balderdashy/sails · error

Cannot call res.render() - `req._sails` was not attached

Error message

Cannot call res.render() - `req._sails` was not attached

What it means

Error "Cannot call res.render() - `req._sails` was not attached" thrown in balderdashy/sails.

Source

Thrown at lib/router/res.js:321

    // (Otherwise, we can just rely on `send` to do that for us.)
    if (_.isString(data)) {
      data = JSON.stringify(data);
      res.set('content-type', 'application/json');
    }

    return res.status(res.statusCode || 200).send(data);
  };

  // res.render()
  res.render = res.render || function _renderShim (relativeViewPath, locals, cb) {
    if (_.isFunction(locals)) {
      cb = locals;
      locals = {};
    }

    try {
      if (!req._sails) {
        throw new Error('Cannot call res.render() - `req._sails` was not attached');
      }
      if (!req._sails.renderView) {
        throw new Error('Cannot call res.render() - `req._sails.renderView` was not attached (perhaps `views` hook is not enabled?)');
      }

      res.set('content-type', 'text/html');

      // - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
      // TODO:
      // Instead of this shim, turn `sails.renderView` into something like
      // `sails.hooks.views.render()`, and then call it.
      throw flaverr({statusCode: 501}, new Error('Not implemented in core yet'));
      //
      // Instead, do something like the following:
      // ```
      // var html;
      // // ...
      // if (cb) {

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When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at lib/router/res.js:321 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of balderdashy/sails@7b76422cc2 (2026-09-01). Data as JSON: /api/errors/cb2e74208ce507c2. Report an issue: GitHub.