ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE when running npx setup-cordova-import-npm about cordova-import-npm

[jfoclpf]

@alexfederlin I don't have Windows, so it's a bit hard for me to test it.
Could you kindly try now? I've already updated on npm also.

[jfoclpf]

Great that it worked

But now try to edit the file npmFilesToImport.json according to instructions and then run cordova prepare

If anything fails, please let me know such that I fix it.

Thanks for reporting the bug

[jfoclpf]

it appears process.env.INIT_CWD is undefined on your side, since it's breaking on this line.

Can you try to test by doing console.log(process.env.INIT_CWD) and check the output?

Anyway I was checking and it seems to be a bug with node on Windows, which may be solved with this npm package.

I'll try to fix it ASAP

[alexfederlin]

You are right, INIT_CWD is undefined:

λ node
Welcome to Node.js v14.17.1.
Type ".help" for more information.
> console.log(process.env.INIT_CWD)
undefined
undefined

When I tab complete, the following options come up:

> console.log(process.env.
process.env.__defineGetter__                 process.env.__defineSetter__
process.env.__lookupGetter__                 process.env.__lookupSetter__
process.env.__proto__                        process.env.hasOwnProperty
process.env.isPrototypeOf                    process.env.propertyIsEnumerable
process.env.toLocaleString                   process.env.toString
process.env.valueOf

process.env.constructor

process.env.ALLUSERSPROFILE                  process.env.ANDROID_SDK_ROOT
process.env.APPDATA                          process.env.COMPUTERNAME
process.env.ChocolateyInstall                process.env.ChocolateyLastPathUpdate
process.env.ComSpec                          process.env.CommonProgramFiles
process.env.CommonProgramW6432               process.env.DriverData
process.env.EMAIL                            process.env.FPS_BROWSER_APP_PROFILE_STRING
process.env.FPS_BROWSER_USER_PROFILE_STRING  process.env.HOMEDRIVE
process.env.HOMEPATH                         process.env.INTEL_DEV_REDIST
process.env.JAVA_HOME                        process.env.JD2_HOME
process.env.LOCALAPPDATA                     process.env.LOGONSERVER
process.env.MIC_LD_LIBRARY_PATH              process.env.NUMBER_OF_PROCESSORS
process.env.OS                               process.env.OneDrive
process.env.OneDriveConsumer                 process.env.PATHEXT
process.env.PROCESSOR_ARCHITECTURE           process.env.PROCESSOR_IDENTIFIER
process.env.PROCESSOR_LEVEL                  process.env.PROCESSOR_REVISION
process.env.PROMPT                           process.env.PSModulePath
process.env.PUBLIC                           process.env.Path
process.env.ProgramData                      process.env.ProgramFiles
process.env.ProgramW6432                     process.env.SESSIONNAME
process.env.SystemDrive                      process.env.SystemRoot
process.env.TEMP                             process.env.TMP
process.env.USERDOMAIN                       process.env.USERDOMAIN_ROAMINGPROFILE
process.env.USERNAME                         process.env.USERPROFILE
process.env.windir

> console.log(process.env.

To make sure I started again from scratch with the new version:

λ cordova create . com.test test
Creating a new cordova project.

D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin) ([email protected])
λ npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.

See `npm help init` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.

Use `npm install <pkg>` afterwards to install a package and
save it as a dependency in the package.json file.

Press ^C at any time to quit.
package name: (com.test)
version: (1.0.0)
git repository:
license: (Apache-2.0)
About to write to D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\package.json:

{
  "name": "com.test",
  "displayName": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A sample Apache Cordova application that responds to the deviceready event.",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "ecosystem:cordova"
  ],
  "author": "Apache Cordova Team",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "devDependencies": {
    "cordova-plugin-whitelist": "^1.3.4"
  },
  "cordova": {
    "plugins": {
      "cordova-plugin-whitelist": {}
    }
  }
}


Is this OK? (yes)

D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin) ([email protected])
λ npm install cordova-import-npm
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

+ [email protected]
added 10 packages from 53 contributors and audited 10 packages in 3.128s
found 0 vulnerabilities


D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin) ([email protected])
λ npx setup-cordova-import-npm
Setup script called from undefined
Editing config.xml:D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\config.xml
No hooks in root widget of config.xml, adding new one:
  <hook src="node_modules/cordova-import-npm/scripts/importNpmPackages.js" type="before_prepare"/>
config.xml edited with success
events.js:352
      throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
      ^

