Having trouble setting up digital products (+ small mistake in docs)

[jmbluethner]

Hello everyone! ☺️

After having checked out Vendure over a year ago for the first time, it's finally time to develop the first client shop using Vendure 🎉

Said Client is exclusively selling digital products, so I went straight to the docs.
I downloaded the example plugin as described, and added it to src/plugins.

After adding the plugin to my src/vendure-config.ts I tried to restart Vendure - But without success.
I was getting the following error:

[server] npm run dev:server exited with code 1
[worker] /home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:859
[worker]     return new TSError(diagnosticText, diagnosticCodes, diagnostics);
[worker]            ^
[worker] TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
[worker] src/vendure-config.ts(13,39): error TS2307: Cannot find module './plugins/digital-products/digital-products-plugin' or its corresponding type declarations.

However, this was pretty easy to solve.

The docs say to create a file called digital-products-plugin.ts. However, in the provided GitHub Repository, the file is called digital-products.plugin.ts.

That's why Vendure couldn't find the file when trying to import it in src/vendure-config.ts.
So I just renamed the file and that did the trick.

HOWEVER now I'm facing another issue ...

Upon starting Vendure via npm run dev, I receive the following error:

[worker] SqliteError: no such column: ShippingMethod.customFieldsIsdigital
[worker]     at Database.prepare (/home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/better-sqlite3/lib/methods/wrappers.js:5:21)
[worker]     at BetterSqlite3QueryRunner.getStmt (/home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/typeorm/src/driver/better-sqlite3/BetterSqlite3QueryRunner.ts:44:43)
[worker]     at async BetterSqlite3QueryRunner.query (/home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/typeorm/src/driver/better-sqlite3/BetterSqlite3QueryRunner.ts:89:22)
[worker]     at async SelectQueryBuilder.loadRawResults (/home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/src/query-builder/SelectQueryBuilder.ts:3805:25)
[worker]     at async SelectQueryBuilder.executeEntitiesAndRawResults (/home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/src/query-builder/SelectQueryBuilder.ts:3551:26)
[worker]     at async SelectQueryBuilder.getRawAndEntities (/home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/src/query-builder/SelectQueryBuilder.ts:1670:29)
[worker]     at async SelectQueryBuilder.getMany (/home/user/midiload-test/node_modules/src/query-builder/SelectQueryBuilder.ts:1760:25) {
[worker]   code: 'SQLITE_ERROR'
[worker] }

After that, there's also a lot of SQL Syntax for creating tables and such.

So, I get that the problem is that my DB doesn't know the fields we try to access within the plugin.
However, I can't find anything regarding that topic in the docs.

The question is: What else do I have to do to make this work? What did I miss?
I'm sorry if I was just too blind to see it ...

Thanks in advance everyone!

[michaelbromley]

Hi,

Thanks for the report. I'll get that typo fixed, and the second error is because you need to create a migration after defining the custom field. I'll also add a note on that.

It is covered in-depth in the dedicated Custom Fields docs