Error when creating a new plaid Client object

[thecoolwinter]

I'm running plaid in a node.js 10 environment, in a GCP cloud function. When using the sandbox, my initialization went fine. But, now that I've moved into development mode, the initialization throws this error:

functions: Error: Missing Plaid "secret"
    at new Client (/Users/.../functions/functions/node_modules/plaid/lib/PlaidClient.js:20:11)
    at initPlaid (/Users/.../functions/functions/index.js:36:23)
    at /Users/.../functions/functions/index.js:168:5
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:583:20
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:558:19
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:8:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:4:12)
    at runFunction (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:555:12)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:582:15
    at Generator.next (<anonymous>)
    at /usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:8:71
    at new Promise (<anonymous>)
    at __awaiter (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:4:12)
    at runHTTPS (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/firebase-tools/lib/emulator/functionsEmulatorRuntime.js:578:12)

Here's the code I'm using to make the Client object. I've made sure each variable is giving a valid string with the correct secrets and everything.

plaidClient = new plaid.Client({
            clientID: plaidClientId,
            secret: plaidSecret,
            env: plaid.environments.development,
            options: {
              version: '2019-05-29', 
            }
          })

[thecoolwinter]

I've figured it out. In the /lib/PlaidClient.js the function params don't match what's in the example and getting started pages. Instead of passing an object, it takes four strings and an options object.

function Client(client_id, secret, public_key, env, options) {
    ...

I was getting this error because plaid was finding the secret param nil.

If someone could update the README it'd be useful for future people.

[gorbat-o]

What is supposed to be the public_key when we are not supposed to use it anymore?
It says link_token. Which I also don't understand why it is here, because we are supposed to use it to get the publicTokenExchange.
I am trying to create the link token with plaidClient.createLinkToken

My init looks like this:

const plaidClient = new plaid.Client({
    clientID: functions.config().plaid.clientid,
    secret: functions.config().plaid.secret,
    env: plaid.environments.development,
});

The Client init checks for these:

if (!R.is(Object, configs)) {
    throw new Error('Unexpected parameter type. ' +
    'Refer to https://github.com/plaid/plaid-node ' +
    'for how to create a Plaid client.');
  }

  if (R.isNil(configs.clientID)) {
    throw new Error('Missing Plaid "clientID"');
  }

  if (R.isNil(configs.secret)) {
    throw new Error('Missing Plaid "secret"');
  }

  if (!R.any(R.equals(configs.env), R.values(plaidEnvironments))) {
    throw new Error('Invalid Plaid environment');
  }

So it seems that it should be fine in my case, but it is not.

Edit: I changed it to not have an object anymore.

const plaid = require("plaid");
const plaidClient = new plaid.Client(functions.config().plaid.clientid,
functions.config().plaid.secret,
plaid.environments.dev,
);

Now it says invalide Plaid env

Edit 2: I changed plaid.environments.development to plaid.environments.dev.
Now it says that it is missing the public_key. Which is??? we are not supposed to use a public_key...

even here it says that I do the thing right 😅 https://plaid.com/docs/link/link-token-migration-guide/

[gorbat-o]

Alright, the solution is to actually use what the documentation says.
as of this:

const plaidClient = new plaid.Client({
    clientID: functions.config().plaid.clientid,
    secret: functions.config().plaid.secret,
    env: plaid.environments.development,
});

And to be sure you are using at least the version 7.0.0.
For some reason when adding a package with npm, it is installing the 2.1.0 which is absolutely not right.

[killerrings]

It's still fetching me some error and I'm not being able to find a way around it.

[sarthak-arora1997]

i am getting the exact same error, any form of help would be really appreciated, very close to my deadline for this one, please help !!