"cordova-hcp server" not starting the HCP server

[Alex Bourlier]

Hi,

First of all, thank you for this great plugin which helped me save hours so far.

Since this morning though, the HCP server refuses to start. I tried several thing, including :

• killing the service which I didn't find
• restarting my machine
• reinstalling cordova-hot-code-push-cli
• reinstalling ngrok

I am kind of stuck... What happens is the following :
Here is what happens :

[root@happydev mlb_cordova]# cordova-hcp server
Running server
[root@happydev mlb_cordova]# 

I am not sure where to look for logs.
I am willing to help out. If one could give me some tip that could get me going. Any suggestion is most welcome.

[walker-j]

I have been having the exact same problem since around yesterday morning.

I also tried similar steps to you to try to resolve things, no luck though.

Poking around in dist/server.js it seems that of the 5 functions pushed onto the 'funcs' array, only the first is ever executed. ie, from line 37:

function execute(context) {
    chcpContext = context;
    ignoredFiles = context.ignoredFiles();
    chcpContext.argv.localdev = true;
    sourceDirectory = chcpContext.sourceDirectory;

    var executeDfd = Q.defer(),
        funcs = [];

    // Is called
    funcs.push(function () { 
      return publicTunnel(assetPort);
    });

    // Not called
    funcs.push(function (content_url) {
      var dfd = Q.defer();

      opts.content_url = content_url;
      chcpContext.argv.content_url = content_url;

      dfd.resolve();
      return dfd.promise;
    });

    // Not called
    funcs.push(function (debugOpts) {
      if (debugOpts) {
        opts.debug_url = debugOpts.debug_url;
        opts.console_url = debugOpts.console_url;
      }

      return assetServer(opts);
    });

    // Not called
    funcs.push(function (local_url) {
      console.log('local_url', local_url);
      opts.local_url = local_url;

      return build(chcpContext);
    });

    // Not called
    funcs.push(function () {
      console.log('cordova-hcp local server available at: ' + opts.local_url);
      console.log('cordova-hcp public server available at: ' + opts.content_url);
    });

    return funcs.reduce(Q.when, Q('initial'));
  }

Although I'm not sure why...

I hope this helps in some way.

Thanks.

[Alex Bourlier]

Feels good not to be alone in this one :)

[walker-j]

Yep - I've been really scratching my head with this one, especially since
it has been working perfectly up until now!

[Alex Bourlier]

Same for me. Always worked like a charm.
Could you explain to me how do you go about debugging the plugin ?

I am willing to give it a look, but I am not sure how to.
Actually, asking you, I realize it is probably within some .npm folder. I'll have a look

[walker-j]

I was just doing it by putting 'console.log()' statements into different parts of the scripts using notepad++, so on running 'cordova-hcp server' I can see where we get up to before the code gives up.

(Globally installed npm packages are stored in C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules)

[Alex Bourlier]

OK, I managed to identify that ngrok.connect() never calls its callback.
So it must be an ngrok issue.

Here is the ngrok object as printed in the console :

ngrok { domain: null,
  _events: {},
  _maxListeners: 10,
  setMaxListeners: [Function: setMaxListeners],
  emit: [Function: emit],
  addListener: [Function: addListener],
  on: [Function: addListener],
  once: [Function: once],
  removeListener: [Function: removeListener],
  removeAllListeners: [Function: removeAllListeners],
  listeners: [Function: listeners],
  connect: [Function: connect],
  disconnect: [Function: disconnect] }

[Alex Bourlier]

Running ngrok http 31284 works though

[walker-j]

Interesting. I was wondering if it was something to do with ngrok and its graceful-fs 3.0.8 dependency:

 +-- ngrok@0.1.99
    `-- decompress-zip@0.1.0
      +-- binary@0.3.0
      | +-- buffers@0.1.1
      | `-- chainsaw@0.1.0
      |   `-- traverse@0.3.9
      +-- graceful-fs@3.0.8
      +-- mkpath@0.1.0
      +-- nopt@3.0.6
      | `-- abbrev@1.0.7
      +-- readable-stream@1.1.13
      `-- touch@0.0.3
        `-- nopt@1.0.10

Since I am getting the following warning on 'npm install -g cordova-hot-code-push-cli':

npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@3.0.8: graceful-fs version 3   
and before will fail on newer node releases. Please update to  
graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible.

[Alex Bourlier]

Hmmm. Hard to tell.
Still trying to figure out what is wrong with ngrok.connect() but it seems the function is not even called

[Alex Bourlier]

Here is what I just got as a response from ngrok while keep on digging :

data Server failed to allocate tunnel: The ngrok 1.X service has been sunset. 
Please upgrade to 2.0. More infromation is here: https://ngrok.com/sunset/1

I'll try to update and see

[Alex Bourlier]

Yes. It took me some time to figure out how to update the dependencies of a NPM package, but this post on SO helped me out.

I'll push a pull-request and we should be OK.
Thanks for leading me on the way. I can now return to being productive :)

If you go to the package.json file, and update the version of ngrok to "*", and then run npm update --save, you will be fine again.

[walker-j]

Great work! Your merge has sorted it.