fix: destination would fail when a source reporte

d columns without any type
fixes glideapps/glide#29913

airbyte-integrations/connectors/destination-glide/destination_glide/destination.py

@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def create_table_client_for_stream(stream_name, columns):
             columns = []
             properties = configured_stream.stream.json_schema["properties"]
             for (prop_name, prop) in properties.items():
-                prop_type = prop["type"]
+                prop_type = prop["type"] if "type" in prop else ""
                 logger.debug(f"Found column/property '{prop_name}' with type '{prop_type}' in stream {configured_stream.stream.name}.")  # nopep8
                 columns.append(
                     Column(prop_name, airbyteTypeToGlideType(prop_type))

airbyte-integrations/connectors/destination-glide/unit_tests/destination_test.py

@@ -130,6 +130,68 @@ def test_write_simple(self, mock_factory: Callable):
         self.assertEqual(
             "commit", mock_bigtable.mock_calls[3][CALL_METHOD_NAME_INDEX])
 
+
+    @patch.object(GlideBigTableFactory, "create")
+    def test_write_source_schema_without_type(self, mock_factory: Callable):
+        """
+        This tests a case where the source schema has a property without a type. 
+        This happened with Github's "issues" stream for a property.
+        """
+        mock_bigtable = CreateMockGlideBigTable()
+        mock_factory.return_value = mock_bigtable
+
+        destination = DestinationGlide()
+
+        # create a schema with a property that has no type:
+        my_schema = {
+            "type": "object",
+            "properties": {
+                "key_str": {"type": "string"},
+                "no_type_col": {}
+            },
+        }
+
+        generator = destination.write(
+            config=create_default_config(),
+            configured_catalog=create_configured_catalog_default(self.test_table_name,
+                                                                 table_schema=my_schema),
+            input_messages=[
+                AirbyteMessage(
+                    type=Type.RECORD,
+                    record=AirbyteRecordMessage(
+                        stream=self.test_table_name, data={"key_str": f"row {0}", "no_type_col": f"row {0}"}, emitted_at=int(datetime.now().timestamp()) * 1000
+                    ),
+                ),
+            ]
+        )
+
+         # invoke the generator to get the results:
+        result = list(generator)
+        self.assertEqual(0, len(result))
+
+        # ensure it called init, multiple add_rows, followed by commit:
+        self.assertEqual(3, len(mock_bigtable.mock_calls))
+        # NOTE: the call objects in Mock.mock_calls, are three-tuples of (name, positional args, keyword args).
+        CALL_METHOD_NAME_INDEX = 0
+        EXPECTED_CALLS = ["init", "add_row", "commit"]
+        # now loop through each expected call and make sure it was found in the list of actual calls made by the destination:
+        for expected_call in EXPECTED_CALLS:
+            found = False
+            for actual_call in mock_bigtable.mock_calls:
+                if actual_call[CALL_METHOD_NAME_INDEX] == expected_call:
+                    found = True
+                    break
+            self.assertTrue(found, f"Expected call {expected_call} not found in actual calls")
+
+        # get the columns we passed into the big table during init and verify the type defaulted to string:
+        ARGS_INDEX = 1
+        init_call_args = mock_bigtable.mock_calls[0][ARGS_INDEX]        
+        ARGS_INDEX_COLUMNS = 2
+        columns = init_call_args[ARGS_INDEX_COLUMNS]
+        col_no_type = [col for col in columns if col.id() == "no_type_col"]
+        self.assertEqual(col_no_type[0].type(), "string")
+
+
     @patch.object(GlideBigTableFactory, "create")
     def test_write_with_checkpoints(self, mock_factory: Callable):
         """