Returning list of dates in server side action

ihsanzainal84 · 2024-07-09T11:40:18.153Z

My first time building a server side plugin and I need help. Here’s the code:

async function (properties, context) {
    let dates = await properties.dateList.get(0, properties.dateList.length());
    let newDate = await properties.newDate;

    try {
        let scalar = new Date(newDate);

        let updatedDates = dates.map(date => {
            let d = new Date(date);
            d.setFullYear(scalar.getFullYear(), scalar.getMonth(), scalar.getDate());
            return d;
        });


        return {
            new_dates: updatedDates
        };

    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Check your values', error);
    }
}

A version of it runs client side so I don’t think it’s the function and I think I’m handling the return wrong for a server-side function. It’s supposed to return a list of dates.

Hope someone can help

rico.trevisan · 2024-07-09T12:45:44.934Z

I’m an ogre, here’s how I go about troubleshooting this stuff. I’m guessing it’s a type mismatch, I should probably read the docs, but – again, I’m an ogre and I don’t know how, LLMs and I are broken up.

import inspect
add a return item like output
return the inspect
(optional) add a boolean like returnedAnError


async function (properties, context) {
    let dates = await properties.dateList.get(0, properties.dateList.length());
    let newDate = await properties.newDate;
    let { inspect } = require('node:util');

    try {
        let scalar = new Date(newDate);

        let updatedDates = dates.map(date => {
            let d = new Date(date);
            d.setFullYear(scalar.getFullYear(), scalar.getMonth(), scalar.getDate());
            return d;
        });


        return {
//            new_dates: updatedDates,
            output: inspect(updatedDates),
            returnedAnError: false
        };

    } catch (error) {
        console.error('Check your values', error);
        return {
            output: inspect(error),
            returnedAnError: true  
        }
    }
}

When you add that

let { inspect } = require('node:util');

Bubble will automatically add node:util below as a dependency, delete it or you will have errors.

ihsanzainal84 · 2024-07-10T02:51:57.240Z

Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a shot. I just need to figure out the correct return type.

Gonna peek into other plugins too.

ihsanzainal84 · 2024-07-10T10:02:41.234Z

It was such a stupid mistake. I was didn’t await properties.dateList.length()

That’s all. Holy shit that set me back 8 hours of work.