TypeError: Cannot read property 'getConstants' of null,

[0xtruly]

Hi, I am trying to convert an image url prefixed with https:// into base64 string using the react-native-blob-util, however I got this error after installing and also doing a pod install

• react-native-blob-util Version: 0.17.0

• RN Version: 0.70.4

     const handleShare = async () => {
       const meetupImageUrl = getImageUrl(meetup.cover_photo, ImageVariant.preview);
       await ReactNativeBlobUtil.fetch('GET', meetupImageUrl)
          .then((res) => { 
           let status = res.info().status;
            if (status == 200) {
                // the conversion is done in native code
                let base64Str = res.base64();
                console.log('base64Str', base64Str);
            }
            else {
                // handle other status codes
            }
        })
        // Something went wrong:
        .catch((errorMessage, statusCode) => {
            // error handling
        });
    console.log('meetupImageUrl', meetupImageUrl)
   };
  

[RonRadtke]

Did you install the package (and link) and rebuild the app and cleaned build caches first if needed? Sounds like it didn't load the lib correctly.

[0xtruly]

Did you install the package (and link) and rebuild the app and cleaned build caches first if needed? Sounds like it didn't load the lib correctly.

Yes I took this exact steps

[SheetJSDev]

To reproduce:

npx react-native init RNBU204 --version="0.70.6"
cd RNBU204
npm i --save react-native-blob-util
echo "import RNFetchBlob from 'react-native-blob-util';" >> App.js 
npm run ios

The Metro window shows the following errors:

 ERROR  TypeError: Cannot read property 'getConstants' of null, js engine: hermes
 ERROR  Invariant Violation: Failed to call into JavaScript module method AppRegistry.runApplication(). Module has not been registered as callable. Registered callable JavaScript modules (n = 10): Systrace, JSTimers, HeapCapture, SamplingProfiler, RCTLog, RCTDeviceEventEmitter, RCTNativeAppEventEmitter, GlobalPerformanceLogger, JSDevSupportModule, HMRClient.
        A frequent cause of the error is that the application entry file path is incorrect. This can also happen when the JS bundle is corrupt or there is an early initialization error when loading React Native., js engine: hermes

For iOS, the "fix" is to run pod install from the ios folder and rebuild the app. To see that in action, close Metro and run:

cd ios; pod install; cd ..
npm run ios

This probably should be documented somewhere, since the current documentation strongly suggests npm install suffices when working with RN 0.70 ("manual linking should not be required" and the actual react-native link command was removed)

[0xtruly]

@SheetJSDev I'm going to try out your suggestions. Although I no longer need this package as I found another solution

[RGLxAkuma]

@SheetJSDev I'm going to try out your suggestions. Although I no longer need this package as I found another solution

What solution you found as I am getting the exact error when I tried this package

[SheetJSDev]

For iOS, the "fix" is to run pod install from the ios folder and rebuild the app:

cd ios; pod install; cd ..
npm run ios

[RGLxAkuma]

For iOS, the "fix" is to run pod install from the ios folder and rebuild the app:

cd ios; pod install; cd ..
npm run ios

For android is there any solution??

[SheetJSDev]

Our React Native + RNBU demo (https://docs.sheetjs.com/docs/demos/mobile/reactnative#demo select "RNBU" in step 4) builds and runs in the simulator for Android 12 (S) Platform 31 Pixel 5. This works in RN 0.70.6 + RNBU 0.17.1 and in RN 0.70.4 + RN 0.17.0 (the versions used by @dekunleroy).

Can you test if the same issue shows up in a new project? Try:

npx react-native init RNBU204 --version="0.70.4"
cd RNBU204
npm i --save [email protected]
echo "import RNFetchBlob from 'react-native-blob-util';" >> App.js 
npm run android

[SheetJSDev]

Issue can be reproduced in Expo Snack (both iOS and Android). https://github.com/expo/snack/issues/385 tracking issue.

[RonRadtke]

Issue can be reproduced in Expo Snack (both iOS and Android). expo/snack#385 tracking issue.

Yeah but this is expo. I'm using native code and as far as I know am not part of the Expo SDK... So it won' work.

