error: datastore key does not have a valid format

[oliveriosousa]

• Version:
  0.58.4

• Subsystem:
  ipfs
  js-ipfs-interfaces

Severity:

High

Description:

• Error when trying to create an IPFS node:

datastore key does not have a valid format

Steps to reproduce the error:

• Run IPFS.create();

Maybe it is related with js-ipfs-interfaces bump version (currently is in version 6) and IPFS is targeting the 5 version.

cc @hugomrdias @achingbrain

[achingbrain]

Please use v5 until #3864 is shipped

[ggcaponetto]

having the same issue. what does use v5 mean?

[achingbrain]

@ggcaponetto interface-datastore@v6 needs a coordinated release with libp2p as it's currently depending on v5.

You shouldn't be pulling it in though - can you provide a way of reproducing the error you are seeing?

[ggcaponetto]

@achingbrain while trying to set up the minimal setup to reproduce the example i found out that deleting the package-lock.json and performing a fresh npm i it solved the problem. I guess i had separate installations of the ipfs modules.

the only dependency i have now is "ipfs": "^0.58.4" and this problem didn't occur anymore. Thanks!