How do i connect to dgraph using the nodejs client via ssl?

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I’m trying to connect my api service to the dgraph (slash) server.

I create the certificate files with:

dgraph cert
dgraph certs -n gas-person-5102.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io:443
dgraph cert -c dgraphuser

This doesn’t work:

E0908 22:13:56.260000000  6708 ssl_transport_security.cc:1245] Handshake failed with fatal error SSL_ERROR_SSL: error:1000007d:SSL routines:OPENSSL_internal:CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED.

i suspect i’m not creating the certificates the correct way, could someone help me with this ?

The address for the slash instance is gas-person-5102.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io:443

The api service is hosted on zeit.

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@Anurag is currently working on better support in the various clients, so we should have a public PR in a few days.

In the meanwhile, your grpc endpoint is gas-person-5102.grpc.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io:443 (note the extra grpc in the hostname).

You will have to do two things:

  1. Use your system’s SSL CA pool
  2. Pass the auth key to every request on the channel.

We have a python example here: https://dgraph.io/docs/slash-graphql/advanced-queries/ and an example with dgo here: dgraph/main.go at master · dgraph-io/dgraph · GitHub.

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@gja Thanks for the help, sorry i’m not sure how to use my system’s ssl ca pool. Are there any tutorials you could point me to ?

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@Anurag Hi, how’s this going ?

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I am also trying to follow the Go example above (which btw only found it here as opposed to any official docs anywhere).

I end up with the following error:

rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing dial tcp: address https://mogudev.grpc.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io:443: too many colons in address"

If I remove the “:443” I get a different error:

rpc error: code = Unavailable desc = connection error: desc = "transport: Error while dialing dial tcp: lookup tcp///mogudev.grpc.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io: nodename nor servname provided, or not known"

I know I’m doing something wrong somewhere, but it is a tad frustrating that I’ve spent the better part of a day just trying to configure a client connection :slight_smile:

Thanks!

UPDATE: looks like I just needed to remove the scheme (https) from my URL.

Would love some official more clear docs on this especially on the Client Libraries page https://dgraph.io/docs/clients/

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@marwan-at-work Following PR (feat(Slash gRPC Client): Add gRPC support for Slash endpoints. by anurags92 · Pull Request #137 · dgraph-io/dgo · GitHub) introduces an easier way to connect directly for gRPC requests;

graphQlEndpoint := "https://xxx.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io/graphql"
apiKey := ""
dg, _ := dgo.DialSlashGraphQLEndpoint(graphQlEndpoint, apiKey)
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@Anurag that’s great. Thank you. Would love to see more docs on this so that people can find this function easier.

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Yeah, I also just found it by using godoc.org instead of pkg.go.dev.

We will need to massively improve our docs.

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Quick update: we’ve gotten support into Python and Golang. We’ve been struggling with node because I don’t think node-grpc supports system SSL certs for some reason. Hopefully more updates here soon

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Alright thanks, i’ll have to port my code to the dgraph-js-http library

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@scroobius-pip This PR Update gRPC library in dgraph-js to use gRPC-js by anurags92 · Pull Request #125 · dgraph-io/dgraph-js · GitHub extends dgraph-js client. You can use

const clientStub = new dgraph.clientStubFromSlashGraphQLEndpoint(
  graphQlEndpoint,
  apiKey
);
const dgraphClient = new dgraph.DgraphClient(clientStub);

to connect directly to dgraph.

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what version of the library is this ? The latest version on npm hasn’t changed.

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I forked the repo and published my version on npm, but i’m still having issues with this.
I’m getting an error:
Error: 14 UNAVAILABLE: Name resolution failed for target dns:.grpc.:443

I’m using https://gas-person-5102.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io as the url

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Can you use https://gas-person-5102.us-west-2.aws.cloud.dgraph.io/graphql as the URL and try pls?

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This worked thank you !

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I suppose the latest npm package was published as well. @paulftw could you confirm if that’s correct?

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yup i’m currently using it

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but i’m facing another issue with apikey. I’ll create a new topic for it