pbts cannot find jsdoc

protobuf.js version: 6.4.3
OS: windows 10 x64

pbts fails to run, because it cannot find jsdoc module. Maybe affected by #618?

repro step

1. greeter.proto is Greeter example.

2. Run node_modules\.bin\pbjs --target static-module --wrap commonjs greeter.proto >greeter.js. This step installs CLI dependency and runs as expected.

3. Run node_modules\.bin\pbts greeter.js > greeter.d.ts, fails to run.

error output

PS C:\Users\kang\Downloads\test> node_modules\.bin\pbts greeter.js > greeter.d.ts
module.js:471
    throw err;
    ^

Error: Cannot find module 'C:\Users\kang\Downloads\test\node_modules\protobufjs\node_modules\jsdoc\jsdoc.js'
    at Function.Module._resolveFilename (module.js:469:15)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:417:25)
    at Module.runMain (module.js:604:10)
    at run (bootstrap_node.js:394:7)
    at startup (bootstrap_node.js:149:9)
    at bootstrap_node.js:509:3
C:\Users\kang\Downloads\test\node_modules\protobufjs\cli\pbts.js:123
                    throw err;
                    ^

Error: code 1
    at Error (native)
    at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (C:\Users\kang\Downloads\test\node_modules\protobufjs\cli\pbts.js:119:27)
    at emitTwo (events.js:111:20)
    at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:191:7)
    at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:877:16)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:226:5)

There is no node_module directory under node_modules/protobufjs, while it exists under node_modules/protobufjs/cli.

[dcodeIO]

On first run of node_modules\.bin\pbjs it should install all required CLI dependencies, which are:

installing CLI dependencies: chalk@^1.1.3, glob@^7.1.1, jsdoc@^3.4.2, minimist@^1.2.0, tmp@0.0.31, uglify-js@^2.7.5

These are intentionally installed to node_modules\protobufjs\cli\node_modules to make sure that not all dev dependencies from the protobufjs package become installed (npm does this, unfortunately, when not having a package.json and a node_modules directory specifically for the CLI).

When running node_modules\.bin\pbts afterwards (this runs cli\pbts.js), it should be able to find the dependencies in cli\node_modules, but it obviously can't for some reason. Any ideas?

[dcodeIO]

Found it, hardcoded here.

https://github.com/dcodeIO/protobuf.js/blob/6.4.3/cli/pbts.js#L98

basedir should be __dirname. Fixed and ran again, pbts gives another error.

Cannot parse the config file C:\Users\kang\Downloads\test\node_modules\protobufjs\cli/jsdoc.types.json: Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory

Where is jsdoc.types.json? Is it in protobuf.js or in jsdoc?

[dcodeIO]

Yeah, because the config is still in the basedir. This required another lookup just for jsdoc. Try with the commit above!

[dcodeIO]

The latter does the same, just a bit simpler.

[dcodeIO]

On npm now as 6.4.4, thanks!