From 50f6bd418c21346f355f473707f0963d341e6ca2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christian Fehmer <fehmer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2025 11:32:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix: errors not being logged into the database (@fehmer)
 (#6323)

!nuf
---
 backend/src/middlewares/error.ts | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/backend/src/middlewares/error.ts b/backend/src/middlewares/error.ts
index 0d66de7e0bfc..454105499602 100644
--- a/backend/src/middlewares/error.ts
+++ b/backend/src/middlewares/error.ts
@@ -11,13 +11,12 @@ import {
   recordServerErrorByVersion,
 } from "../utils/prometheus";
 import { isDevEnvironment } from "../utils/misc";
-import { ObjectId } from "mongodb";
 import { version } from "../version";
 import { addLog } from "../dal/logs";
 import { ExpressRequestWithContext } from "../api/types";
 
 type DBError = {
-  _id: ObjectId;
+  _id: string; //we are using uuid here, not objectIds
   timestamp: number;
   status: number;
   uid: string;
@@ -81,7 +80,7 @@ async function errorHandlingMiddleware(
           uid
         );
         await db.collection<DBError>("errors").insertOne({
-          _id: new ObjectId(errorId),
+          _id: errorId,
           timestamp: Date.now(),
           status: status,
           uid,