Visual Recognition doesn't recognize IAM_APIKEY and URL from credentials.env provided by the service.

[kyokonishito]

Overview Visual Recognition doesn't recognize IAM_APIKEY and URL from credentials.env provided by the service. When I put the credentials.env provided by the visual recognition service to the working directory, the api returns 'Error: Missing required parameters: apikey'.

Expected behavior The apikey is loaded from credentials.env.

Actual behavior the api returns 'Error: Missing required parameters: apikey'.

How to reproduce

1. Download credentials.env to the working directory of #2 code from Visual Recognition service.
2. Run following code with node.js

var VisualRecognitionV3 = require('ibm-watson/visual-recognition/v3'); 
var visualRecognition = new VisualRecognitionV3({ 
  version: '2018-05-01'
});

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SDK Version v5.2.0

Additional information: The SDK only reads the variables started from WATSON_VISIONCOMBINED. However the values of credentials.env are started from VISUALRECOGNITION. SDK v4 reads both values.

[salimbene]

You need to pass it to the constructor:

var visualRecognition = new VisualRecognitionV3({ 
  version: '2018-05-01',
  apikey: 'YOU_IAM_API_KEY_VARIABLE'
});

[kyokonishito]

My issue is the sdk does not read the api key from the credentials.env provided by the service explained as README.md, not how to pass the APIKEY.

[germanattanasio]

This is a known issue and we are working on the fix.

The SDK will recognize VISUAL_RECOGNITION_ which is the one that in the credentials file.

In the meantime can you use the snippet from @msalimbe1?

const visualRecognition = new VisualRecognitionV3({ 
 version: '2018-05-01',
 apikey: process.env.VISUAL_RECOGNITION_IAM_APIKEY
});

[germanattanasio]

Related to https://github.com/watson-developer-cloud/node-sdk/issues/994

[kyokonishito]

@germanattanasio Thank you! I will pass the api key as your code until getting the fix.

[tanushreepaul04]

The same issue is there with Watson Assistant. Not reading from ibm-credential.env file. If IAM credential is given in a ibm-credential.env file, AsistantV2 can not read it from that ".env" Always throwing Error: Missing required parameters: apikey. It only works if the credentials are passed in constructor directly. Used a work around: Using a json file say "watson-config.json" to store credential, then reading it using a small node module "read-search-json". (its my own contribution https://www.npmjs.com/package/read-search-json) A node module to read and search out JSON data from an input JSON file('*.json'). Inputs are the JSON file path and a Search Path constructed as a string array of Keys. Sample "watson-config.json" :

{
    "watson-assistant-config": {
        "apikey": "the-api-key",
        "url": "the-url"
    }
}

Sample Call : (assuming the "watson-config.json" in in the same folder from where "node" is running

const AssistantV2 = require('ibm-watson/assistant/v2');
const readjson = require('read-search-json');
readjson.readJSON("./watson-config.json", ["watson-assistant-config"], function (data, err) {
        if (data) {
              console.log(data);
            var assistant = new AssistantV2(data);
            // start Watson Assistant Session
        }
        if (err)
            console.log(err);
    });

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[germanattanasio]

@tanushreepaul04 Can you please show us the keys in the ibm-credentials.env file? I think it's related to the keys not being the ones that the SDK is looking for

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