Issue with friendbot

Trying to create testnet accounts with the server.friendbot method but I’m getting a type error with the .then .catch promise. Unsure as to why.

export function createAccount() {
  const pair = Stellar.Keypair.random();
  const publicKey = pair.publicKey();

  return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
    Server
    .friendbot(publicKey) 
    .then(() => resolve(pair.secret()))
    .catch((err) => reject(err));
  });
}

It would seem that something is up with the way you’re processing promises for the friendbot method.

[tyvdh]

Tada! Should have known that. Thanks!

I am however often getting this error…

{ NetworkError: 400
    (No stack trace)
From previous event:
    at FriendbotBuilder._sendNormalRequest (/Users/Tyler/Desktop/Web/Colorglyph/colorglyph-meteor/node_modules/stellar-sdk/lib/call_builder.js:216:16)
    at FriendbotBuilder.call (/Users/Tyler/Desktop/Web/Colorglyph/colorglyph-meteor/node_modules/stellar-sdk/lib/call_builder.js:76:21)
    at Promise (server/stellar.js:43:6)
From previous event:
    at createAccount (server/stellar.js:40:10)
    at Meteor.startup (server/stellar.js:17:3)
    at Function.time (/Users/Tyler/Desktop/Web/Colorglyph/colorglyph-meteor/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/profile.js:309:28)
    at /Users/Tyler/Desktop/Web/Colorglyph/colorglyph-meteor/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/boot.js:423:13
    at /Users/Tyler/Desktop/Web/Colorglyph/colorglyph-meteor/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/boot.js:464:5
    at Function.run (/Users/Tyler/Desktop/Web/Colorglyph/colorglyph-meteor/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/profile.js:510:12)
    at /Users/Tyler/Desktop/Web/Colorglyph/colorglyph-meteor/.meteor/local/build/programs/server/boot.js:462:11
  name: 'NetworkError',
  message: 400,
  data: 
   { status: 400,
     statusText: 'Bad Request',
     headers: 
      { 'content-type': 'application/problem+json; charset=utf-8',
        date: 'Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:12:26 GMT',
        vary: 'Origin',
        'x-ratelimit-limit': '18000',
        'x-ratelimit-remaining': '17997',
        'x-ratelimit-reset': '3165',
        'content-length': '852',
        connection: 'Close' },
     config: 
      { transformRequest: [Object],
        transformResponse: [Object],
        headers: [Object],
        timeout: 0,
        xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN',
        xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN',
        maxContentLength: -1,
        validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus],
        method: 'get',
        url: 'https://horizon-testnet.stellar.org/friendbot?addr=GAKM5SS6VE3WM73AEOB6SH3YZX4RDV33ULQIZB437Y4FMLKH4PLXHS3J&c=0.3651907871814051',
        withCredentials: undefined,
        data: undefined },
     request: 
      ClientRequest {
        domain: null,
        _events: [Object],
        _eventsCount: 2,
        _maxListeners: undefined,
        output: [],
        outputEncodings: [],
        outputCallbacks: [],
        outputSize: 0,
        writable: true,
        _last: true,
        upgrading: false,
        chunkedEncoding: false,
        shouldKeepAlive: false,
        useChunkedEncodingByDefault: false,
        sendDate: false,
        _removedConnection: false,
        _removedContLen: false,
        _removedTE: false,
        _contentLength: 0,
        _hasBody: true,
        _trailer: '',
        finished: true,
        _headerSent: true,
        socket: [Object],
        connection: [Object],
        _header: 'GET /friendbot?addr=GAKM5SS6VE3WM73AEOB6SH3YZX4RDV33ULQIZB437Y4FMLKH4PLXHS3J&c=0.3651907871814051 HTTP/1.1\r\nAccept: application/json, text/plain, */*\r\nUser-Agent: axios/0.12.0\r\nHost: horizon-testnet.stellar.org\r\nConnection: close\r\n\r\n',
        _onPendingData: [Function: noopPendingOutput],
        agent: [Object],
        socketPath: undefined,
        timeout: undefined,
        method: 'GET',
        path: '/friendbot?addr=GAKM5SS6VE3WM73AEOB6SH3YZX4RDV33ULQIZB437Y4FMLKH4PLXHS3J&c=0.3651907871814051',
        _ended: true,
        res: [Object],
        aborted: undefined,
        timeoutCb: null,
        upgradeOrConnect: false,
        parser: null,
        maxHeadersCount: null,
        [Symbol(outHeadersKey)]: [Object] },
     data: 
      { type: 'https://stellar.org/horizon-errors/transaction_failed',
        title: 'Transaction Failed',
        status: 400,
        detail: 'The transaction failed when submitted to the stellar network. The `extras.result_codes` field on this response contains further details.  Descriptions of each code can be found at: https://www.stellar.org/developers/learn/concepts/list-of-operations.html',
        instance: 'horizon-testnet-002/ZAQo8xQ6e1-8019487',
        extras: [Object] } } }

But that’s a different issue so I’ll open a separate ticket unless you’ve got some insights as to why that’s happening for me.

[bartekn]

What about:

Server
    .friendbot(publicKey)
    .call()
    .then(() => resolve(pair.secret()))
    .catch((err) => reject(err));

friendbot returns FriendbotBuilder object that extends CallBuilder.