Local - Google Auth / Service calls

Renderer

• Legacy
• v3

Browser

Edge

Operating System

Windows

What happened?

Hallo,

I followed the Quick Start guide trying to get a local copy of Homebrewery running. This results in an error on startup, since I’ve not configured my localhost to work with Google Docs.

> node server.js

Error: Must pass in a JSON object containing the Google auth settings.
    at AuthPlus.fromJSON (C:\homebrewery\node_modules\google-auth-library\build\src\auth\googleauth.js:298:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\homebrewery\server\googleActions.js:13:28)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1153:10)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:981:32)
    at Function.Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:822:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1005:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:94:18)
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\homebrewery\server\homebrew.api.js:6:23)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1101:14)
Please make sure that a Google Service Account is set up properly in your config files.
server on port: 8000

Additionally, when I try to use the local API to PUT changes to a Brew, I get Gaxios errors:

GaxiosError: Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded. Continued use requires signup.
    at Gaxios._request (C:\homebrewery\node_modules\gaxios\build\src\gaxios.js:130:23)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:96:5)

Any chance there can be a disabler wrapper around the various Google service calls?

Code

No response

[Gazook89]

So in googleActions.js can we just log a different message if there are no keys returned after checking config.js?

erver change detected: server/googleActions.js
  Restarting ./server.js
No Google Service Account in config files - Google Drive functionality will not function.
server on port: 8000

This greatly abbreviates the error message while still making it clear that google drive isn’t setup, but doesn’t lead someone to think they’ve actually made a mistake that needs to be fixed (to run locally).

The current error would still display if there is a service account in config.js which isn’t setup properly…and the full error message would be displayed.

This would be a huge improvement for me personally. I have a PR for this #2528

[JeremyVyska]

That would be good, though definitely low priority compared to all the lovely other things you have going on.

I was starting to tinker with making a Visual Studio Code extension that allowed Homebrewery to run inside VSC to see Markdown editing inside that context, and I’ll have enough of my own error messages to triage I’m sure. 😄