sendFile fails with TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null

[RitwikChatterjee]

I am trying to use azure-function-express in my code.

Here is my piece of code in index.js:

const createHandler = require("azure-function-express").createHandler;
const express = require("express");
var myRouter = require('./routes/myrouter.js');
const app = express();
app.use("/api/files", myRouter);
 
module.exports = createHandler(app);

Here is my myrouter.js:

var express = require('express');
var router = express.Router();
router.get('/', function (req, res) {
  console.log('Sending file');
  var options = {
    root: __dirname + '/public/'
  };

  var fileName = 'package.zip';
  res.sendFile(fileName, options, function (err) {
    if (err) {
      console.log(err);
      next(err);
    } else {
      console.log('Sent:', fileName);
    }
  });
})

module.exports = router

When I call this API, it fails at the res.sendFile(fileName,....) step with the following error. Note: It doesn't even reach the if(err) step.

Sending file
Worker ce5e00ff-a507-4910-92cc-8ce08323c082 uncaught exception:  TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null
Worker ce5e00ff-a507-4910-92cc-8ce08323c082 exited with code 1
    at ServerResponse._send (_http_outgoing.js:232:33)
    at write_ (_http_outgoing.js:667:15)
    at ServerResponse.write (_http_outgoing.js:617:10)
    at ReadStream.ondata (_stream_readable.js:639:20)
    at emitOne (events.js:116:13)
    at ReadStream.emit (events.js:211:7)
    at addChunk (_stream_readable.js:263:12)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:250:11)
    at ReadStream.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:208:10)
    at fs.read (fs.js:2051:12)
Debugger attached.
Waiting for the debugger to disconnect...
Language Worker Process exited.
node exited with code 1
 Worker ce5e00ff-a507-4910-92cc-8ce08323c082 uncaught exception:  TypeError: Cannot read property 'length' of null.

The problem goes away, if I change the index.js to just use express.js (without any other changes) Updated index.js which is working:

const createHandler = require("azure-function-express").createHandler;
const express = require("express");
var myRouter = require('./routes/myrouter.js');
const app = express();
app.use("/api/files", myRouter);

app.listen(3030, ()=> console.log("Listening on port: ", 3030));

Can you please look into the issue

[lworkman]

Looks like it's the same error as #21