[SOLVED] Create User Target unexpectedly fails.

New to AppWrite and first post here on Discord. Hello all.😀

I am having some issues understanding why my call to users.createTarget() fails in a function. (https://appwrite.io/docs/references/cloud/server-nodejs/users#createTarget).

I have the following code excerpt that works fine when being called from a node server app communicating with a self-hosted appwrite:

  \\
  \\ imports, client setup, other code
  \\
    try {
    const result = await users.createTarget(
      deviceID,   // userId - we use the device identifier as the user token
      targetID,   // targetId - //Choose a custom ID or generate a random ID with ID.unique()
      'push',     // providerType
      apnsToken   // identifier - the apns token
      //'',       // providerId (optional) - will use the first push provider if not explictly set
      //''        // name (optional)
    )
    return res.json({
      "success" : "token associated with device"
    })
  } catch(targetError) {
      error(`failed to create target ${targetError}`)
      return res.json({ "error": `unable to associate token` }, 400)
  }

However, when I run this in a cloud hosted function, I get the error logged in the in the console: failed to create target TypeError: users.createTarget is not a function.

I am using the appwrite.io (cloud) to host the function.

The documentation online seems to suggest that this should be available in the cloud node-appwrite sdk?? Any suggestions?

What version of the sdk are you using?

Aaah .. it may be that simple!! I used the starter template on both self-hosted server and cloud - but now realise that the starter template on the cloud uses an earlier version of node-appwrite.

haha, no worries. make sure to clear npm cache and pull the latest version. that should fix the issue.

thank you very much. will do!

please mark you issue as [SOLVED] once its resolved. If you encounter any other errors, feel free to create another thread or continue in this one.

Happy Appwriting :appwritecheers:.

[SOLVED]

hey 👋, could you please add [SOLVED] as the prefix to the post title so that its pretty visible outside the thread too 😅. thnx.

[solved] Create User Target unexpectedly fails.

[SOLVED] Create User Target unexpectedly fails.

Cheers. NOOB.