Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm · error

Message is required

Error message

Message is required

What it means

Validation guard in the mobile stream-chat command handler: the command payload lacks a message field, so there is no user prompt to stream a chat response for and the command is rejected with the required-field error.

Source

Thrown at server/endpoints/mobile/utils/index.js:150

  if (command === "new-thread") {
    const { workspaceSlug } = body;
    const workspace = user
      ? await Workspace.getWithUser(user, { slug: String(workspaceSlug) })
      : await Workspace.get({ slug: String(workspaceSlug) });

    if (!workspace)
      return response.status(400).json({ error: "Workspace not found" });
    const { thread } = await WorkspaceThread.new(workspace, user?.id);
    return response.status(200).json({ thread });
  }

  if (command === "stream-chat") {
    const { workspaceSlug = null, threadSlug = null, message } = body;
    if (!workspaceSlug)
      return response.status(400).json({ error: "Workspace ID is required" });
    else if (!message)
      return response.status(400).json({ error: "Message is required" });

    const workspace = user
      ? await Workspace.getWithUser(user, { slug: String(workspaceSlug) })
      : await Workspace.get({ slug: String(workspaceSlug) });

    if (!workspace)
      return response.status(400).json({ error: "Workspace not found" });
    const thread = threadSlug
      ? await prisma.workspace_threads.findFirst({
          where: {
            workspace_id: workspace.id,
            slug: String(threadSlug),
            ...(user ? { user_id: user.id } : {}),
          },
        })
      : null;

    response.setHeader("Cache-Control", "no-cache");

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Solutions

1. Include a non-empty message in the request.
2. Check the client is serializing the message body correctly.

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at server/endpoints/mobile/utils/index.js:146 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: Sending a chat/command request from mobile without a message body.

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