Error: Cannot find module 'form-data'

[namnetes]

Hello,

Below the error when starting the process : npm start

> [email protected] start /u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke                              
> node server.js                                                                                                                    
                                                                                                                                    
iconv-lite warning: javascript files use encoding different from utf-8. See https://github.com/ashtuchkin/iconv-lite/wiki/Javascript
-source-file-encodings for more info.                                                                                               
internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:969                                                                                                  
  throw err;                                                                                                                        
  ^                                                                                                                                 
                                                                                                                                    
Error: Cannot find module 'form-data'                                                                                               
Require stack:                                                                                                                      
- /u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/request/request.js                             
- /u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/request/index.js                               
- /u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/ibm-cics-api/index.js                          
- /u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/server.js                                                   
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:966:15)                                                     
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:842:27)                                                                
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1026:19)                                                                      
    at require (internal/modules/cjs/helpers.js:72:18)                                                                              
    at Object.<anonymous> (/u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/request/request.js:15:
16)                                                                                                                                 
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1138:30)                                                                     
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1158:10) 
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1158:10)                                           
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:986:32)                                                              
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:879:14)                                                    
    at Module.require (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1026:19) {                                                        
  code: 'MODULE_NOT_FOUND',                                                                                             
  requireStack: Y                                                                                                       
    '/u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/request/request.js',            
    '/u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/request/index.js',              
    '/u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/ibm-cics-api/index.js',         
    '/u/MYUSER/nodejs/cics/cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/server.js'                                   
  ¨                                                                                                                     
}                                                                                                                       
npm ERR] code ELIFECYCLE                                                                                                
npm ERR] errno 1                                                                                                        
npm ERR] [email protected] start: `node server.js`                                                               
npm ERR] Exit status 1                                                                                                  
npm ERR]                                                                                                                
npm ERR] Failed at the [email protected] start script.                                                           
npm ERR] This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.                      
                                                                                                                        
npm ERR] A complete log of this run can be found in:                                                                    
npm ERR]     /u/MYUSER/.npm/_logs/2020-11-19T11_02_58_396Z-debug.log                                                   

We are using version 12.18.0 of node.js with CICS 5.5 on z/OS V2R3

Can anyone help me ?
Thanks in advance.
Thank you

[markcocker]

Can you describe the sequence of events ahead of running npm start, and in particular if you had any errors when running npm install to resolve dependencies.

[namnetes]

Hello,

Sorry for this late response.

I cloned the repository on my Windows 10 PC then I launched followed as described the procedure and launched the npm install always on Windows without any error message.

Then, from IDz I transferred the entire project to USS.

Here is what I find in the directories :

../cics-nodejs-invoke/projects/cics-nodejs-invoke/node_modules/form-data/lib>
browser.js
form_data.js
populate.js

In the error message it is the 'form-data' module that is sought.

But in the folder I found form_data.js and renaming the file to form-data.js doesn't change anything.

Best regards

[namnetes]

Hello,

What's new with my problem ?

Initially I launched the npm install from my Windows workstation in order to recover all the dependencies... since the Z is not connected to the Internet.

In doing so, all the package.json files contained references to the disk locations of my Windows machine. So I launched a FIND AND REPALCE script in order to adjust these files with the project locations under USS.

But it still fails and I don't know why.

Does somebody have an idea ?