Importing hierarchical JSON-AD with local-id parents is order dependent

[joepio]

Have a JSON-AD object that references a parent using a local-id, and the parent defined after that:

[
    {
        "https://atomicdata.dev/properties/localId": "child",
        "https://atomicdata.dev/properties/parent": "parent"
    },
    {
        "https://atomicdata.dev/properties/localId": "parent"
    }
]

We get an error:

Unable to import JSON-AD. Unable to parse resource in array. Unauthorized. No parent found for https://atomicdata.dev/importer/3cdk2343yrq/child

This happens, because the parent mentioned does not exist when the first resource is being parsed.

If we invert the order, we're good to go:

[
    {
        "https://atomicdata.dev/properties/localId": "parent"
    },
    {
        "https://atomicdata.dev/properties/localId": "child",
        "https://atomicdata.dev/properties/parent": "parent"
    }
]

How to deal with this

• Improve error message, instruct users to use a specific import order (first the parents, then the children)
• Automatically generate referenced parents as empty resources, they'll be overwritten later on automatically.