[Bug]: TypeError: api_1.default is not a constructor in Nestjs

[mustafakendiguzel]

Software Version

7.3.0

Language Version

21.4.0

Operating System

Windows

What happened?

1. Imported easypost-node library in nestjs
2. Attempt to create new EasyPostClient via

import EasyPost from '@easypost/api';
export class ShippingMailingService {
  private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPost
  constructor() { 
    this.easyPostClient = new EasyPost('apiKey')
  }
}

3. Upon building, error is thrown that . TypeError: api_1.default is not a constructor
4. Tsconfig.json

{
  "compilerOptions": {
    "module": "commonjs",
    "declaration": false,
    "removeComments": true,
    "noLib": false,
    "emitDecoratorMetadata": true,
    "experimentalDecorators": true,
    "allowSyntheticDefaultImports": true,
    "resolveJsonModule": true,
    "target": "es2017",
    "sourceMap": true,
    "allowJs": true,
    "outDir": "./dist",
    "baseUrl": "./",
    "lib": ["ES7", "ES2021", "DOM"],
    "incremental": true,
    "skipLibCheck": true,
    "strictNullChecks": false,
    "noImplicitAny": false,
    "strictBindCallApply": false,
    "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": false,
    "noFallthroughCasesInSwitch": false,
  }
}

What was expected?

To be able to build the app while using EasyPostClient

Sample Code

import EasyPost from '@easypost/api';

export class ShippingMailingService {
  private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPost
  constructor() { 
    this.easyPostClient = new EasyPost('apiKey')
  }
}

Relevant logs

No response

[nwithan8]

Hello there, thanks for writing in!

I believe there's an issue with your provided code snippet, you should be trying to construct an EasyPostClient object, not an EasyPost object

import EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api'; 

export class ShippingMailingService { 
  private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPostClient constructor() { this.easyPostClient = new EasyPostClient('apiKey') } }

[mustafakendiguzel]

Hello there, thanks for writing in!

I believe there's an issue with your provided code snippet, you should be trying to construct an EasyPostClient object, not an EasyPost object

import EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api'; 

export class ShippingMailingService { 
  private readonly easyPostClient: EasyPostClient constructor() { this.easyPostClient = new EasyPostClient('apiKey') } }

Thanks for the answer Nate Harris (@nwithan8).
I get the same error that didn't solve this problem.

[heindrik]

has anyone found a workaround for this yet?

[AshuImmencer05]

Even i tried these solutions but still i am getting the same error

[chr0m1ng]

AshuImmencer05 Heindrik (@heindrik) Mustafa Kendigüzel (@mustafakendiguzel)
Hey folks, I've found a workaround, import under dist/easypost:

import EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api/dist/easypost'

const client = new EasyPostClient(api_key)

[AshuImmencer05]

Gabriel Santos (@chr0m1ng) Thank you so much ,your solution was really helpful it worked out pretty well..

[AshuImmencer05]

Heindrik (@heindrik) Gabriel Santos (@chr0m1ng) Nate Harris (@nwithan8) Justin Hammond (@Justintime50) Mustafa Kendigüzel (@mustafakendiguzel) Guys I just wanted to ask a simple question, as i create shipment using api from the backend response object i get from easypost is very large so basically which has properties that are not required so how to get an ideal response which can help reduce the response time and prevent us from security breaks and other stuff etc?

[nwithan8]

Heindrik (@heindrik) Gabriel Santos (@chr0m1ng) Nate Harris (@nwithan8) Justin Hammond (@Justintime50) Mustafa Kendigüzel (@mustafakendiguzel) Guys I just wanted to ask a simple question, as i create shipment using api from the backend response object i get from easypost is very large so basically which has properties that are not required so how to get an ideal response which can help reduce the response time and prevent us from security breaks and other stuff etc?

The API will always return the complete record for any given object (e.g. a Shipment), so there is no way to necessarily reduce the response payload size. You can reduce your request payloads by sending only the ID of existing server-side records (e.g. the ID of an existing Shipment), as that is all the server requires to locate and interact with an existing record.

This question is unrelated to the original issue. To avoid pinging the other subscribers to this thread, if you have any additional questions, please open a separate ticket or reach out to our support team at support@easypost.com.

[matAlmeida]

I'm facing the problem on version 7.5.4 and the solution presented by Gabriel Santos (@chr0m1ng) isn't working as well.

@AshuImmencer05 @heindrik @mustafakendiguzel Hey folks, I've found a workaround, import under dist/easypost:

import EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api/dist/easypost'

const client = new EasyPostClient(api_key)

To solve I changed to the following way:

import type EasyPost from '@easypost/api/types/EasyPost'
import * as EasyPostClient from '@easypost/api'

// @ts-ignore
const client: EasyPost = new EasyPostClient("API_KEY")

I think there is some problem in the type definition in the commit from Alex Matthews (@ralexmatthews) (94dcc91)

[ralexmatthews]

Matheus Almeida (@matAlmeida) thank you for raising this issue. It should be fixed with #492.

[Justintime50]

Can ya'll give v7.5.5 a try and see if that corrects your issues?