alibaba/nacos · error · Error

transport must contain 1 to 64 letters, digits, +, or -

Error message

transport must contain 1 to 64 letters, digits, +, or -

What it means

validateTransport requires the transport identifier to match `^[0-9A-Za-z+\-]{1,64}$`: one to sixty-four characters of ASCII letters, digits, plus, or hyphen only. Throws when the value is empty (caught first by `required`), or contains spaces, underscores, slashes, or exceeds 64 chars.

Source

Thrown at console-ui-next/src/pages/newAgent/agent-console-model.ts:138

  const withoutTrailingCommas = value.replace(
    /("(?:\\.|[^"\\])*")|,\s*([}\]])/g,
    (match, quoted, closing) => quoted || closing || match,
  );
  return parseJson(withoutTrailingCommas, 'agentCard');
}

function isObject(value: unknown): value is Record<string, unknown> {
  return value !== null && !Array.isArray(value) && typeof value === 'object';
}

function optionalString(value: unknown): string | undefined {
  return typeof value === 'string' && value.trim() ? value.trim() : undefined;
}

function validateTransport(value: string): string {
  const transport = required(value, 'transport');
  if (!/^[0-9A-Za-z+-]{1,64}$/.test(transport)) {
    throw new Error('transport must contain 1 to 64 letters, digits, +, or -');
  }
  return transport;
}

function endpointKey(uri: string, transport: string): string {
  let parsed: URL;
  try {
    parsed = new URL(uri);
  } catch {
    throw new Error(`Invalid Endpoint URI: ${uri}`);
  }
  if (!parsed.protocol || !parsed.hostname || parsed.username || parsed.password || parsed.hash) {
    throw new Error(`Invalid Endpoint URI: ${uri}`);
  }
  let port = parsed.port;
  if (!port) {
    if (parsed.protocol === 'http:' || parsed.protocol === 'ws:') {
      port = '80';

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Solutions

  1. Use a short alphanumeric token, e.g. 'GRPC', 'HTTP', 'A2A', 'WSS'.
  2. Encode versions without slashes/dots: 'A2A-V2' instead of 'A2A/V2'.
  3. Trim the input and reject it client-side before submit with the same regex.

Example fix

// before
transport = 'a2a/v2 streaming'

// after
transport = 'A2A-V2'
Defensive patterns

Strategy: validation

Validate before calling

const TRANSPORT_RE = /^[0-9A-Za-z+-]{1,64}$/;
function checkTransport(v) { if (!TRANSPORT_RE.test(v)) throw new Error('transport format invalid'); }

Type guard

function isValidTransport(v: string): boolean {
  return /^[0-9A-Za-z+-]{1,64}$/.test(v);
}

Try / catch

try { validateTransport(t); } catch (e) {
  if (/transport must contain/.test(e.message)) { toast.error('Use letters, digits, + or - only (max 64)'); }
}

Prevention

When it happens

Trigger: User enters a transport like 'GRPC + HTTP' (space), 'a2a/v2' (slash), 'streaming_rpc' (underscore), or a name longer than 64 characters. Common transports are 'GRPC', 'HTTP', 'A2A', 'WS'.

Common situations: User treats transport as a free-form label. Including a version suffix with a slash or dot. Copy-paste introducing a trailing newline or space.

Related errors


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