How to call api-methods with the vector in args?

[FragsterAt]

such as https://core.telegram.org/method/contacts.importContacts

i try this code:

              let contact = {
                client_id: 1, //long
                phone: 'phone', //string
                first_name: 'name', //string
                last_name: 'name' //strings
              };
              let cont = new tl.TypeVector({type: 'InputContact', list: [contact]});
              return client.callApi('contacts.importContacts', cont, true);

but have an error:

TypeError: Cannot read property 'serialize' of undefined

[goodmind]

You should use client.schema.type.InputPhoneContact constructor for contact

[goodmind]

/cc @FragsterAt

[FragsterAt]

@goodmind , folloving code generate an error
c1 = new client.schema.type.InputPhoneContact(contact);

undefined:4
this.constructor.util._extend(this, opts.props);
^

TypeError: Cannot read property '_extend' of undefined
at Object.eval [as InputPhoneContact] (eval at createConstructor (/home/antonio/work/shedsender/shedsender/node_modules/telegram-mtproto/lib/tl/builder/constructor-builder.js:100:27), :4:23)

[FragsterAt]

at Object.eval [as InputPhoneContact] (eval at createConstructor (///node_modules/telegram-mtproto/lib/tl/builder/constructor-builder.js:100:27), <anonymous>:4:23)
at Object.<anonymous> (///importContacts.js:93:25)
at Module._compile (module.js:570:32)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:579:10)
at Module.load (module.js:487:32)
at tryModuleLoad (module.js:446:12)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:438:3)
at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)

[FragsterAt]

this is also wrong :(

let contact = {
                client_id: 1, //long
                phone: '12345678901', //string
                first_name: 'name', //string
                last_name: 'name' //strings
              };
let cont = new tl.TypeVector({type: 'InputContact', list: ([contact]).map((elem) => {
		return new client.schema.type.InputPhoneContact(elem);
	})});
			return client.callApi('contacts.importContacts', {contacts: cont, replace: true});

[zerobias]

Hi. Currently, I'm doing a new API for such cases, because current one came from 2014 and it's really buggy and unsound.

[zerobias]

I will upload new module within two or three days, stay tuned

[FragsterAt]

@zerobias Hello! I saw a lot of commits. They have a solution of my problem? NPM version also updated, or better to clone the repository in my project? (This involves some problems when I deploy an application on the production server)

[FragsterAt]

@goodmind @zerobias Guys, documentation is very important thing!
the right way to create vectors for requests is pass object with 'props' property:
let cont = new tl.TypeVector({type: 'InputContact', list: ([contact]).map((elem) => {
return new client.schema.type.InputPhoneContact({props:elem});
})});
the right way to pass parameters to the call - object with properties equal to the parameter names from api.telegram.org
also bug with non latin characters is present enricostara/telegram.link#34 ...

Unfortunately, I'm new to git and I do not know how to do pull request for README.md and bugfix for non-Latin characters in strings, so please do it yourself!

[goodmind]

There is fix for this in goodmind/telegram-tl-node@66613a8. We need to just merge some fixes in @zerobias's version, but we are dropped working on @enricostara's version and forked zhukov/webogram to zerobias/telegram-mtproto#mtproto2. I agree with you about documentation but we want to make treact works firstly

[goodmind]

@FragsterAt non-latin characters fixed in e476c5c