"length" is outside of buffer bounds

[phaistonian]

protobuf.js version: 7.4.0

It appears that the latest nodejs version (22.7.0) triggers this error:

RangeError [ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS]: "length" is outside of buffer bounds

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[likezero]

I have the same error

[markkkkas]

We are observing same issue

RangeError [ERR_BUFFER_OUT_OF_BOUNDS]: "length" is outside of buffer bounds
    at proto.utf8Write (node:internal/buffer:1066:13)
    at Op.writeStringBuffer [as fn] (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/protobufjs/src/writer_buffer.js:61:13)
    at BufferWriter.finish (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected]/node_modules/protobufjs/src/writer.js:453:14)
    at /app/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@grpc/proto-loader/build/src/index.js:152:109
    at Array.map (<anonymous>)
    at createPackageDefinition (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@grpc/proto-loader/build/src/index.js:152:39)
    at Object.fromJSON (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected]/node_modules/@grpc/proto-loader/build/src/index.js:205:12)
    at GrpcClient.loadProtoJSON (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/google-gax/build/src/grpc.js:228:51)
    at new TranslationServiceClient (/app/node_modules/.pnpm/@[email protected][email protected]/node_modules/@google-cloud/translate/build/src/v3/translation_service_client.js:146:38)
    at new GoogleTranslationService (/app/apps/dist/lib/google-translation.js:55:32)

As a fix, we decided to downgrade node version (22.4.0 works fine).

[cecilulysess]

Same issue, not necessary to [email protected]. The error thrown on my 7.3.3

[danielbankhead]

This sounds like an upstream Node issue:

• https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/54518
• https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/54524#issuecomment-2307438395

[nextlevelshit]

In case you are still experiencing that issues, try these LTS versions:

• v20.17.0 (april '26)
• v18.20.4 (april '25)

Everything above looks from my perspective broken and leads to these buffer errors.

[mbrevda]

Also fixed in the latest node (v22.8.0)

[temirrr]

@mbrevda thanks, upgrading to v22.8.0 worked for me

[Ngufuli]

Faced same "length" is outside of buffer bounds error even with node v23.3.0 Had to downgrade to node v20.18.1 and now it works perfectly fine.

[StiliyanKushev]

The issue still persists. Please take a look, this should be reopened. Works with v22.8.0 but not with v23.8.0