Lucid vesting demo

Question

I'm running into the follow Lucid error from Week4 of Plutus pioneer program:

/workspace/code/Week04/lecture# deno run -A lucid-vesting.ts
error: Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Cannot convert undefined to a BigInt
      keyDeposit: BigInt(result.key_deposit),
                  ^
    at BigInt (<anonymous>)
    at Blockfrost.getProtocolParameters (https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/src/provider/blockfrost.ts:39:19)
    at async Function.new (https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/src/lucid/lucid.ts:56:34)
    at async file:///workspace/code/Week04/lecture/lucid-vesting.ts:19:15

I tried updating the import to use the latest Lucid version, but it didn't help:

from "https://deno.land/x/[email protected]/mod.ts"

I'm not sure what these type errors mean

Answer 1

The result.key_deposit is undefined, which means it is not set to a value (and not null either). BigInt() expects you to provide a valid integer number either as a number or a string. Therefore BigInt() throws an error when you provide undefined instead.

Check what happens in your code before this line to figure out why result.key_deposit doesn't contain a number.

See BigInt coercion for more info on BigInt errors.

One likely pitfall I can see is that you might not have replaced the Blockfrost API key:

// set blockfrost endpoint
const lucid = await Lucid.new(
  new Blockfrost(
    "https://cardano-preprod.blockfrost.io/api/v0",
    "insert you own api key here" // <-- REPLACE THIS WITH A REAL API KEY
  ),
  "Preprod"
);