jackwener/OpenCLI · error · ArgumentError

xianyu publish ${label} cannot be empty

Error message

xianyu publish ${label} cannot be empty

What it means

The `xianyu publish` helper's requireText() normalizes a required field (title, description, condition label, etc.) by trimming and collapsing whitespace; if the result is empty, it throws ArgumentError `xianyu publish ${label} cannot be empty` at clis/xianyu/publish.js:29. The library refuses to open the publish flow with blank required fields, since Goofish would reject them anyway.

Source

Thrown at clis/xianyu/publish.js:29

    return 'https://www.goofish.com/publish';
}

async function getCurrentPageUrl(page) {
    if (page.getCurrentUrl) {
        try {
            const currentUrl = await page.getCurrentUrl();
            if (currentUrl) return currentUrl;
        } catch {
            // Best-effort URL is only used for operator diagnostics after submit.
        }
    }
    return buildPublishUrl();
}

function requireText(value, label) {
    const text = String(value ?? '').replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();
    if (!text) {
        throw new ArgumentError(`xianyu publish ${label} cannot be empty`);
    }
    return text;
}

function parsePositivePrice(value, label) {
    if (value == null || String(value).trim() === '') {
        return null;
    }
    const text = String(value).trim();
    if (!/^\d+(?:\.\d{1,2})?$/.test(text)) {
        throw new ArgumentError(`xianyu publish ${label} must be a positive price with at most 2 decimals`);
    }
    const price = Number(text);
    if (!Number.isFinite(price) || price <= 0) {
        throw new ArgumentError(`xianyu publish ${label} must be a positive price`);
    }
    return text;
}

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Solutions

1. Provide a non-empty value for the flagged field (the message names it via ${label}, e.g. 'xianyu publish title cannot be empty').
2. Trim and validate inputs in your caller before invoking publish.
3. Check that config/env values feeding these fields are actually populated, not empty strings.
4. Add required-field validation at your app's input boundary with a clear user-facing error.
5. If a field should be optional, don't pass null/'' — pass a sensible default.

Example fix

// before
await publish({ title: draft.title }); // draft.title may be ''

// after
const title = (draft.title ?? '').trim();
if (!title) throw new Error('draft has no title — cannot publish');
await publish({ title });

for (const [label, v] of Object.entries({ title, description })) {
  if (!String(v ?? '').trim()) throw new Error(`publish field '${label}' must be a non-empty string`);
}

function isNonEmptyText(v) { return typeof v === 'string' && v.trim().length > 0; }

try {
  await publish(args);
} catch (e) {
  if (e instanceof ArgumentError && /cannot be empty/.test(e.message)) {
    const field = e.message.match(/publish (.+) cannot be empty/)?.[1];
    console.error(`Missing required publish field: ${field}`);
  } else throw e;
}

When it happens

Trigger: Calling the publish command/normalizePublishArgs with a null, undefined, empty string, or whitespace-only value for a required text field — e.g. publish({ title: ' ' }) or a missing --description flag; condition producing an empty label via requireText.

Common situations: Config/env variables that are set but empty ('' from unset CI secrets); a form/JSON input where optional-looking fields were omitted; whitespace-only values from copy-pasted templates; code paths passing undefined because an upstream object lacked the key.

Understand the failure class

Background: "Missing required field" and "field is required" errors: why libraries reject payloads that omit mandatory fields — this error's family across 20 libraries.

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