Hi all,
I'm trying to install a custom module via the HTTP Admin API but with no success as I keep getting:
{
"code": "MODULE_NOT_FOUND",
"message": "Cannot find module '[ABSOLUTE PATH PATH TO MY MODULE DIR]'"
}
On node-red logs shows:
[0] 14 Jan 20:27:49 - [info] Installing module: [ABSOLUTE PATH PATH TO MY MODULE DIR], version: latest
[0] 14 Jan 20:27:49 - [debug] npm.cmd install --no-audit --no-update-notifier --save --save-prefix="~" --production [ABSOLUTE PATH PATH TO MY MODULE DIR]
[0] 14 Jan 20:27:51 - [debug] [out] + teste@0.0.1
[0] 14 Jan 20:27:51 - [debug] [out] updated 1 package in 0.12s
[0] 14 Jan 20:27:51 - [debug] rc=0
[0] 14 Jan 20:27:51 - [info] Installed module: [ABSOLUTE PATH PATH TO MY MODULE DIR]
I'm executing:
POST http://{{host}}/red/nodes
content-type: application/json
Accept: application/json
{
"module":"[ABSOLUTE PATH PATH TO MY MODULE DIR]"
}
If I run the npm install [ABSOLUTE PATH PATH TO MY MODULE DIR] it works.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Are you using windows? The fact it says npm.cmd makes me thing you are.
Can you share the actual path you are using? I wonder if there's a windows path separator issue here where we are failing to detect the path properly.
The log output says it has installed the module. Can you have a look in .node-red/node_modules to see if the module has been installed?
Hi Nick, thanks for the quick reply.
Yes I'm running on Windows. I'm also running node-red in "embedded mode".
The HTTP request is:
POST http://{{host}}/red/nodes
content-type: application/json
Accept: application/json
{
"module":"C:\\@Work\\00_projects\\pxp\\src\\temp\\.gen\\teste"
}
node-red logs:
[0] 15 Jan 08:34:08 - [info] Installing module: C:\@Work\00_projects\pxp\src\temp\.gen\teste, version: latest[0] 15 Jan 08:34:08 - [debug] npm.cmd install --no-audit --no-update-notifier --save --save-prefix="~" --production C:\@Work\00_projects\pxp\src\temp\.gen\teste
[0] 15 Jan 08:34:10 - [debug] [out] + teste@0.0.1
[0] 15 Jan 08:34:10 - [debug] [out] added 2 packages from 2 contributors in 0.09s
[0] 15 Jan 08:34:10 - [debug] rc=0
[0] 15 Jan 08:34:10 - [info] Installed module: C:\@Work\00_projects\pxp\src\temp\.gen\teste
And the .node-red/node_modules:
Thanks for the help.
Hi @brunoshine
I haven't been able to reproduce locally, but I suspect it may be an issue with our path detection on Windows.
I haven't had a chance to dust off my Windows VM to test that theory.
Please can you raise an issue so we don't forget about it.
Nick
Hi @knolleary,
i've tried on a Mac and got the same error:
POST http://{{host}}/red/nodes
content-type: application/json
Accept: application/json
{
"module":"/Users/bfigueir/@work/00_projects/pxp/src/temp/.gen/teste"
}
23 Jan 00:37:41 - [info] Installed module: teste
[0] 23 Jan 00:38:57 - [info] Installing module: teste, version: latest
[0] 23 Jan 00:38:57 - [trace] npm["install","--no-audit","--no-update-notifier","--save","--save-prefix=\"~\"","--production","/Users/bfigueir/@work/00_projects/pxp/src/temp/.gen/teste"]
[0] 23 Jan 00:38:57 - [debug] npm install --no-audit --no-update-notifier --save --save-prefix="~" --production /Users/bfigueir/@work/00_projects/pxp/src/temp/.gen/teste
[0] 23 Jan 00:38:57 - [debug] [out] + teste@1.0.0
[0] 23 Jan 00:38:57 - [debug] [out] updated 1 package in 0.107s
[0] 23 Jan 00:38:58 - [debug] rc=0
[0] 23 Jan 00:38:58 - [info] Installed module: teste
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
X-Powered-By: Express
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
Content-Length: 66
ETag: W/"42-pdDQMPIpR0JgSB/UW4tjdbiDs18"
Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 00:38:58 GMT
Connection: close
{
"code": "MODULE_NOT_FOUND",
"message": "Cannot find module 'teste'"
}
on that folder i've got a package.json file:
{
"name": "teste",
"version": "1.0.0",
"description": "",
"node-red":{
"nodes":{
"teste":"teste.js"
}
}
}
Thanks!
Hi @brunoshine
I still can't reproduce this.
What versions of npm and node.js are you using?
After the install, what does its entry in the dependencies section of ~/.node-red/package.json look like?
Hi @knolleary
npm: 6.9.0
node: v10.16.0
{
"name": "node-red-project",
"description": "A Node-RED Project",
"version": "0.0.1",
"private": true,
"dependencies": {
"teste": "file:../../temp/.gen/teste"
}
}
The ~/.node-red/node_modules contains the teste package and its files:
If I restart the app, the module isn't loaded and does not show on the palette.
Thanks.
If I copy the teste folder to the ~/.nodered/nodes folder, and restart the app, the node gets loaded and starts showing on the palette.
Is there any way to tell node-red to reload the nodes palette without the need to restart the app?
thanks.
@brunoshine if a module is installed in ~/.node-red/node_modules then Node-RED should be loading it on startup. The fact it isn't is strange and also explains why you get the error - it installs the module then fails to find where it has been installed. There must be something else about your setup to explain this.
How are you running Node-RED? Is this a 'normal' install or are you doing something non-default with the configuration?
Hi @knolleary,
so I managed it to start working. I'm running node-red in a embeded mode and made some configurations changes, one being the userDir setting where I was pointing to a relative path ./src/node-red/.nodered/ loaded from environment variable. After some digging around the node-red code (debugging) I saw that on the filesystem.js node-red was trying to require the package it was not founding it. I then changed the userDir to a absolutePath and now its working.
Thanks for the guidance and all the help. I'll try to dig up a bit more on why the relative path is not working.
Once again thanks 
I am getting the same response in Windows only, I also the installed node is being added as dependency in node_red_config/package.json and the symlink is been created in node_red_config/node_modules. The node is only available in HTTP GET /nodes after I have restarted the server. Is there any workaround to this issue?
Version
node -> v10.16.0
npm -> 6.9.0
node-red -> 0.20.8
