Schema mismatch: Property X in class Y is nullable on one side and not on the other

My Realm app is failing to sync, and I’m getting the following error:

ERROR: Connection[1]: Session[1]: Failed to transform received changeset: Schema mismatch: Property ‘children’ in class ‘Folder’ is nullable on one side and not on the other.

In my app, Folders can have many, and belong to many Folders. I’m not sure what this error means by “nullable on one side and not on the other”?

MORE CONTEXT:

This is the config I’m using when opening a Realm connection:

const config = {
      schema: [Schema.Folder, Schema.Note],
      schemaVersion: 2.2,
      path: `${app.getPath('userData')}/${this.app.currentUser.id}/default.realm`,
      sync: {
        user: this.app.currentUser,
        partitionValue: this.app.currentUser.id,
        existingRealmFileBehavior: {
          type: "openImmediately"
        },
        newRealmFileBehavior: {
          type: "openImmediately"
        }
      }
    }

And as for the Schema.Folder and Schema.Notes it’s referencing, those are defined as this:

    const Folder = {
      name: "Folder",
      primaryKey: "_id",
      _partition: "string?",
      properties: {
        _id: "string",
        name: { type: "string", default: "Untitled Folder" },
        folder_id: { type: "string?", default: "" },
        is_collapsed: { type: "bool", default: true },
        children: {
          type: "list",
          objectType: "string"
        },
        notes: "Note[]",
        created_at: "date",
        updated_at: "date?",
        deleted_at: "date?",
      }
    }

    const Note = {
      name: "Note",
      "primaryKey": "_id",
      _partition: "string?",
      properties: {
        _id: "string", // uuid
        body: { type: "string?", default: "" },
        preview: "string?",
        is_pinned: { type: "bool", default: false },
        folder: {
          type: "linkingObjects",
          objectType: "Folder",
          property: "notes"
        },
        created_at: "date",
        updated_at: "date?",
        deleted_at: "date?",
        margins: { type: "bool", default: false },
      }
    }

Hi Annie,

I’m not sure if you’re still having this problem as this was posted last year.

This error likely means that the property in question has been made Required either in the client code or in the Sync cloud schema. Please compare the two and see if they match.

If anyone sees this error in Kotlin SDK please be aware of the bug below and try the included workaround.

Regards

Hey There!

In my case just by adding manually the field to the schema required array made it work.
Thanks