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Please specify your Google Application Credential

Error message

Please specify your Google Application Credential

What it means

buildGoogleCredentials() requires at least one of googleApplicationCredentialFilePath (path to a service-account JSON file) or googleApplicationCredential (the JSON content as a string) when a credential is attached (Object.keys(credentialData).length !== 0). If both are empty the function throws. Note: the immediately following 'More than one component' check on line 16 uses the SAME condition as line 14 and is therefore dead code — it can never fire, and the intended 'provided both' case is not actually guarded.

Source

Thrown at packages/components/src/google-utils.ts:15

import { getCredentialData, getCredentialParam, type ICommonObject, type INodeData } from '.'
import type { ChatVertexAIInput, VertexAIInput } from '@langchain/google-vertexai'

type SupportedAuthOptions = ChatVertexAIInput['authOptions'] | VertexAIInput['authOptions']

export const buildGoogleCredentials = async (nodeData: INodeData, options: ICommonObject): Promise<SupportedAuthOptions | null> => {
    const credentialData = await getCredentialData(nodeData.credential ?? '', options)
    const googleApplicationCredentialFilePath = getCredentialParam('googleApplicationCredentialFilePath', credentialData, nodeData)
    const googleApplicationCredential = getCredentialParam('googleApplicationCredential', credentialData, nodeData)
    const projectID = getCredentialParam('projectID', credentialData, nodeData)

    const authOptions: any = {}
    if (Object.keys(credentialData).length !== 0) {
        if (!googleApplicationCredentialFilePath && !googleApplicationCredential)
            throw new Error('Please specify your Google Application Credential')
        if (!googleApplicationCredentialFilePath && !googleApplicationCredential)
            throw new Error(
                'Error: More than one component has been inputted. Please use only one of the following: Google Application Credential File Path or Google Credential JSON Object'
            )

        if (googleApplicationCredentialFilePath && !googleApplicationCredential) authOptions.keyFile = googleApplicationCredentialFilePath
        else if (!googleApplicationCredentialFilePath && googleApplicationCredential)
            authOptions.credentials = JSON.parse(googleApplicationCredential)

        if (projectID) authOptions.projectId = projectID
    }

    return authOptions
}

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Solutions

1. Provide EITHER the service-account JSON file path in googleApplicationCredentialFilePath OR paste the JSON content into googleApplicationCredential.
2. Verify the credential component attached to the node is the one you intend (nodeData.credential resolves to it).
3. If you intend to use Application Default Credentials via the environment, remove the credential from the node entirely so credentialData is empty and the function returns empty authOptions (falls back to ADC).
4. Report the dead-code 'More than one component' branch: its condition should be `googleApplicationCredentialFilePath && googleApplicationCredential` to actually guard the both-provided case.

Example fix

// before: credential attached, both fields blank
credentialData = { name: 'GoogleAuth' } // no file path, no JSON
buildGoogleCredentials(nodeData, options) // throws

// after: provide one
credentialData.googleApplicationCredentialFilePath = '/etc/flowise/gcp-sa.json'

// Validate Google credential shape before calling buildGoogleCredentials
function assertGoogleCredential(credentialData) {
    if (Object.keys(credentialData).length === 0) return // ADC fallback is fine
    const { googleApplicationCredentialFilePath, googleApplicationCredential } = credentialData
    if (!googleApplicationCredentialFilePath && !googleApplicationCredential) {
        throw new Error('Provide either googleApplicationCredentialFilePath or googleApplicationCredential')
    }
    if (googleApplicationCredentialFilePath && googleApplicationCredential) {
        throw new Error('Provide only ONE of file path or JSON object')
    }
}

function hasGoogleCredentialSource(credentialData) {
    const { googleApplicationCredentialFilePath, googleApplicationCredential } = credentialData
    return Boolean(googleApplicationCredentialFilePath) !== Boolean(googleApplicationCredential) // exactly one
}

try {
    const auth = await buildGoogleCredentials(nodeData, options)
} catch (e) {
    if (/specify your Google Application Credential/i.test(e.message)) {
        // prompt the user to attach a Google credential with a file path or JSON
    }
    throw e
}

When it happens

Trigger: A Google credential component is attached to the node (so credentialData is non-empty) but neither the file path nor the JSON object field is filled in.

Common situations: Created a Google Auth credential record but left both fields blank; the file path was cleared during an edit; migrating from file path to JSON object and removed the path before adding the JSON.

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AI-assisted analysis of FlowiseAI/Flowise@abe4a8601a (2026-08-12). Data as JSON: /api/errors/158262618d829bd9. Report an issue: GitHub.