The name 'StringObject' does not exist in the current context - .NET Client

[christiannagel]

Using the kiota CLI, source code was created which includes StringObject.

This results in this compiler error:

The name 'StringObject' does not exist in the current context

I couldn't find a NuGet package to reference to include this class.

CLI command:

kiota generate -d http://localhost:9400/swagger/v1/swagger.json -l csharp -o .

This is the generated code including StringObject:

public async Task<CreateGameResponse?> PostAsync(CreateGameRequest body, Action<GamesRequestBuilderPostRequestConfiguration>? requestConfiguration = default, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default) {
    _ = body ?? throw new ArgumentNullException(nameof(body));
    var requestInfo = ToPostRequestInformation(body, requestConfiguration);
    var errorMapping = new Dictionary<string, ParsableFactory<IParsable>> {
        {"400", StringObject.CreateFromDiscriminatorValue},
    };
    return await RequestAdapter.SendAsync<CreateGameResponse>(requestInfo, CreateGameResponse.CreateFromDiscriminatorValue, errorMapping, cancellationToken);
}

I have these NuGet packages referenced:

  <ItemGroup>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions" Version="1.1.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Kiota.Authentication.Azure" Version="1.0.2" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Kiota.Cli.Commons" Version="0.2.1-preview.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Kiota.Http.HttpClientLibrary" Version="1.0.2" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Kiota.Serialization.Form" Version="1.0.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Kiota.Serialization.Json" Version="1.0.6" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.Kiota.Serialization.Text" Version="1.0.1" />
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.OpenApi.Kiota.ApiDescription.Client" Version="0.5.0-preview2">
      <PrivateAssets>all</PrivateAssets>
      <IncludeAssets>runtime; build; native; contentfiles; analyzers; buildtransitive</IncludeAssets>
    </PackageReference>
    <PackageReference Include="Microsoft.OpenApi.Kiota.Builder" Version="1.2.1" />
  </ItemGroup>

I'm using version 1.2.1 with the dotnet tool microsoft.openapi.kiota

Copilot says, the StringObject class is part of Microsoft.Kiota.Abstractions. I couldn't find it in this and the abstractions repo.

[andrueastman]

Thanks for raising this @christiannagel,

Any chance you can share a sample of the input OpenApi reference to help replicate the scenario?

[christiannagel]

I made the repo available, @andrueastman:

https://github.com/CodebreakerApp/thrive2023/tree/main/monitoring/Codebreaker.GameAPIs

For an easy access of the OpenAPI defintion, I added swagger.json:

https://github.com/CodebreakerApp/thrive2023/blob/main/monitoring/Codebreaker.GameAPIs/swagger.json

[yoyos]

same problem here, do you have a quick fix to build successfully ?

[andrueastman]

This is related/dependent on the #2435.

Kiota has the current limitation of expecting error responses to be classes/objects. For now, we've authored #2706 to fix the compilation error and unblock making of the requests and the handling of primitive error responses will be tracked via #2435

same problem here, do you have a quick fix to build successfully ?

@yoyos You can build build the main branch once #2706 is merged. Alternatively, strip the string error responses from the reference doc.