RocketChat/Rocket.Chat · error · Meteor.Error

Invalid User

Invalid User

Error message

Invalid User

What it means

The Meteor method wrapper for addOutgoingIntegration throws Meteor.Error('Invalid User') when this.userId is falsy — the DDP call came from a connection without an authenticated user. Unlike sibling methods it carries no details object and the code string doubles as the message.

Source

Thrown at apps/meteor/server/meteor-methods/integrations/outgoing/addOutgoingIntegration.ts:82

	const { insertedId } = await Integrations.insertOne(removeEmpty(integrationData));

	const integrationStored = await Integrations.findOne({ _id: insertedId });

	if (!integrationStored) {
		throw new Error('Error inserting integration');
	}

	void notifyOnIntegrationChanged({ ...integrationStored, _id: insertedId }, 'inserted');

	return integrationStored as IOutgoingIntegration;
};

Meteor.methods<ServerMethods>({
	async addOutgoingIntegration(integration: INewOutgoingIntegration): Promise<IOutgoingIntegration> {
		methodDeprecationLogger.method('addOutgoingIntegration', '9.0.0', '/v1/integrations.create');
		const { userId } = this;
		if (!userId) {
			throw new Meteor.Error('Invalid User');
		}

		return addOutgoingIntegration(userId, integration);
	},
});

View on GitHub (pinned to b2c16d5842)

Solutions

1. Authenticate and retry the method call
2. Use POST /v1/integrations.create with X-Auth-Token/X-User-Id headers for programmatic access
3. In server-side tests, stub the user context before invoking the method

Example fix

// before
Meteor.call('addOutgoingIntegration', integration);

// after
if (!Meteor.userId()) {
  throw new Meteor.Error('Invalid User', 'Login required');
}
await Meteor.callAsync('addOutgoingIntegration', integration);

if (!Meteor.userId()) {
  throw new Meteor.Error('Invalid User', 'Login required');
}
await Meteor.callAsync('addOutgoingIntegration', integration);

try {
  await Meteor.callAsync('addOutgoingIntegration', integration);
} catch (err) {
  if (err instanceof Meteor.Error && err.error === 'Invalid User') {
    // re-authenticate, then retry once
    return;
  }
  throw err;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Meteor.call('addOutgoingIntegration', integration) while logged out, or with an expired login whose resume did not bind a user to the connection.

Common situations: Automation scripts invoking DDP directly; integrations admin page after session expiry; unit tests that forget to stub a user on the method context.

Related errors

• not_authorized
• error-invalid-user
• not_authorized
• not_authorized
• error-invalid-user

AI-assisted analysis of RocketChat/Rocket.Chat@b2c16d5842 (2026-08-18). Data as JSON: /api/errors/9bd7d8f81095e411. Report an issue: GitHub.