node web3.js returning TypeError

[Sam-Devs]

Expected behaviour

I expected it to return the value of the smart contract I called.

Actual behavior

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

1. [First step]
2. [Second step]
3. [and so on...]

Logs

I ran node web3.js in the terminal to test contract functions and it returned
internal/validators.js:125
throw new ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE(name, 'string', value);
^

TypeError [ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE]: The "id" argument must be of type string. Received type object
at validateString (internal/validators.js:125:11)
at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:632:3)
at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:22:18)
at Object. (D:\Sammy\Projects\Altostream-Smartcontract\Web3\web3.js:5:14)
at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:701:30)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:712:10)
at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:600:32)
at tryModuleLoad (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:539:12)
at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:531:3)
at Function.Module.runMain (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:754:12)
at startup (internal/bootstrap/node.js:283:19)
at bootstrapNodeJSCore (internal/bootstrap/node.js:622:3)

Environment

node version v10
web3 v1.2.11
Windows 10

[GregTheGreek]

Are you able to provide reproducible example for us?

[NicolasKritter]

It looks like you you try to call a function of your smart contract with an argument that is of the wrong type (id should be a string and not an object).

It seems it is a normal behavior as web3 checks the arg type before making the request.

try to log the arguments before making the call and see what happens

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