From 0064218a61387931a8961258573d88b8c16911ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Solomon Negusse <solomon.negusse@wri.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 19:54:15 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] pass through None in validation

---
 app/models/pydantic/metadata.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/app/models/pydantic/metadata.py b/app/models/pydantic/metadata.py
index 0c71b5451..f17d44b6d 100644
--- a/app/models/pydantic/metadata.py
+++ b/app/models/pydantic/metadata.py
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ class VersionMetadataWithParentResponse(Response):
 
 
 def _date_validator(date_str):
-    if isinstance(date_str, date):
+    if isinstance(date_str, date) or date_str is None:
         return date_str
 
     try: