Write API not working

Coman Cosmin

Hello,

I am trying to make an integration between a laravel app and nodebb and i found this plugin that would allow me to interact via cURL.

However, i tried installing it several times, it is not working. At least the route for the admin view.

This is the error i get when i navigate to admin/plugins/write-api:

/admin/plugins/write-api Not Found
You seem to have stumbled upon a page that does not exist. Return to the home page.

Also, in the plugin package.json:

"nbbpm": {
"compatibility": "^0.8.3"
}

And i have the latest version installed, 0.8.2

Thanks in advance

PitaJ

Did you activate it? After activating it, did you restart NodeBB?

Coman Cosmin

Yes @pitaj , and i repeated the process several times. Every other plugin works for me except this one

PitaJ

@Coman-Cosmin Are there any errors in the console when you run ./nodebb dev?

Coman Cosmin

@pitaj Yes, please find the error below:

18/10 15:57 [2727] - error: Error: listen EADDRINUSE
at errnoException (net.js:905:11)
at Server._listen2 (net.js:1043:14)
at listen (net.js:1065:10)
at Server.listen (net.js:1139:5)
at listen (/root/mynodebb/src/webserver.js:180:17)
at /root/mynodebb/src/webserver.js:57:3
at EventEmitter.<anonymous> (/root/mynodebb/src/emitter.js:17:5)
at EventEmitter.emit (events.js:92:17)
at /root/mynodebb/src/meta/css.js14
at /root/mynodebb/node_modules/async/lib/async.js:697:13
18/10 15:57 [2727] - error: NodeBB address in use, exiting...
[cluster] Child Process (2727) has exited (code: 0, signal: null)

Coman Cosmin

Sorry, i did not stop nodebb first. Here is the actual error:

8/10 16:00 [2755] - error: [plugins] Error executing 'static:app.load' in plugin 'nodebb-plugin-write-api'
18/10 16:00 [2755] - error: Error: Cannot find module './src/postTools'
at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:338:15)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:280:25)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (/root/mynodebb/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-write-api/routes/v1/posts.js:4:30)
at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:364:17)
at require (module.js:380:17)

Coman Cosmin

And when i navigate to the route i get:

18/10 16:02 [2755] - warn: Route requested but not found: /api/admin/plugins/write-api?_=1445198550174

PitaJ

@Coman-Cosmin What git hash are you on?

Try running git rev-parse HEAD in the nodebb directory

Coman Cosmin

@pitaj said:

git rev-parse HEAD

Done, i got this: e2f590e0b4d085ae4e2f53f11da642b6b4ec0fcf

PitaJ

@Coman-Cosmin Okay, your problem is that you are on the master branch, which is v0.9.x-dev. To switch, shut down NodeBB and run git checkout v0.8.x. This may make your database unusable, although most of the data should be available still, so back it up before doing this.

Then run npm install and you should be good.

Coman Cosmin

@pitaj said:

npm install

It works now. Thanks a lot for your help. Would have never figured out by myself:)

Awesome idea with this API btw, i almost gave up because i'm not familiar with nodejs, but when i found this plugin i realised that this is no longer an issue:)

Great work guys