fix

Author: pcrespov

services/web/server/src/simcore_service_webserver/projects/_projects_service.py

@@ -1991,7 +1991,10 @@ async def add_project_states_for_user(
         # upgrade the project
         # NOTE: copy&dump step avoids both alias and field-names to be keys in the dict
         # e.g. "current_status" and "currentStatus"
-        current_node_state = NodeState.model_validate(node.get("state", {}))
+        current_node_state = NodeState.model_validate(
+            node.get("state")
+            or {}  # NOTE: that node.get("state") can exists and be None!
+        )
         updated_node_state = current_node_state.model_copy(
             update=computed_node_state.model_dump(mode="json", exclude_unset=True)
         )

services/web/server/tests/unit/with_dbs/02/test_projects_nodes_handler.py

@@ -483,7 +483,7 @@ def inc_running_services(self, *args, **kwargs):  # noqa: ARG002
         assert result
         node_ids = result.scalars().all()
     assert len(node_ids) == NUM_DY_SERVICES + num_services_in_project
-    assert set(running_services.running_services_uuids).issubset(node_ids)
+    assert {f"{i}" for i in running_services.running_services_uuids}.issubset(node_ids)
     print(f"--> {NUM_DY_SERVICES} nodes were created concurrently")
 
     #