santifer/career-ops · error · Error

Profile photo is empty

Error message

Profile photo is empty: ${photo}

What it means

Post-read emptiness check in the CV HTML builder: the photo file was found and read successfully but contains zero bytes, so there is no image data to embed. Usually a truncated download, an empty placeholder file, or a git-LFS pointer that never resolved.

Solutions

1. Replace the empty file with a real image
2. Re-download or re-export the photo
3. If using git-LFS, ensure the binary was actually pulled (git lfs pull)

When it happens

Trigger: Thrown at build-cv-html.mjs:160 when the library encounters an invalid state.

Common situations: See trigger scenarios.

AI-assisted analysis of santifer/career-ops@e7abd431fc (2026-09-16). Data as JSON: /api/errors/0ad2bdf92a932c4c. Report an issue: GitHub.

Appendix: source

Thrown at build-cv-html.mjs:160

  if (/^[a-z][a-z0-9+.-]+:/i.test(photo)) {
    throw new Error(`Unsupported profile photo URL scheme: ${photo.split(':', 1)[0]}`);
  }

  const photoPath = isAbsolute(photo) ? photo : resolve(__dirname, photo);
  const mime = PHOTO_MIME_BY_EXT.get(extname(photoPath).toLowerCase());
  if (!mime) {
    throw new Error(`Unsupported profile photo format: ${photo} (expected PNG, JPEG, WebP, or GIF)`);
  }

  let bytes;
  try {
    bytes = await readFile(photoPath);
  } catch (err) {
    throw new Error(`Profile photo not found or unreadable: ${photo} (${err.code || err.message})`);
  }
  if (bytes.length === 0) {
    throw new Error(`Profile photo is empty: ${photo}`);
  }
  c.photo = `data:${mime};base64,${bytes.toString('base64')}`;
  return c;
}

function joinItems(items) {
  if (Array.isArray(items)) return items.join(', ');
  return typeof items === 'string' ? items : '';
}

// ── Section partials (#2183) ────────────────────────────────────────────────
//
// Resolve the sections/ directory co-located with a given template file.
// For "templates/cv-template.html" this is "templates/sections/".
// For a custom pack at "templates/cv-template.compact.html" we look for
// "templates/sections/" first (shared by all templates in that directory),
// then fall back to the built-in builders.
//

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