Error TS2339: Property 'replace' does not exist on type 'string | URL'.

[ramnathnayak-ibm]

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Environment details

• OS: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
• Node.js version: v20.15.0
• npm version: v10.7.0
• gcp-metadata version: v6.1.0

Steps to reproduce

1. run npm install
2. Getting error message: src/index.ts:184:23 - error TS2339: Property 'replace' does not exist on type 'string | URL'. Property 'replace' does not exist on type 'URL'.

184 url: options.url!.replace(getBaseUrl(), getBaseUrl(SECONDARY_HOST_ADDRESS)), ~~~~~~~ Found 1 error in src/index.ts:184

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[ramnathnayak-ibm]

The main branch has the correct code to handle this situation for replace function i.e. its converting the url to string first. url: options.url ?.toString() .replace(getBaseUrl(), getBaseUrl(SECONDARY_HOST_ADDRESS)), Line no 185 in gcp-metadata/src/index.ts (main)

[d-goog]

We will cut a release that will pull in this fix shortly:

• https://github.com/googleapis/gcp-metadata/pull/633