TypeError: Cannot read property 'ns' of null about grpcc HOT 4 OPEN

Same thing happens to me. Would be good to be able to run this tool with absolute file names

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Have you tried using the --directory option? We added that for situations like this, when you want to specify a working directory outside of your current one. Please re-open if it's still an issue - thanks!

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@njpatel no, --directory doesn't work for me. I have the following setup:

# in ~/.zshrc
$GOPATH=/Users/adam/golang

# in /Users/adam/golang/src/github.com/myrepo/protobuf/myapp/service/myapp_service.proto
import "myapp/service/credentials/credentials.proto";

If I try to use grpcc with the absolute path to the proto, I get:

grpcc -i --proto $GOPATH/src/github.com/myrepo/protobuf/myapp/service/myapp_service.proto --address 127.0.0.1:8020

TypeError: Cannot read property 'ns' of null

If I try to cd to the directory first and then use the relative path, I get:

cd $GOPATH/src; grpcc -i --proto ./github.com/myrepo/protobuf/myapp/service/myapp_service.proto --address 127.0.0.1:8020

Error: failed to import '/Users/adam/golang/src/myapp/service/credentials/credentials.proto' in
  './github.com/myrepo/protobuf/myapp/service/myapp_service.proto': file not found

Which I guess is happening because of the relative path used in import "myapp/service/credentials/credentials.proto", and it's looking for /Users/adam/golang/src/myapp/service/credentials/credentials.proto instead of the correct path which is /Users/adam/golang/src/github.com/myrepo/protobuf/myapp/service/credentials/credentials.proto (the previous path is missing the github.com/myrepo/protobuf)

If I try using --directory, I get:

grpcc -i --proto ./github.com/myrepo/protobuf/myapp/service/myapp_service.proto --address 127.0.0.1:8020 --directory $GOPATH/src/github.com/myrepo/protobuf

TypeError: Cannot read property 'ns' of null

I've tried nearly every permutation of --directory value that I can think of, and they all result in the TypeError message.

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Bah, that's my fault, the usage of --directory isn't very clear. You can avoid the type error by dropping the full path to your proto (as the look up to your proto is relative to the directory):

grpcc -i --proto ./myapp/service/myapp_service.proto --address 127.0.0.1:8020 --directory $GOPATH/src/github.com/myrepo/protobuf

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