From 55e7c94b91a05581b45ed8b675866524ef8ad7e4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel <daniel-blyth@live.com.au>
Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2026 17:16:22 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] fix: render Cloud Config Date params as dates after refresh
 (#2566)

---
 src/dashboard/Data/Config/Config.react.js | 11 ++-----
 src/lib/decodeConfigValue.js              | 23 +++++++++++++
 src/lib/tests/decodeConfigValue.test.js   | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 src/lib/decodeConfigValue.js
 create mode 100644 src/lib/tests/decodeConfigValue.test.js

diff --git a/src/dashboard/Data/Config/Config.react.js b/src/dashboard/Data/Config/Config.react.js
index 7daf827fb5..91016f26ec 100644
--- a/src/dashboard/Data/Config/Config.react.js
+++ b/src/dashboard/Data/Config/Config.react.js
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ import AddArrayEntryDialog from 'dashboard/Data/Config/AddArrayEntryDialog.react
 import RemoveArrayEntryDialog from 'dashboard/Data/Config/RemoveArrayEntryDialog.react';
 import EmptyState from 'components/EmptyState/EmptyState.react';
 import Icon from 'components/Icon/Icon.react';
+import decodeConfigValue from 'lib/decodeConfigValue';
 import { isDate } from 'lib/DateUtils';
 import Parse from 'parse';
 import React from 'react';
@@ -365,7 +366,7 @@ class Config extends TableView {
 
       // Get latest param values
       const fetchedParams = this.props.config.data.get('params');
-      const fetchedValue = fetchedParams.get(this.state.modalParam);
+      const fetchedValue = decodeConfigValue(fetchedParams.get(this.state.modalParam));
       const fetchedMasterKeyOnly =
         this.props.config.data.get('masterKeyOnly')?.get(this.state.modalParam) || false;
 
@@ -482,15 +483,9 @@ class Config extends TableView {
         data = [];
         params.forEach((value, param) => {
           const masterKeyOnly = masterKeyOnlyParams.get(param) || false;
-          const type = typeof value;
-          if (type === 'object' && value.__type == 'File') {
-            value = Parse.File.fromJSON(value);
-          } else if (type === 'object' && value.__type == 'GeoPoint') {
-            value = new Parse.GeoPoint(value);
-          }
           data.push({
             param: param,
-            value: value,
+            value: decodeConfigValue(value),
             masterKeyOnly: masterKeyOnly,
           });
         });
diff --git a/src/lib/decodeConfigValue.js b/src/lib/decodeConfigValue.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..442446fead
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/decodeConfigValue.js
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016-present, Parse, LLC
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
+ * the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+import Parse from 'parse';
+
+export default function decodeConfigValue(value) {
+  if (value && typeof value === 'object') {
+    if (value.__type === 'File') {
+      return Parse.File.fromJSON(value);
+    }
+    if (value.__type === 'GeoPoint') {
+      return new Parse.GeoPoint(value);
+    }
+    if (value.__type === 'Date') {
+      return new Date(value.iso);
+    }
+  }
+  return value;
+}
diff --git a/src/lib/tests/decodeConfigValue.test.js b/src/lib/tests/decodeConfigValue.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0b509e559f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/tests/decodeConfigValue.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,39 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2016-present, Parse, LLC
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * This source code is licensed under the license found in the LICENSE file in
+ * the root directory of this source tree.
+ */
+jest.dontMock('../decodeConfigValue');
+
+const decodeConfigValue = require('../decodeConfigValue').default;
+const Parse = require('parse');
+
+describe('decodeConfigValue', () => {
+  it('rehydrates a wire-format Date into a Date instance', () => {
+    const result = decodeConfigValue({ __type: 'Date', iso: '2024-05-05T00:36:00.000Z' });
+    expect(result instanceof Date).toBe(true);
+    expect(result.toISOString()).toBe('2024-05-05T00:36:00.000Z');
+  });
+
+  it('passes a real Date through unchanged', () => {
+    const d = new Date('2024-05-05T00:36:00.000Z');
+    expect(decodeConfigValue(d)).toBe(d);
+  });
+
+  it('rehydrates a File wire object', () => {
+    const result = decodeConfigValue({ __type: 'File', name: 'f.png', url: 'https://x/f.png' });
+    expect(result instanceof Parse.File).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('rehydrates a GeoPoint wire object', () => {
+    const result = decodeConfigValue({ __type: 'GeoPoint', latitude: 1, longitude: 2 });
+    expect(result instanceof Parse.GeoPoint).toBe(true);
+  });
+
+  it('passes primitives through', () => {
+    expect(decodeConfigValue('x')).toBe('x');
+    expect(decodeConfigValue(42)).toBe(42);
+  });
+});