Hyperledger Fabric: ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/fabric-chaincode-api (v 1.4.5)

Question

I wrote my chaincode using Node.js API, and now I'm trying to instantiate.

image: hyperledger/fabric-peer:1.4.5

My package.json has the follow source:

{
    "name": "democontract",
    "version": "1.0.0",
    "description": "Document Contract",
    "main": "index.js",
    "engines": {
        "node": ">=8.4.0",
        "npm": ">=5.3.0"
    },
    "scripts": {
        "lint": "eslint .",
        "pretest": "npm run lint",
        "start": "fabric-chaincode-node start",
        "mocha": "mocha test --recursive"
    },
    "engine-strict": true,
    "license": "Apache-2.0",
    "private": true,
    "dependencies": {
        "mkdirp": ">=0.5.5",
        "openpgp": "^4.10.0",
        "fabric-chaincode-api": "^1.4.0",
        "fabric-shim": "^1.4.0"
    },
    "devDependencies": {
        "chai": "^4.1.2",
        "chai-as-promised": "^7.1.1",
        "eslint": "^4.19.1",
        "mocha": "^5.2.0",
        "nyc": "^12.0.2",
        "sinon": "^6.0.0",
        "sinon-chai": "^3.2.0"
    }
}

But when I call in CLI container to instantiate the chaincode (democontract):

peer chaincode instantiate -C $CHANNELNAME -n $CHCODENAME -v $CHCODEVERSION -o $ORDERERNAME \
    -c '{"Args":["ContractDocument:instantiate"]}' \
    -P "OR('OrdererMSP.admin','Org1MSP.admin','Org1MSP.peer','Org1MSP.member')" \
    --tls --cafile $ORDERER_TLSCACERT --tlsRootCertFiles $CORE_PEER_TLS_ROOTCERT_FILE

I'm receing the follow ERROR at PEER container, and chaincode failed to instantiate.

I don't know how to get out of this error condition. Please, may you help me?

[endorser] SimulateProposal -> ERRO 050 [devchannel][bef25398] failed to invoke chaincode name:"lscc" , error: Failed to generate platform-specific docker build: 
Error returned from build: 1 "npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Legacy versions of mkdirp are no longer supported. 
Please update to mkdirp 1.x. (Note that the API surface has changed to use Promises in 1.x.)
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: CircularJSON is in maintenance only, flatted is its successor.
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: https://github.com/lydell/resolve-url#deprecated
npm WARN deprecated [email protected]: Please see https://github.com/lydell/urix#deprecated
npm ERR! code E404
**npm ERR! 404 Not Found - GET https://registry.npmjs.org/fabric-chaincode-api - Not found**
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404  'fabric-chaincode-api@^1.4.0' is not in the npm registry.
npm ERR! 404 You should bug the author to publish it (or use the name yourself!)
npm ERR! 404 It was specified as a dependency of 'output'
npm ERR! 404 
npm ERR! 404 Note that you can also install from a
npm ERR! 404 tarball, folder, http url, or git url.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /root/.npm/_logs/2020-05-18T19_31_20_461Z-debug.log
"
error starting container
error starting container

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Regards, Magno A. Cavalcante

Answer 1

You might be using incompatible version of node js. Please check the supported versions of node js with hyperledger fabric versions.

Answer 2

The problem is inside package.json.

The code snippet was wrong:

"dependencies": {
    "mkdirp": ">=0.5.5",
    "openpgp": "^4.10.0",
    "fabric-chaincode-api": "^1.4.0",
    "fabric-shim": "^1.4.0"
},

The correct code snippet is:

"dependencies": {
    "mkdirp": ">=0.5.5",
    "openpgp": "^4.10.0",
    "fabric-contract-api": "^1.4.3",
    "fabric-shim": "^1.4.3"
},

Changed from fabric-chaincode-api to fabric-contract-api.

I wrote my package.json with reference to the packages described in the URL https://hyperledger.github.io/fabric-chaincode-node/master/api/tutorial-using-contractinterface.html .

For future references, see bellow URL's:

• https://jira.hyperledger.org/browse/FABCN-405
• https://github.com/hyperledger/fabric-chaincode-node/pull/150