searchPaths.filter is not a function, when unlinking

[pvinis]

Description

i tried unlinking a library and i got an error

react-native unlink react-native-video
Scanning 870 folders for symlinks in /Users/pvinis/Source/mycujoo/mycujoo-mobile/node_modules (9ms)
rnpm-install info Unlinking react-native-video ios dependency
rnpm-install ERR! It seems something went wrong while unlinking. Error: searchPaths.filter is not a function

searchPaths.filter is not a function

Reproduction Steps and Sample Code

try to link and then unlink a library i guess.

Solution

no idea.

Additional Information

• React Native version: 0.42.3
• Platform: iOS
• Development Operating System: MacOS
• Dev tools: Xcode

[minhtc]

my quick fix:
file: /node_modules/react-native/node_modules/xcode/lib/pbxProject.js
line 1146:
change the condition from if(searchPaths) to if (searchPaths && searchPaths !== '"$(inherited)"')

[Monte9]

@minhtc this worked for me. Thank you!

[mienaikoe]

@minhtc I didn't find this js file. Instead, I made all of the framework, header, and library search paths in ios/<projectName>.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj a list. Some of them were individual strings, but you can list them by surrounding the one string with (parentheses)

[rocwong-cn]

+1

[qruzz]

@mienaikoe Could you expand on that?
I am looking at that file, but have no idea what I am looking for?

[mienaikoe]

hey @qruzz . It's been a while, but I think I remember what I was talking about:

Somewhere near the bottom of the file, you'll have your build configurations. In here there are several build settings, including HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS, FRAMEWORK_SEARCH_PATHS, and LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS. react-native unlink seems to be expecting these to be lists in all cases, but many projects just have one value as in

HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = "$(inherited)"

Instead, as a workaround, you should make them into a list:

HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = (
	"$(inherited)",
);

[qruzz]

@mienaikoe Thank you very much for the reply !
Unfortunately, that did not solve the problem for me either ..
All my HEADER_SERCH_PATHS were lists already, but had to change all the LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATHS .. There were however no FRAMEWORK_SEARCH_PATHS in my project, but instead a LD_RUNPATH_SEARCH_PATHS instead, that I also changed into lists.

[kelset]

Keep happening to me as well (0.46.4), anyone found a proper fix for it?

[ugiacoman]

@kelset Were you able to find a solution? Happening to me as well.

[ugiacoman]

@minhtc solution worked, but the file was at /node_modules/xcode/lib/pbxProject.js react-native 0.47.1

[kelset]

@ugiacoman sorry, not being able to fix it :/ Maybe with 0.48? I'll try to upgrade to latest once it comes out, let's see what happens then

[alexlevy0]

Same issue with react-native 0.49.1

react-native unlink lottie-ios
Scanning folders for symlinks in /Users/[...]/node_modules (18ms)
rnpm-install info Unlinking lottie-ios ios dependency
rnpm-install ERR! It seems something went wrong while unlinking. Error: searchPaths.filter is not a function

searchPaths.filter is not a function

[JperF]

I change the follow bit of code in the /node_modules/xcode/lib/pbxProject.js

if (searchPaths) {
            var matches = searchPaths.filter(function(p) {
                return p.indexOf(new_path) > -1;
            });
            matches.forEach(function(m) {
                var idx = searchPaths.indexOf(m);
                searchPaths.splice(idx, 1);
            });
        }

to

if (searchPaths) {
            if(typeof searchPaths === 'string'){
                searchPaths = [searchPaths]
            }
            var matches = searchPaths.filter(function(p) {
                return p.indexOf(new_path) > -1;
            });
            matches.forEach(function(m) {
                var idx = searchPaths.indexOf(m);
                searchPaths.splice(idx, 1);
            });
        }

and it seemed to have fixed the issue as well.