Cannot read property length of undefined

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I’m doing the Confluence app tutorial and seeing the following error on my Confluence page:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of undefined
    at Object.App [as type] (index.js:12679:60)
    at index.js:12834:36
    at async asyncMap (index.js:12769:24)
    at async index.js:12790:29
    at async asyncMap (index.js:12769:24)
    at async index.js:12852:23
    at async index.js:12720:31

I’m fairly sure I did everything right, but here’s my source code.

import ForgeUI, { render, Fragment, Macro, Text, useProductContext, useState } from "@forge/ui";
import api, { route } from "@forge/api";

const fetchCommentsForContent = async (contentId) => {
  const res = await api
  .asUser()
  .requestConfluence(route`/rest/api/content/${contentId}/child/comment`);

  const data = await res.json();
  return data.results;
};

const App = () => {
  const context = useProductContext();
  const [comments] = useState(async () => await fetchCommentsForContent(context.contentId));
  console.log(`Number of comments on this page: ${comments.length}`);

  return (
    
    <Fragment>
      <Text>Hello world!</Text>
      <Text>Number of comments on this page:</Text>
    </Fragment>
  );
};

export const run = render(
  <Macro
    app={<App />}
  />
);
2

Hi @kestrel17 ,

I suspect Confluence doesn’t think your app has the right permissions so it’s returning an error object in which there is no comments node. Did you add the read:confluence-content.summary permission to your manifest? It should look as follows:

permissions:
  scopes:
    - read:confluence-content.summary

To confirm this, maybe add console.log(data); in the fetchCommentsForContent method to see what is being returned.

If I’m right, you’ll need to run forge install --upgrade and re-consent to the app. Alternatively, uninstalling the app and then re-installing the app will ensure the right version is running with the correct permissions.

Regards,
Dugald

3

Wish that was mentioned in the tutorial… Thank you.

4

I’ve filed an issue to improve the documentation. Unfortunately it’s only internally visible, but the reference is DOCS-10540 in case anyone want to chase me up on its status.