Uploading package to app catalog

[jcangelosi]

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Category

[ ] Enhancement

[ ] Bug

[X] Question

Version

Please specify what version of the library you are using: [ 3.0.8 ]

Question

I was trying to upload a solution in node with the pnp library and I haven't been able to make it work at all. Im not sure what my error may be. I'm using fs to retrieve the package from my computer, when I retrieve it as utf8 the app is uploaded to the site but I get the following message: "Invalid SharePoint App package. Error: File contains corrupted data" in the app catalog after checking it. If I try to read my file as a buffer the page just returns a 500 internal server error and the app is not uploaded.

Steps to Reproduce

const content = fs.readFileSync("myapp.sppkg", "utf8");
web.getAppCatalog().add("myapp.sppkg", content).then((result) => {
    console.log(result);
});

Thanks!

[patrick-rodgers]

If you upload the same package file through the UI do you get an invalid package error?

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[jcangelosi]

No, uploading the package through the UI works fine.

[koltyakov]

Hey @jcangelosi,

What fetchClientFactory do you use? Can it be that it was sp-pnp-node?

After some research, I found an issue in sp-pnp-node and fixed it in ver. 2.1.0.

This:

sp.setup({
  sp: {
    fetchClientFactory: () => new PnpNode({
      siteUrl: context.siteUrl,
      authOptions: context.authOptions
    })
  }
});

const web = new Web(context.siteUrl);
const content = fs.readFileSync(fileLocation).buffer;

return web
  .getAppCatalog()
  .add(fileName, content)
  .catch(error => {
    console.log(error.data.responseBody);
  });

works for me now, but failed before with the same error messages as yours.

UPD: Oh, and btw I only tested with new @pnp scoped library. And highly encourage to move to a new ver of PnPjs.

[jcangelosi]

I think that was the problem, thanks for the fix!