Error "The query failed 1 validation check" is not helpful about fauna-js

[macmv]

The error includes a queryInfo.summary field, which will include the more descriptive error (like what you would get on the dashboard). You can log this with a try catch:

try {
  client.query(...);
} catch (e) {
  console.error(e.queryInfo.summary);
}

The error message you're seeing is meant to be a one-line response, telling you the type of error that came back. So parse errors and typecheck errors just say "The query failed N validation checks," whereas something like an abort will fail with "The query aborted."

The summary is the error message you're looking for. I don't know how JS handles errors in general, and it looks like its a bit of a pain to log more fields on the actual error itself. We might be able to improve this slightly by making the message in the Error the summary, but I think that would conflict with existing behavior, and it would make the difference between the error message and summary less clear.

[mrispoli24]

I'm having the same issue on my end, works in the shell but the same error from the js driver.

[mrispoli24]

I figured it out in my case, if you look at the documentation on site the example looks like this:

Which might lead you to build a function that looks something like this in your code:

const collection_query = (collectionName: string) => fql`Collection.create({ name: "${collectionName}" })`;

However this throws the non-descript error above. You can fix this by removing the quotes around the name attribute and all works fine.

const collection_query = (collectionName: string) => fql`Collection.create({ name: ${collectionName} })`;

Hope this helps someone else...

[BrunoQuaresma]

@macmv thx for letting me know about the queryInfo.summary.