Cannot convert object to primitive value when ember-cli-deploy-slack not installed but specified in deploy.js

[ip2k]

Hello,

I had been ripping small amounts of hair out over the past few days trying to get lightning deploys working again for our teams. I finally realized that I had forgotten to install the Slack plugin. The fix was simple (ember install ember-cli-deploy-slack) but the pain was real. Here's what this error looks like:

17:23 $ ember deploy:list stage
version: 1.13.15
Cannot convert object to primitive value
TypeError: Cannot convert object to primitive value
  at String (native)
  at Function.applyStyle (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/chalk/index.js:57:45)
  at Chalk.builder (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/chalk/index.js:40:21)
  at writeError (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/ui/write-error.js:19:24)
  at UI.writeError (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/lib/ui/index.js:92:3)
  at Class.module.exports.Task.extend._configuredPlugins (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli-deploy/lib/tasks/pipeline.js:115:15)
  at Class.module.exports.Task.extend.setup (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli-deploy/lib/tasks/pipeline.js:37:22)
  at Class.module.exports.Task.extend.run (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli-deploy/lib/tasks/pipeline.js:87:10)
  at /Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli-deploy/lib/commands/list.js:51:23
  at lib$rsvp$$internal$$tryCatch (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:1036:16)
  at lib$rsvp$$internal$$invokeCallback (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:1048:17)
  at /Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:331:11
  at lib$rsvp$asap$$flush (/Users/spetrow/projects/music_rights_ui/node_modules/ember-cli/node_modules/rsvp/dist/rsvp.js:1198:9)
  at process._tickCallback (node.js:355:11)

The fix:

17:23 $ ember install ember-cli-deploy-slack
version: 1.13.15
Installed packages for tooling via npm.
Installed addon package.
✔ ~/projects/music_rights_ui [staging|✚ 2…1]
17:24 $ ember deploy:list stage
version: 1.13.15
- Listing revisions for key: `music-rights-ui-stage:index`
-   revision
- ===========
- > 4837452
-   c76ef39

Package.json:

Versions:

✔ ~/projects/music_rights_ui [staging|✚ 2…1]
17:24 $ node --version
v0.12.7
✔ ~/projects/music_rights_ui [staging|✚ 2…1]
17:30 $ ember --version
version: 1.13.15
node: 0.12.7
npm: 2.14.10
os: darwin x64

This also happened on our Jenkins CI which runs:

npm install
bower install

ember deploy ${EMBER_ENVIRON} --verbose --activate

Even on latest stable node (v5.7.1 (npm v3.6.0) ) it happens when using this deploy.js:

var VALID_DEPLOY_TARGETS = [ //update these to match what you call your deployment targets
  'dev',
  'test',
  'stage',
  'prod'
];

module.exports = function(deployTarget) {
  var PROJECT_NAME = 'ember-cli-skeleton';  // TODO change me when settting up a new BOLT project

  var ENV = {
    build: {},
    redis: {
      // docs https://github.com/ember-cli-deploy/ember-cli-deploy-redis
      host: '[REDACTED]',
      allowOverwrite: true,
      keyPrefix: PROJECT_NAME + ':index'
    },
    s3: {
      accessKeyId: process.env.AWS_KEY,
      secretAccessKey: process.env.AWS_SECRET,
      bucket: '[REDACTED]',
      region: 'us-west-2',
      prefix: PROJECT_NAME
    },
    slack: {
      webhookURL: "[REDACTED]'',
      username: 'ember-cli-deploy via BOLT',
      iconEmoji: ':zap:'
    }
  };

  ENV["revision-data"] = {
    //filePattern: '**/*.{html,js,css,png,gif,ico,jpg,map,xml,txt,svg,swf,eot,ttf,woff,woff2}',
    type: 'git-commit'
  };

  if (VALID_DEPLOY_TARGETS.indexOf(deployTarget) === -1) {
    throw new Error('Invalid deployTarget ' + deployTarget);
  }

 if (deployTarget === 'dev') {
    ENV.build.environment = 'development';
    ENV.redis.keyPrefix = PROJECT_NAME + '-dev:index';
    ENV.s3.prefix = PROJECT_NAME + '-dev';
    ENV.plugins = ['build', 'display-revisions', 'gzip', 's3', 'redis', 'revision-data', 'slack']; // everything except manifest since manifest breaks when asset versioning is d$
  }

