error while installing jspm packages

[sona-kumari]

I am getting the below error, for installing jspm packages. i hhave verified the credentials its fine. Please let me know what could be the issue. this is the error in our CI/CD pipeline. which was working previously. but has been failing since friday(5th Feb 2021).

**warn Error on getPackageConfig for github:systemjs/plugin-text
TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined
at checkRateLimit (D:\a\1\s\HttpApi\node_modules\jspm-github\github.js:276:22)
at D:\a\1\s\HttpApi\node_modules\jspm-github\github.js:456:46
at tryCatch (D:\a\1\s\HttpApi\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:525:12)
at invokeCallback (D:\a\1\s\HttpApi\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:538:13)
at publish (D:\a\1\s\HttpApi\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:508:7)
at flush (D:\a\1\s\HttpApi\node_modules\rsvp\dist\rsvp.js:2415:5)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:176:11)

warn Error getting package config for github:systemjs/plugin-text.
Downloading npm:vinyl-sourcemaps-apply@0.2.1
Looking up npm:source-map
Downloading npm:archy@1.0.0**

[gvmobile]

We found the issue in this line of code:

github/github.js

Line 433 in 748308a

if (res.headers.status.match(/^401/))

It seems like Github API isn't sending the "status" anymore in the response header.

[sona-kumari]

so what do you suggest the resolution for this should be. below is my authentication code. i have verified my authkey. it is perfectly valid.

call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.remote https://github.jspm.io
call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.maxRepoSize 0
call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.auth %githubAuthKey%
call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.handler jspm-github

[sudha50]

we faced the same issue in our Jenkins environment
warn Error on getPackageConfig for github:systemjs/plugin-css
TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined
at checkRateLimit (/home/ec2-user/workspace/Build/UI/online@2/node_modules/jspm-github/github.js:276:21)
warn Error on download for github:d-oliveros/ngSmoothScroll
TypeError: Cannot read property 'match' of undefined
at checkRateLimit (/home/ec2-user/workspace/Build/UI/online@2/node_modules/jspm-github/github.js:276:21)

 But somehow,  we're able to build in our laptops.
 Currently, we're blocked on this issue.

[khanharis87]

same I dropped the issue on stackoverflow too: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/66117687/jspm-not-able-to-download-github-packages-behind-the-proxy

[jonatastrife]

so what do you suggest the resolution for this should be. below is my authentication code. i have verified my authkey. it is perfectly valid.

call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.remote https://github.jspm.io call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.maxRepoSize 0 call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.auth %githubAuthKey% call %node% %jspm% config registries.github.handler jspm-github

We need to know if the Github API changed somehow and stopped sending the status in the response header like it was supposed to do according to their documentation.

So if they changed that, we need do make an adjustment in the jspm to don't expect that while checking if the rate limit was reached.
If it's a bug in github API, we need to try to find out why it happened with Github support.

[kristofer84]

Sharing my really temporary solution to get my Docker containers working again:

• Take a copy of https://github.com/jspm/github/blob/8d701b62e1dc67b9d2e85bf9873bef5384cdf37a/github.js.
• Fix the checkRateLimit-method in any way you like (I did it by adding a return;).
• After your npm install/pnpm install, replace the github.js-file before running jspm install by copying it in your Dockerfile.

[thulin82]

@jonatastrife That's major. My though was the entire time that it was something that GitHub just removed, but if it's in the documentation, then I guess it's a bug?

Have anyone been in contact with GitHub (support)?

[yafanasiev]

Also encountered this issue, made a fix similar to @kristofer84 :

function checkRateLimit(status, headers) {
  if (status === 401)
    throw 'Unauthorized response for GitHub API.\n' +
      'Use %jspm registry config github% to reconfigure the credentials, or update them in your ~/.netrc file.';
  if (status === 406)
    throw 'Unauthorized response for GitHub API.\n' +
...

...
    )).then(function(res) {
      var rateLimitResponse = checkRateLimit.call(this, res.statusCode, res.headers);
...

...and copy over modified file to node_modules: cp "./tools/BuildScripts/github.js" "./node_modules/jspm-github"

[Spaceman1861]

I know this is a super lame workaround but It helped me fixed my build pipeline...

1. Rip this folder from your node_modules "jspm-github" and make a copy somewhere in your base directory.
2. Modify checkRateLimit method to this.

  //if (headers.status.match(/^401/))
  //  throw 'Unauthorized response for GitHub API.\n' +
  //    'Use %jspm registry config github% to reconfigure the credentials, or update them in your ~/.netrc file.';
  //if (headers.status.match(/^406/))
  //  throw 'Unauthorized response for GitHub API.\n' +
  //    'If using an access token ensure it has public_repo access.\n' +
  //    'Use %jspm registry config github% to configure the credentials, or add them to your ~/.netrc file.';

  if (headers['x-ratelimit-remaining'] != '0')
    return;

  var remaining = (headers['x-ratelimit-reset'] * 1000 - new Date(headers.date).getTime()) / 60000;

  if (this.auth)
    return Promise.reject('\nGitHub rate limit reached, with authentication enabled.' +
        '\nThe rate limit will reset in `' + Math.round(remaining) + ' minutes`.');

  var err = new Error('GitHub rate limit reached.');
  err.config = true;
  err.hideStack = true;

  return Promise.reject(err);
}

3. Remove the existing module and add the new custom module.
4. npm install --save ./jspm-github

Hope that helps anyone stuck.

[Spaceman1861]

Looks like 2 people got to it before me while I was writing my post ><

[thulin82]

https://github.community/t/missing-status-in-response-header/160558

[thulin82]

Our solution to the problem (similar to others), create a local copy of github.js, with the header.status.match-parts behind an if-block. Commit that file to the repo.

In the build chain (azure devops), after "npm install", create a new step which copies the above mentioned github.js into the place of the one that was created during "npm install".

[DatumPlatformInteractive]

thank you @yafanasiev your fix worked for me.

[yafanasiev]

Considering Github may not treat this as a bug, and it's more reliable to use status code from response object anyway, should we just switch to that? I can make a PR for this.

[jonatastrife]

Sharing my really temporary solution to get my Docker containers working again:

• Take a copy of https://github.com/jspm/github/blob/8d701b62e1dc67b9d2e85bf9873bef5384cdf37a/github.js.
• Fix the checkRateLimit-method in any way you like (I did it by adding a return;).
• After your npm install/pnpm install, replace the github.js-file before running jspm install by copying it in your Dockerfile.

In my org we are doing basically the same thing, we made our own modification to the file and are downloading it after the first npm install in azure devops and replacing it in jspm-github\github.js , we finally revived our CI pipeline with this. So now that we have more time to think, did anyone try to contact Github Support?