[SheetJSDev]

Expo Snack issue was raised when trying to make our react native demo work with the snack. It happened to have the same message but

This issue is reproducible locally on iOS using the first snippet from an up-thread comment https://github.com/RonRadtke/react-native-blob-util/issues/204#issuecomment-1374646366 :

npx react-native init RNBU204 --version="0.70.6"
cd RNBU204
npm i --save react-native-blob-util
echo "import RNFetchBlob from 'react-native-blob-util';" >> App.js 
npm run ios

Tested on iPhone 14 (iOS 16.2), the error is

 ERROR  TypeError: Cannot read property 'getConstants' of null, js engine: hermes

The project issue is resolved by running pod install from the ios directory and rebuilding:

cd ios; pod install; cd ..
npm run ios

It's hard to tell if this is a bug in RNBU or merely an oversight in the docs. The Installation section of the docs does not mention the pod install step.

[RonRadtke]

I would add the pod install to the docs. It makes sense that a pod install might be required. But we had some issues on ios side too: https://github.com/RonRadtke/react-native-blob-util/pull/219

[WaheedRumaneh]

if you face this issue when trying to test your code , put this code in setup file :

jest.mock('react-native-blob-util', () => { return { DocumentDir: () => {}, polyfill: () => {}, }; });

if you don't have the setup file you can add it like this:

• create a new file setup/setup.test.ts inside your __test__ directory
• link it with jest.config.js by adding this code setupFiles: ['<rootDir>/__tests__/setup/setup.test.ts'], testPathIgnorePatterns: [ '<rootDir>/__tests__/setup', ... ],
  • stop the metro if it was running and re-run the app again

now you can add any general mock like i mentioned at the beginning or test functions inside it to be applied on all your test cases.

[SoyDiego]

Same issue here when I'm trying to start the APP. Any solution?

Thanks

[Jheysson]

Same issue

[babarbahadur]

I tried adding mock code into setup file.

jest.mock('react-native-blob-util', () => { return { DocumentDir: () => {}, polyfill: () => {}, }; }); Also downgraded the library to version 0.17.0 but still facing the same issue :(

TypeError: Cannot read properties of null (reading 'getConstants')

 at Object.<anonymous> (node_modules/react-native-blob-util/fs.js:14:39)
 at Object.<anonymous> (node_modules/react-native-blob-util/index.js:8:1)

My apps works totally fine but facing this issue while testing with Jest

[sungsong88]

I have the same issue with Android. Any solutions? instrument.js cannot read property getConstants of null

[atologistdipak]

same issue

[raldred]

I was seeing this when running tests with jest. Sorted it by creating a manual mock __mocks__/react-native-blob-util.js containing simply:

export default jest.fn();

Which covered off tests which weren't actually touching react-native-blob-util. For tests of modules which did use react-native-blob-util, i mocked as follows:

jest.mock("react-native-blob-util", () => ({
  android: {
    actionViewIntent: jest.fn(),
  },
  ios: {
    openDocument: jest.fn(),
    previewDocument: jest.fn(),
  },
  config: jest.fn(),
  fs: {
    dirs: {
      DocumentDir: "yourdocumentdir",
      DownloadDir: "yourdownloadsdir",
    },
  },
}));

[zach-xing]

same issue

[Balthazar33]

if you face this issue when trying to test your code , put this code in setup file :

jest.mock('react-native-blob-util', () => { return { DocumentDir: () => {}, polyfill: () => {}, }; });

The following worked for me:

jest.mock('react-native-blob-util', () => {
  return {getConstants: () => {}, polyfill: () => {}};
});

P.S. I faced this error only while running jest.

[Milanjiji]

worked for me!

it was the issue of the version i was using 0.19.6 which was released about 2 weeks which was the problem i degraded the react-native-blob-util to version 0.19.5 and is working fine now.

[buyi-web]

Same issue with Android

[m-sterspace]

Anyone have any fix for Android??

[zdsantos]

Same here

[j-peace]

Same here

[m-sterspace]

In my case, I got these errors trying to use this with Expo Go, instead, you have to use an Expo Development build. You can create a dev build, sideload it onto your emulator / test device, and have it grab the latest js bundle automatically (just like expo go), by running npx expo run:android

[kirtikapadiya]

worked for me!

it was the issue of the version i was using 0.19.6 which was released about 2 weeks which was the problem i degraded the react-native-blob-util to version 0.19.5 and is working fine now.

not working with expo SDK 49 with expo go.

[m-sterspace]

worked for me!

it was the issue of the version i was using 0.19.6 which was released about 2 weeks which was the problem i degraded the react-native-blob-util to version 0.19.5 and is working fine now.

not working with expo SDK 49 with expo go.

It will not work with Expo Go, you need to use Expo Development Builds.

[snitraM4500]

if you face this issue when trying to test your code , put this code in setup file :

jest.mock('react-native-blob-util', () => { return { DocumentDir: () => {}, polyfill: () => {}, }; });

what do file do i put this information at ?