gofr-dev/gofr · error

bucket name must not be empty

Error message

bucket name must not be empty

What it means

errEmptyBucketName is a sentinel error returned by CreateBucket when the requested bucket name is an empty string. InfluxDB requires a bucket name, so the gofr datasource validates it before making the API call.

Source

Thrown at pkg/gofr/datasource/influxdb/influxdb.go:53

}

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. Set a non-empty Name on the bucket options before CreateBucket
2. Validate user-supplied bucket names at the input boundary
3. Check the config file/env key spelling feeding the name

Example fix

// before
client.CreateBucket(ctx, BucketConfig{Name: ""})
// after
if name == "" {
    return errors.New("bucket name is required")
}
client.CreateBucket(ctx, BucketConfig{Name: name})

if name == "" {
    return errors.New("bucket name is required")
}
client.CreateBucket(ctx, BucketConfig{Name: name})

if err := client.CreateBucket(ctx, cfg); err != nil {
    if err.Error() == "bucket name must not be empty" {
        // reject input upstream
    }
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling CreateBucket with a config/struct whose Name field is "".

Common situations: Building bucket options from user input without validation; template or config interpolation that rendered to empty; typo in the config key (e.g. bucketid vs bucketName).

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 id 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/1eeb2edf855336db. Report an issue: GitHub.