error TS2571: Object is of type 'unknown'

[VittorioAccomazzi]

I'm running in to this error when starting a project as follow:

npx express-generator-typescript --with-auth "express-ts-auth"

and then when compiling:

node ➜ /workspaces/express-ts-auth $ npm run build

> express-ts-auth@0.0.0 build
> ./node_modules/.bin/ts-node build.ts

INFO: src/routes/middleware.ts(32,20): error TS2571: Object is of type 'unknown'.

ERROR: Error: Command failed: tsc --build tsconfig.prod.json

node ➜ /workspaces/express-ts-auth $ node -v
v16.8.0
node ➜ /workspaces/express-ts-auth $ npm -v
7.21.0
node ➜ /workspaces/express-ts-auth $ 

also when I ran the test I encounter this error:

/workspaces/express-ts-auth/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:692
    return new TSError(diagnosticText, diagnosticCodes);
           ^
TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
spec/index.ts:20:29 - error TS2345: Argument of type 'null' is not assignable to parameter of type 'JasmineOptions'.

20 const jasmine = new Jasmine(null);

I'm using a container for the compilation.

[VittorioAccomazzi]

The error reported is the following :

and it can be fixed as follow:

    } catch (err:any) {
        return res.status(UNAUTHORIZED).json({
            error: err.message,
        });
    }

I'm not sure however if this is the correct fix.
The error in the tests can be corrected simply as follow:

// Init Jasmine
const jasmine = new Jasmine({});

the {} is currently missing.

[Leo Lui]

Or just remove .message

    } catch (err) {
        return res.status(UNAUTHORIZED).json({
            error: err,
        });
    }

[Jesus]

or check if it's an instance of Error

} catch(err: unknown) {
    if (err instanceof Error) {
        return res.status(UNAUTHORIZED).json({
            error: err.message
        })
    }
    return res.status(UNAUTHORIZED).json({
        error: err
    })
        
}

[Sean Maxwell]

fixed