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "path" argument must be of type string. Received undefined
    at validateString (internal/validators.js:124:11)
    at Object.join (path.js:424:7)
    at createnJsonFile (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\cordova-import-npm\scripts\setupCordovaImportNpm.js:79:25)
    at D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\cordova-import-npm\scripts\setupCordovaImportNpm.js:73:3
    at Parser.<anonymous> (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\xml2js\lib\parser.js:304:18)
    at Parser.emit (events.js:375:28)
    at SAXParser.onclosetag (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\xml2js\lib\parser.js:262:26)
    at emit (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:624:35)
    at emitNode (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:629:5)
    at closeTag (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\sax\lib\sax.js:889:7)
Emitted 'error' event on Parser instance at:
    at Parser.exports.Parser.Parser.parseString (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\xml2js\lib\parser.js:327:16)
    at Parser.parseString (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\xml2js\lib\parser.js:5:59)
    at Object.<anonymous> (D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\cordova-import-npm\scripts\setupCordovaImportNpm.js:29:8)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1085:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1114:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:950:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:790:14)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:76:12)
    at internal/main/run_main_module.js:17:47 {
  code: 'ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE'
}

[jfoclpf]

@alexfederlin I had missed some issues, I already updated npm, can you kindly test again now (from scratch)?

As said I have no Windows, thus I have to rely on you to help me :)

Thanks

[alexfederlin]

Well thank YOU for fixing my issue ;-)

This looks pretty good!

Not sure why I had to run npm twice again, here's the logfile and the output
2021-07-02T06_34_10_775Z-debug.log

D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin)
λ ls -la
total 16
drwxr-xr-x 1 alex 197121 0 Jul  2 08:33 ./
drwxr-xr-x 1 alex 197121 0 Jul  1 21:55 ../

D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin)
λ cordova create . com.test test
Creating a new cordova project.

D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin) ([email protected])
λ npm init
This utility will walk you through creating a package.json file.
It only covers the most common items, and tries to guess sensible defaults.

See `npm help init` for definitive documentation on these fields
and exactly what they do.

Use `npm install <pkg>` afterwards to install a package and
save it as a dependency in the package.json file.

Press ^C at any time to quit.
package name: (com.test)
version: (1.0.0)
git repository:
license: (Apache-2.0)
About to write to D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\package.json:

{
  "name": "com.test",
  "displayName": "test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "description": "A sample Apache Cordova application that responds to the deviceready event.",
  "main": "index.js",
  "scripts": {
    "test": "echo \"Error: no test specified\" && exit 1"
  },
  "keywords": [
    "ecosystem:cordova"
  ],
  "author": "Apache Cordova Team",
  "license": "Apache-2.0",
  "devDependencies": {
    "cordova-plugin-whitelist": "^1.3.4"
  },
  "cordova": {
    "plugins": {
      "cordova-plugin-whitelist": {}
    }
  }
}


Is this OK? (yes)

D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin) ([email protected])
λ npm install cordova-import-npm
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

npm ERR! code ENOENT
npm ERR! syscall rename
npm ERR! path D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\universalify
npm ERR! dest D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\.universalify.DELETE
npm ERR! errno -4058
npm ERR! enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory, rename 'D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\universalify' -> 'D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\node_modules\.universalify.DELETE'
npm ERR! enoent This is related to npm not being able to find a file.
npm ERR! enoent

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\alex\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2021-07-02T06_34_10_775Z-debug.log

D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin) ([email protected])
λ npm install cordova-import-npm
npm notice created a lockfile as package-lock.json. You should commit this file.
npm WARN [email protected] No repository field.

+ [email protected]
added 7 packages from 52 contributors and audited 10 packages in 0.864s
found 0 vulnerabilities


D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test (master -> origin) ([email protected])
λ npx setup-cordova-import-npm
Setup script called from D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test
Editing config.xml:D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\config.xml
No hooks in root widget of config.xml, adding new one:
  <hook src="node_modules/cordova-import-npm/scripts/importNpmPackages.js" type="before_prepare"/>
config.xml edited with success
Empty file D:\alex\Dropbox\Dropbox\Projects\phonegap\BeginningNFC\test\npmFilesToImport.json created
For syntax on this file check: https://github.com/jfoclpf/cordova-import-npm

Thanks again. I think this can now be closed...

[jfoclpf]

BTW, I suppose that you must always run npm install after you create the cordova project, that's why you needed to run twice.