gofr-dev/gofr · error

bucket id must not be empty

Error message

bucket id must not be empty

What it means

errEmptyBucketID is a sentinel error thrown when DeleteBucket is called with an empty bucket ID. The datasource guards required identifiers before hitting InfluxDB so callers get a clear, deterministic error instead of an API-side failure. Tests also use it to exercise the guard path.

Source

Thrown at pkg/gofr/datasource/influxdb/influxdb.go:52

	tracer  trace.Tracer
}

type HealthInflux struct {
	URL      string
	Token    string
	Username string
	Password string
}

const (
	statusDown = "DOWN"
	statusUp   = "UP"
)

var (
	errEmptyOrganizationName = errors.New("organization name must not be empty")
	errEmptyOrganizationID   = errors.New("organization id must not be empty")
	errEmptyBucketID         = errors.New("bucket id must not be empty")
	errEmptyBucketName       = errors.New("bucket name must not be empty")
	errFetchOrganization     = errors.New("failed to fetch all organizations")
	errHealthCheckFailed     = errors.New("influxdb health check failed")
)

// CreateOrganization creates a new organization in InfluxDB with the specified name.
// It implements the container.InfluxDBProvider interface.
//
// Parameters:
// - ctx: Context for request cancellation and timeouts.
// - orgName: The name of the organization to be created. Must not be empty.
//
// Returns:
// - string: The ID of the newly created organization.
// - error: Error if organization creation fails or if orgName is empty.
func (c *Client) CreateOrganization(ctx context.Context, orgName string) (string, error) {
	if orgName == "" {
		return "", errEmptyOrganizationName

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Solutions

1. Pass a non-empty bucket ID to DeleteBucket
2. Verify the bucket ID lookup (ListOrganization/bucket enumeration) actually returned a value
3. Add config validation at service startup

Example fix

// before
client.DeleteBucket("")
// after
if bucketID == "" {
    return errors.New("bucket id is required")
}
client.DeleteBucket(bucketID)

if bucketID == "" {
    return errors.New("bucket id is required")
}
client.DeleteBucket(ctx, bucketID)

if err := client.DeleteBucket(ctx, bucketID); err != nil {
    if err.Error() == "bucket id must not be empty" {
        // look up bucket ID again or surface config error
    }
}

When it happens

Trigger: DeleteBucket("") — bucket ID not set or lost between listing buckets and deleting one.

Common situations: Dynamically resolving bucket IDs where the lookup returned empty; string fields zero-valued after partial struct construction; YAML/JSON config missing the bucket id.

Understand the failure class

Background: "missing required argument" and "the following required arguments were not provided": what required-argument errors mean and how to fix them — this error's family across 20 libraries.

Related errors

• organization id must not be empty
• bucket name must not be empty
• %w: negative offset %d
• out of range
• incorrect file type

AI-assisted analysis of gofr-dev/gofr@187eb24962 (2026-09-01). Data as JSON: /api/errors/836ec745ac2578f9. Report an issue: GitHub.