[Bug]: TypeError: api_1.default is not a constructor in Nestjs

[mustafakendiguzel]

Software Version

7.3.0

Language Version

21.4.0

Operating System

Windows

What happened?

1. Imported easypost-node library in nestjs
2. Attempt to create new EasyPostClient via

   import EasyPost from '@easypost/api';
   export class ShippingMailingService {
   private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPost
   constructor() { 
   this.easyPostClient = new EasyPost('apiKey')
   }
   }

3. Upon building, error is thrown that . TypeError: api_1.default is not a constructor
4. Tsconfig.json

   {
   "compilerOptions": {
   "module": "commonjs",
   "declaration": false,
   "removeComments": true,
   "noLib": false,
   "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
   "experimentalDecorators": true,
   "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
   "resolveJsonModule": true,
   "target": "es2017",
   "sourceMap": true,
   "allowJs": true,
   "outDir": "./dist",
   "baseUrl": "./",
   "lib": ["ES7", "ES2021", "DOM"],
   "incremental": true,
   "skipLibCheck": true,
   "strictNullChecks": false,
   "noImplicitAny": false,
   "strictBindCallApply": false,
   "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": false,
   "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": false,
   }
   }

What was expected?

To be able to build the app while using EasyPostClient

Sample Code

import EasyPost from '@easypost/api';

export class ShippingMailingService {
  private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPost
  constructor() { 
    this.easyPostClient = new EasyPost('apiKey')
  }
}

Relevant logs

No response

[nwithan8]

Hello there, thanks for writing in!

I believe there's an issue with your provided code snippet, you should be trying to construct an EasyPostClient object, not an EasyPost object

import EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api'; 

export class ShippingMailingService { 
  private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPostClient constructor() { this.easyPostClient = new EasyPostClient('apiKey') } }

[mustafakendiguzel]

Hello there, thanks for writing in!

I believe there's an issue with your provided code snippet, you should be trying to construct an EasyPostClient object, not an EasyPost object

import EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api'; 

export class ShippingMailingService { 
  private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPostClient constructor() { this.easyPostClient = new EasyPostClient('apiKey') } }

Thanks for the answer @nwithan8. I get the same error that didn't solve this problem.

[heindrik]

has anyone found a workaround for this yet?

[AshuImmencer05]

Even i tried these solutions but still i am getting the same error

[chr0m1ng]

@AshuImmencer05 @heindrik @mustafakendiguzel Hey folks, I've found a workaround, import under dist/easypost:

import EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api/dist/easypost'

const client = new EasyPostClient(api_key)

[AshuImmencer05]

@chr0m1ng Thank you so much ,your solution was really helpful it worked out pretty well..

[AshuImmencer05]

@heindrik @chr0m1ng @nwithan8 @Justintime50 @mustafakendiguzel Guys I just wanted to ask a simple question, as i create shipment using api from the backend response object i get from easypost is very large so basically which has properties that are not required so how to get an ideal response which can help reduce the response time and prevent us from security breaks and other stuff etc?

[nwithan8]

@heindrik @chr0m1ng @nwithan8 @Justintime50 @mustafakendiguzel Guys I just wanted to ask a simple question, as i create shipment using api from the backend response object i get from easypost is very large so basically which has properties that are not required so how to get an ideal response which can help reduce the response time and prevent us from security breaks and other stuff etc?

The API will always return the complete record for any given object (e.g. a Shipment), so there is no way to necessarily reduce the response payload size. You can reduce your request payloads by sending only the ID of existing server-side records (e.g. the ID of an existing Shipment), as that is all the server requires to locate and interact with an existing record.

This question is unrelated to the original issue. To avoid pinging the other subscribers to this thread, if you have any additional questions, please open a separate ticket or reach out to our support team at support@easypost.com.