DHT findProvs not working - Nodejs

[jamesrez]

• Version: { version: '0.8.0', repo: '10', commit: '81f944163f5a78ef15fdc23b2c488ba7f44af0be', 'interface-ipfs-core': '^0.147.0' }

• Platform: Node.js

• Subsystem: DHT

Severity: High

Description: cid.toBaseEncodedString is not a function

I'm following the findProvs example from the docs at https://github.com/ipfs/js-ipfs/blob/master/docs/core-api/DHT.md#example-1

const providers = ipfs.dht.findProvs('QmdPAhQRxrDKqkGPvQzBvjYe3kU8kiEEAd2J6ETEamKAD9')
for await (const provider of providers) {
  console.log(provider.id.toString())
}

When the code runs, my nodejs server crashes with this error:

/node_modules/libp2p-kad-dht/src/providers.js:202
      this._log('getProviders %s', cid.toBaseEncodedString())                                    ^
TypeError: cid.toBaseEncodedString is not a function

I wasn't sure if this was a personal problem until I found this and then I found this closed issue and it seems it was closed prematurely. So here it is again, can we solve it?

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[achingbrain]

The problem is the example is wrong - ipfs.dht.findProvs takes a CID not a string.

It's a quick fix to update the docs, would you like to open a PR that does so?

[jamesrez]

The problem is the example is wrong - ipfs.dht.findProvs takes a CID not a string.

It's a quick fix to update the docs, would you like to open a PR that does so?

No. It gives the same error even if you pass a CID. Not a quick fix

[lidel]

Continued in #3502