" Error: Unsupported DID method: 'ethr' " when requesting disclosure on meteor client side

[motez23]

When doing a simple disclosure request on the client side of my meteor app, I get the following error:

Uncaught (in promise) Error: Unsupported DID method: 'ethr'

using this code:

import { Connect } from 'uport-connect';

    uportCreateUportID(event){
        event.preventDefault();
        const uport = new Connect('Test DApp');
        
        const reqID = 'disclosureReq'
        uport.requestDisclosure()
        
        uport.onResponse('disclosureReq').then(res => {
            json = JSON.stringify(res.payload)
            console.log(json)
            
            })
    }

Any clue what this issue might be?

[JayWelsh]

Same here.

[zurfyx]

Angular here (specifically angular-cli); tested with angular versions 6 and 7.

After testing for a while it seems like the issue comes with uport-connect dependencies. Either if you set to 1.0.0-alpha-5 or 1.1.0-alpha.12 (which were working versions at the time), it breaks, probably because their dependencies. For example, uport-credentials always comes at the latest 1.1.x version.

Full error log:

core.js:1673 ERROR Error: Uncaught (in promise): Error: Unsupported DID method: 'ethr'
Error: Unsupported DID method: 'ethr'
    at resolver.js:42
    at new Promise (es6.promise.js:177)
    at resolve (resolver.js:36)
    at _callee3$ (JWT.js:274)
    at tryCatch (runtime.js:62)
    at Generator.invoke [as _invoke] (runtime.js:296)
    at Generator.prototype.(:4201/anonymous function) [as next] (http://localhost:4201/vendor.js:101796:21)
    at step (asyncToGenerator.js:17)
    at asyncToGenerator.js:35
    at new Promise (es6.promise.js:177)
    at resolvePromise (zone.js:831)
    at zone.js:741
    at rejected (main.js:136)
    at ZoneDelegate.push../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js.ZoneDelegate.invoke (zone.js:391)
    at Object.onInvoke (core.js:3820)
    at ZoneDelegate.push../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js.ZoneDelegate.invoke (zone.js:390)
    at Zone.push../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js.Zone.run (zone.js:150)
    at zone.js:889
    at ZoneDelegate.push../node_modules/zone.js/dist/zone.js.ZoneDelegate.invokeTask (zone.js:423)
    at Object.onInvokeTask (core.js:3811)

(resolver)

When executed with <script src="https://unpkg.com/uport-connect@1.1.0-alpha.12/dist/uport-connect.js"></script> it works alright, because it was transpiled with the appropriate dependencies.

Either way, dependencies might not be the only to blame for, since it seems to work with React.

[zurfyx]

UPDATE

Calling registerResolver() seems to solve the issue. For those who are having this issue as well, dependency does not need to be installed manually sinceuport-connect -> uport-credentials -> already carriesethr-did-resolver.

import registerResolver from 'ethr-did-resolver';

registerResolver();

The working version here.

[Akaryatrh]

IMO the issue comes from the package ethr-did-resolver on version 0.2.0. Previously uport-connect and uport-credentials were using the version ^0.1.0. And rolling back to uport-connect 1.1.0 can't fix the issue while It depends on uport-credentials ^1.1.0 that resolves to 1.1.3 (that is using ethr-did-resolver on version 0.2.0).

Issue can also come from package did-jwt that has been updated (from ^0.0.9 to ^0.1.0) on latest uport-credentials versions.

I succeeded to workaround the issue by forcing versions on yarn.lock file, but that's obviously not a recommended fix…