Kong/insomnia · error

No root document ID supplied for backend project

Error message

No root document ID supplied for backend project

What it means

Error "No root document ID supplied for backend project" thrown in Kong/insomnia.

Source

Thrown at packages/insomnia-vcs/src/vcs.ts:1531

    const branch = await this._getBranch(name);

    if (branch === null) {
      await this._storeBranch({
        name,
        created: new Date(),
        modified: new Date(),
        snapshots: [],
      });
      return this._getOrCreateBranch(name);
    }

    return branch;
  }

  async _getBackendProjectByRootDocument(rootDocumentId: string) {
    if (!rootDocumentId) {
      throw new Error('No root document ID supplied for backend project');
    }

    // First, try finding the project
    const backendProjects = await this._allBackendProjects();
    let matchedBackendProjects = backendProjects.filter(p => p.rootDocumentId === rootDocumentId);

    // If there is more than one project for root, try pruning unused ones by branch activity
    if (matchedBackendProjects.length > 1) {
      for (const p of matchedBackendProjects) {
        const branches = await this._getBranches(p.id);

        if (!branches.find(b => b.snapshots.length > 0)) {
          await this._removeProject(p);
          matchedBackendProjects = matchedBackendProjects.filter(({ id }) => id !== p.id);
          console.log(`[sync] Remove inactive project for root ${rootDocumentId}`);
        }
      }
    }

View on GitHub (pinned to d9bb2b0142)

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at packages/insomnia-vcs/src/vcs.ts:1531 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of Kong/insomnia@d9bb2b0142 (2026-08-26). Data as JSON: /api/errors/4c1b9fafcd0df03a. Report an issue: GitHub.