Dgraph-js (v 20.3.1) Channel credentials must be a ChannelCredentials object

Issues Dgraph Clients
1

When upgrading to the latest version of dgraph-js (v20.3.1), I’m getting the following error:

TypeError: Channel credentials must be a ChannelCredentials object
    at new ChannelImplementation (/Users/akari/cute-git/dtest/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/channel.js:69:19)
    at new Client (/Users/akari/cute-git/dtest/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/client.js:58:36)
    at new ServiceClientImpl (/Users/akari/cute-git/dtest/node_modules/@grpc/grpc-js/build/src/make-client.js:50:5)
    at new DgraphClientStub (/Users/akari/cute-git/dtest/node_modules/dgraph-js/lib/clientStub.js:55:21)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/akari/cute-git/dtest/test.js:4:20)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1076:30)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1097:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:941:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:782:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:72:12)

I made a new test project with the following js:

const dgraph = require("dgraph-js")
const grpc = require("grpc")

const clientStub = new dgraph.DgraphClientStub(
        "localhost:9080",
        grpc.credentials.createInsecure()
)
const dgraphClient = new dgraph.DgraphClient(clientStub)
async function test() {
        const op = new dgraph.Operation()
        op.setSchema(`
                type Abc {
                        cats
                }
                cats: float .
        `)
        op.setRunInBackground(true)
        await dgraphClient.alter(op)
}
test()

The package.json is as follows:

{
  "name": "dtest",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "ISC",
  "dependencies": {
    "dgraph-js": "^20.3.1",
    "grpc": "^1.24.3"
  }
}

The previous version (v20.3.0) works without any issues.

2

Could you remove grpc = require("grpc") and try again?

Need not pass insecure channel here, since that is the default.

const clientStub = new dgraph.DgraphClientStub(
        "localhost:9080",
        grpc.credentials.createInsecure()
)
3

Thank you. That fixed the problem.

The github for dgraph-js shows the old way of initializing DgraphClientStub. It may be helpful to update this information going forward.

Thanks again!

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