Cannot reduce marks when marks are not present

I am retrieving a Rich Text field from my Contentful model and since I have not introduced any types into it, the GraphQL blows up when I try and retrieve them (because there are none). If I remove the marks { type } JSON blob part, the GraphQL executes successfully, but the rich-text-react-renderer is expecting to have an existing object called marks to apply some styling. My surprise is that there’s no other way for me to create React components out of a JSON blob without marks. I would expect that if part of the document that I am passing to the rich-text-react-renderer component doesn’t contain marks, for it not to blow up and show the content without any marks…

[vpelkonen]

I was able to circumvent the same error by taking only the JSON data through GraphQL:

someRichTextNode {
  json
}

…and passing the JSON through to documentToReactComponents:

documentToReactComponents(someRichTextNode.json)

Source: https://www.contentful.com/developers/docs/tutorials/general/rich-text-and-gatsby/

[rmcsharry]

@cribbles you said:

For rich text markup, the marks property is expected to present on text nodes even when there are no marks applied to the text

But that is NOT happening.

For example, create a RTN and just type some text. There is no marks property created. Then go back and make the text italic or bold. Now there is a marks property.

So it seems the user has to do some kind of formatting otherwise there is no marks property. Is this because Contentful is not creating the marks property or is it because the GraphQL cannot see it if no formatting was applied?