researcher-profile.entity-type

Expected behavior

Edit collection > Assign Roles should work correctly for sites with entities disabled and researcher-profile disabled.

Related work

I could find one other issue mentioning failing calls to researcher-profile.entity-type, but the context is totally different: #3759. I think they are not related.

[jesielviana]

Hi @MW3000, I can’t reproduce the bug.

1. I installed a fresh DSpace 9.1
2. Created an admin user and logged in with that user
3. Created a community
4. Created a collection, and accessed the edit roles of the collection.
5. Everything worked fine.

[kshepherd]

I can't reproduce this in Sandbox either, editing https://sandbox.dspace.org/collections/cf074866-559e-44d0-b3d2-0ecaf2bd3726/edit/roles
Tried locally with main branch, too -- I see one 404 for the researcher profile (and content report, and google analytics key).

@MW3000 is it possible that this is browser specific? What type/version of browser are you using?

[MW3000]

I’m doing some more testing at the moment. I’ll try a new setup in a different environment. I’ll report as soon as I know more