[gatsby-source-contentful] Error at fresh installment

Hey. I’m currently trying to setup a basic gatsby site with the contentful-source-plugin. Last week everything went pretty great, until that moment I had to show off my results and - bam - the whole thing went down in 5 minutes. I had no success in recreating and debugging.

Specifically gatsby-source-contentful errors out with the following: entryItemFields[foreignReference.name].push is not a function

Preconditions: node -v: 8.9.1 gatsby-cli -v: 1.1.24 gatsby-cource-contentful version: tried everyone from 1.3.20 to 1.3.28

Steps to reproduce:

1. npm i -g gatsby-cli
2. gatsby new testdir && cd testdir
3. yarn add gatsby-source-contentful -S
4. Editing gatsby-config.js

plugins: [
    {
      resolve: `gatsby-source-contentful`,
      options: {
        spaceId: `MY_CORRECT_SPACEID`,
        accessToken: `MY_CORRECT_ACCESS_TOKEN`,
      },
    },
    `gatsby-plugin-react-helmet`
  ],

1. (optionally) Editing gatsby-node.js and inserting/editing code from example gatsby-contentful-site

Thanks for any help!

[captainsask]

Just wondering if there had been any updates on this issue. I’m seeing the same thing as soon as I added references into my contentful data. It seems to be happening on build or develop. I tried using the previous method of deleting the redux-state.json in cache then rerunning but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

[e1moreno]

@cpannwitz I fully agree. I was able to circumvent the issue for about a day. I had to redo the Content models and content to get it to work. Luckily, I am at testing so this is no big deal. However, once I had the need to edit the content. The issue appeared again.

Like you I noticed the following:

• References are dropped altogether. For my edited contents the references were null. Untouched elements remained pristine. Note, gatsby did launch and did not error out on compile time
• The issue with compile time occurred when I deleted those invalid elements. It is like they are negotiating on the deleted element. I would have to recreate the deleted element for gatsby to compile.

At this point, I would like to know what do we do from here? What is the next step and I’ll take it.