Strange instanceof error on anvil.users.get_user()

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What I’m trying to do:

Get the current user using anvil.users.get_user(). This generally works, but tonight logs showed an odd error. It might be connection related, but I figured I’d drop the log here in case it’s something the Anvil staff needs to look at.

: TypeError: Right-hand side of 'instanceof' is not an object
AppOfflineError: Connection to server failed (1006)
at anvil-services/anvil/users/__init__.py, line 83
called from anvil-services/anvil/users/__init__.py, line 83
called from MainForm, line 101

That line 101 is the call to get the current user.

2

Thanks for reporting.

Is it consistent?
We might need to get some more logging for that line.

could you wrap that line in in a try/except

from anvil.js import ExternalError

try:
    ....
except ExternalError as e:
    print("GET_USER EXTERNAL ERROR") # for searching logs
    print(e)
    print("STACK")
    print(e.original_error.stack)
    raise e
3

Not at all consistent. It was just the once, and was followed by a couple more AppOfflineErrors.

I’ll put in the try/except and let you know if it happens again.

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