  if (deployTarget === 'test') {
    ENV.build.environment = 'test';
    ENV.redis.keyPrefix = PROJECT_NAME + '-test:index';
    ENV.s3.prefix = PROJECT_NAME + '-test';
    ENV.plugins = ['build', 'display-revisions', 'gzip', 's3', 'redis', 'revision-data', 'slack']; // everything except manifest since manifest breaks when asset versioning is d$
  }

  if (deployTarget === 'stage') {
    ENV.build.environment = 'staging';
    ENV.redis.keyPrefix = PROJECT_NAME + '-stage:index';
    ENV.s3.prefix = PROJECT_NAME + '-stage';
    ENV.plugins = ['build', 'display-revisions', 'gzip', 's3', 'redis', 'revision-data', 'slack']; // everything except manifest since manifest breaks when asset versioning is d$
  }

  if (deployTarget === 'prod') {
    ENV.build.environment = 'production';
    ENV.redis.keyPrefix = PROJECT_NAME;  // this is the same as we set in the config above (ENV.redis and ENV.s3), just here for clarity
    ENV.s3.prefix = PROJECT_NAME;
  }

  return ENV;
};

...and this package.json

{
  "name": "music-rights-ui",
  "version": "0.0.0",
  "description": "Small description for music-rights-ui goes here",
  "private": true,
  "directories": {
    "doc": "doc",
    "test": "tests"
  },
  "scripts": {
    "build": "ember build",
    "start": "ember server",
    "test": "ember test"
  },
  "repository": "",
  "engines": {
    "node": ">= 0.10.0"
  },
  "author": "",
  "license": "MIT",
  "devDependencies": {
    "basscss": "^6.1.6",
    "basscss-sass": "^1.0.2",
    "broccoli-asset-rev": "^2.2.0",
    "clone": "1.0.2",
    "ember-cli": "^1.13.15",
    "ember-cli-accounting": "1.0.0",
    "ember-cli-app-version": "^1.0.0",
    "ember-cli-babel": "^5.1.5",
    "ember-cli-bootstrap-sassy": "0.5.1",
    "ember-cli-coffeescript": "0.11.0",
    "ember-cli-content-security-policy": "0.4.0",
    "ember-cli-datepicker": "2.0.1",
    "ember-cli-dependency-checker": "^1.1.0",
    "ember-cli-deploy": "0.6.0",
    "ember-cli-deploy-lightning-pack": "0.5.0",
    "ember-cli-emblem": "0.3.1",
    "ember-cli-htmlbars": "^1.0.1",
    "ember-cli-htmlbars-inline-precompile": "^0.3.1",
    "ember-cli-ic-ajax": "0.2.1",
    "ember-cli-inject-live-reload": "^1.3.1",
    "ember-cli-moment-shim": "0.6.2",
    "ember-cli-pure": "1.0.1",
    "ember-cli-qunit": "^1.0.4",
    "ember-cli-release": "0.2.8",
    "ember-cli-sass": "^4.0.1",
    "ember-cli-selectize": "0.4.2",
    "ember-cli-sri": "^1.1.0",
    "ember-cli-uglify": "^1.2.0",
    "ember-data": "1.13.15",
    "ember-disable-proxy-controllers": "^1.0.1",
    "ember-export-application-global": "^1.0.4",
    "ember-faker": "1.1.0",
    "ember-i18n": "4.2.0",
    "ember-moment": "4.1.0",
    "ember-pikaday": "0.10.0",
    "ember-power-select": "0.8.4",
    "ember-simple-auth": "1.0.1",
    "handlebars-intl": "^1.1.1",
    "torii": "^0.6.1"
  },
  "dependencies": {
    "ember-radio-buttons": "^4.0.1"
  }
}

( note that ember-cli-deploy-slack is missing)

If nothing else, how can we make this error more useful (e.g. Missing Ember CLI Deploy plugin: slack) ? My apologies in advance if this should be opened against ember-cli-deploy directly instead.

Thanks!

[LevelbossMike]

This sounds like something we need handle in ember-cli-deploy directly. I'll look into that thx!

[marisawallace]

@LevelbossMike Yup-- would be great to handle this in ember-cli-deploy. I just ran into this same issue: "Cannot convert object to primitive value", but with a different plugin.

[yankeeinlondon]

I appear to be getting this too; I've now installed the slack plugin but still getting this message? What's the best way to work around this?

[LevelbossMike]

This happens for any addon that you have configured and that is not installed. Are you missing another configured plugin @ksnyde?