Error trying to create basic item

[ap1969]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a basic item via the CLI:

bw get template item | jq '.name = "dev_mariadb_master_pvc"' | bw encode | bw create item

But doing this, I get the error:

(node:25703) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'uris' of null at Function.toView (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:95146:17) at Function.toView (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:95232:49) at create_command_CreateCommand.<anonymous> (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102561:82) at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at create_command_awaiter (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102511:71) at new Promise (<anonymous>) at create_command_awaiter (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102507:12) at create_command_CreateCommand.createCipher (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102560:16) at create_command_CreateCommand.<anonymous> (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102549:39) at Generator.next (<anonymous>) (node:25703) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 2) (node:25703) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code. root@util:~/devenv# bw get template item | jq '.name = "dev_mariadb_master_pvc"' | bw encode | bw create item (node:25773) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'uris' of null at Function.toView (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:95146:17) at Function.toView (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:95232:49) at create_command_CreateCommand.<anonymous> (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102561:82) at Generator.next (<anonymous>) at create_command_awaiter (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102511:71) at new Promise (<anonymous>) at create_command_awaiter (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102507:12) at create_command_CreateCommand.createCipher (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102560:16) at create_command_CreateCommand.<anonymous> (/snapshot/cli/build/bw.js:102549:39) at Generator.next (<anonymous>) (node:25773) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: Unhandled promise rejection. This error originated either by throwing inside of an async function without a catch block, or by rejecting a promise which was not handled with .catch(). (rejection id: 2) (node:25773) [DEP0018] DeprecationWarning: Unhandled promise rejections are deprecated. In the future, promise rejections that are not handled will terminate the Node.js process with a non-zero exit code.

I can create a folder fine using your documentation example:
bw get template folder | jq '.name = "My Folder"' | bw encode | bw create folder

Can you help by providing working item creation code, for a secure note, please?

Regards,
Andy

[scampi]

According to #22 this is an item of type 1, to which you have to pass a list of uris. For a secure note, pass a type 2. You have to fill out the other object types too, e.g., for fields.

[yngvark]

Answer to original question:

{
  "card": null,
  "favorite": false,
  "fields": [],
  "folderId": null,
  "identity": null,
  "login": null,
  "name": "my_name",
  "notes": "my_secure_note",
  "organizationId": "some-guid",
  "secureNote": "",
  "type": 2
}

Put into a file, bwitem.json.
Use bw list items to find the organizationId.

Then run:
organizationId

cat bwitem.json | bw encode | bw create item

[michael-l-a]

Closed ticket too early:
BW version: 1.9.1

With organization ID, without type:

bw get template item | \
jq '.name = "Test Item" | .organizationId = "*********-****-****-****-******"' | \
bw encode | bw create item

(node:65882) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'uris' of null

With organization ID, with type:

bw get template item | \
jq '.name = "Test Item" | .type = 2 | .organizationId = "*********-****-****-****-******"' | \
bw encode | bw create item

(node:65837) UnhandledPromiseRejectionWarning: TypeError: Cannot read property 'type' of null

[adamwojt]

I created a wrapper with Python that can be added directly to .bashrc or .zshrc. It should work assuming you have python3 in your $PATH.
It is only for my needs so it creates simple items with login, password and name but I guess it is straight forward to modify if you know some Python.

function bwcreate() {
    local python_code=$(cat - <<EOF
import argparse;import json;import secrets;import sys
parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Create bitwarden item')
required = parser.add_argument_group('required named arguments')
required.add_argument('-n', '--name', required=True, help='name of item')
required.add_argument('-l', '--login', required=True)
parser.add_argument('-p', '--password', help='auto generate if empty')
parser.add_argument('-no', '--note')
if len(sys.argv)==1:
    parser.print_help(sys.stderr)
    sys.exit(1)
args = parser.parse_args()
if not args.password:
    args.password = secrets.token_urlsafe(14)
login_data = {'username':args.login,'password':args.password}
data = {'organizationId':None,'folderId':None,'type':1,'name':args.name,'notes':args.note,'favorite':False,'fields':[],'login':None,'secureNote':None,'card':None,'identity':None}
data.update(login=login_data)
print(json.dumps(data))
EOF
    )
    json=$(python3 -c $python_code "$@")
    if (( status != 0 )); then
        return 1
    fi
    echo $json | bw encode | bw create item
}

[jimsnab]

btw, "type" 2 at the root corresponds to "Item Types" table in reference.

The template item.secureNote also has a "type" member. It's unclear what that represents.

[eliykat]

@jimsnab, the secure note type looks to be unused at the moment - it's an enum with only 1 value:

export enum SecureNoteType {
    Generic = 0,
}

You may still have to specify it when you create the item though, I'm not sure.

The other questions in this thread seem to have been discussed and resolved, and it's otherwise been inactive for some time. We use GitHub issues as a place to track bugs and other development related issues, not user support, so I'll close this.

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