jackwener/OpenCLI · warning · ArgumentError

type must be a GeoGebra object type like point, line, or cir

Error message

type must be a GeoGebra object type like point, line, or circle

What it means

An ArgumentError raised by `geogebra list --type <t>` when the type filter contains characters outside [a-z-]. The filter is meant to be a lowercase GeoGebra object type keyword (point, line, circle, segment, conic, etc.); anything else — mixed case, digits, spaces, underscores — is rejected before reaching the applet.

Source

Thrown at clis/geogebra/list.js:23

cli({
  site: 'geogebra',
  name: 'list',
  access: 'read',
  description: 'List all geometric objects on the GeoGebra canvas',
  domain: 'www.geogebra.org',
  strategy: Strategy.PUBLIC,
  browser: true,
  navigateBefore: false,
  args: [
    { name: 'type', required: false, help: 'Filter by object type (e.g. "point", "line", "circle")' },
  ],
  columns: ['name', 'type', 'value', 'visible'],
  func: async (page, kwargs) => {
    const filterType = kwargs.type == null || kwargs.type === ''
      ? ''
      : String(kwargs.type).trim().toLowerCase();
    if (filterType && !/^[a-z-]+$/.test(filterType)) {
      throw new ArgumentError('type must be a GeoGebra object type like point, line, or circle');
    }
    await ensureApplet(page);
    const objects = await ggbListObjects(page, filterType);
    if (!Array.isArray(objects) || objects.length === 0) {
      throw new EmptyResultError(
        'geogebra list',
        'No objects found on the canvas. Fresh runs start a blank session; use one "eval" call, or inspect an already-bound tab through the browser workspace commands.',
      );
    }
    return objects;
  },
});

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Solutions

1. Use a lowercase type keyword: point, line, circle, segment, conic, polygon, etc.
2. Lowercase and strip spaces from the value before passing it
3. If you meant a specific object, use `geogebra info --name <label>` instead of list --type
4. Omit --type entirely to list all objects and filter client-side

Example fix

// before
opencli geogebra list --type "Point"
// after
opencli geogebra list --type "point"

const type = String(process.argv.type ?? '').trim().toLowerCase();
if (type && !/^[a-z-]+$/.test(type)) {
  throw new Error(`--type must be a lowercase GeoGebra type like point, line, circle; got "${type}"`);
}

const isValidTypeFilter = (t) => t == null || t === '' || /^[a-z-]+$/.test(String(t).trim().toLowerCase());

try {
  await run('geogebra', 'list', '--type', type);
} catch (err) {
  if (/type must be a GeoGebra object type/.test(err.message)) {
    return run('geogebra', 'list'); // list all, filter client-side
  }
  throw err;
}

When it happens

Trigger: `geogebra list --type 'Point'` (uppercase), `--type 'line segment'` (space), `--type 'poly1'` (digits — that's a label, not a type).

Common situations: Users passing an object label instead of a type; capitalizing the type name; trying to filter by name with the --type flag.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Must be a positive integer", "Invalid value", "Unsupported": the invalid-argument-value error family, when a library rejects the value you pass — this error's family across 35 libraries.

Related errors

• Use either --point or --radius, not both
• Provide --radius (number or point label) or --point (point o
• type must be one of: line, segment, ray
• command must contain at least one GeoGebra command
• <train-no> "${trainNo}" does not look like a 12306 internal

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