added conversion to number before finite check

controller/placeholder.js

@@ -6,6 +6,12 @@ const logger = require('pelias-logger').get('api');
 const logging = require( '../helper/logging' );
 const Document = require('pelias-model').Document;
 
+// composition of toNumber and isFinite, useful for single call to convert a value
+//  to a number, then checking to see if it's finite
+function isFiniteNumber() {
+  return _.flow(_.toNumber, _.isFinite);
+}
+
 // returns true if all 4 ,-delimited (max) substrings are parseable as numbers
 // '12.12,21.21,13.13,31.31'       returns true
 // '12.12,21.21,13.13,blah'        returns false
@@ -13,8 +19,7 @@ const Document = require('pelias-model').Document;
 function validBoundingBox(bbox) {
   return bbox.
     split(',').
-    map(_.toNumber).
-    filter(_.isFinite).length === 4;
+    filter(isFiniteNumber).length === 4;
 }
 
 function synthesizeDocs(result) {
@@ -22,8 +27,10 @@ function synthesizeDocs(result) {
   doc.setName('default', result.name);
 
   // only assign centroid if both lat and lon are finite numbers
-  if (_.conformsTo(result.geom, { 'lat': _.isFinite, 'lon': _.isFinite } )) {
+  if (_.conformsTo(result.geom, { 'lat': isFiniteNumber, 'lon': isFiniteNumber } )) {
     doc.setCentroid( { lat: result.geom.lat, lon: result.geom.lon } );
+  } else {
+    console.error('what\'s up with ' + result.id);
   }
 
   // lodash conformsTo verifies that an object has a property with a certain format
@@ -31,7 +38,7 @@ function synthesizeDocs(result) {
     const parsedBoundingBox = result.geom.bbox.split(',').map(_.toNumber);
     doc.setBoundingBox({
       upperLeft: {
-        lat: parsedBoundingBox[3],
+        lat: +parsedBoundingBox[3],
         lon: parsedBoundingBox[0]
       },
       lowerRight: {

test/unit/controller/placeholder.js

@@ -405,6 +405,65 @@ module.exports.tests.success = (test, common) => {
 
   });
 
+  test('results with string geom.lat/geom.lon should convert to numbers', (t) => {
+    const placeholder_response = [
+      {
+        id: 1,
+        name: 'name 1',
+        placetype: 'neighbourhood',
+        geom: {
+          area: 12.34,
+          lat: '14.141414',
+          lon: '41.414141'
+        }
+      }
+    ];
+
+    const placeholderService = (req, callback) => {
+      t.deepEqual(req, { param1: 'param1 value' });
+      callback(null, placeholder_response);
+    };
+
+    const should_execute = (req, res) => {
+      return true;
+    };
+
+    const controller = placeholder(placeholderService, should_execute);
+
+    const req = { param1: 'param1 value' };
+    const res = { };
+
+    const expected_res = {
+      meta: {},
+      data: [
+        {
+          _id: '1',
+          _type: 'neighbourhood',
+          layer: 'neighbourhood',
+          source: 'whosonfirst',
+          source_id: '1',
+          center_point: {
+            lat: 14.141414,
+            lon: 41.414141
+          },
+          name: {
+            'default': 'name 1'
+          },
+          phrase: {
+            'default': 'name 1'
+          },
+          parent: { }
+        }
+      ]
+    };
+
+    controller(req, res, () => {
+      t.deepEquals(res, expected_res);
+      t.end();
+    });
+
+  });
+
   test('result without geom.bbox should leave bounding_box undefined', (t) => {
     const placeholder_response = [
       {