Production NodeBB can not started due to error TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'uid')

nullpointer

My NodeBB forum in production can not started due to this error:

2023-07-28T00:36:19.835Z [4567/2314] - error: TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'uid')

This error located in:

// src/meta/configs.js:177:39

plugins.hooks.register('core', {
		hook: 'filter:settings.get',
		method: async ({ plugin, values }) => {
			if (plugin === 'core.api' && Array.isArray(values.tokens)) {
				values.tokens = values.tokens.map((tokenObj) => {
					tokenObj.uid = parseInt(tokenObj.uid, 10);
					if (tokenObj.timestamp) {
						tokenObj.timestampISO = new Date(parseInt(tokenObj.timestamp, 10)).toISOString();
					}

					return tokenObj;
				});
			}

			return { plugin, values };
		},
	});

What is the possible cause of this error? I tried to use my dev mongodb and the error gone. I think there is some missing or broken data in my mongodb, but I dont know what it is. Is there anything I need to check?

Thanks in advance.

nullpointer

I tried to debug the code and I found this:

2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null
2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null
2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null
2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null
2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null
2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null
2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null
2023-07-28T01:25:03.957Z [4567/3584] - verbose: tokenObj null

some of the tokenObj is null. Why is this happen ?

<baris>

What version is this happening on? That code probably needs to check for valid tokenObj before accessing. Please open an issue on our github.

nullpointer

@baris it is v3.1.4

I have added this condition:

if(tokenObj) {
     tokenObj.uid = parseInt(tokenObj.uid, 10);
     if (tokenObj.timestamp) {
         tokenObj.timestampISO = new Date(parseInt(tokenObj.timestamp, 10)).toISOString();
     }

 return tokenObj;
 }

The NodeBB now can running successfully but I still can not access the dashboard

<baris>

Seems like all that code is gone in latest 3.x so the issue might be resolved already.