AstraDB failed GET request

Question

I have been working on a TikTok clone app. So I created my database with Astra DB and set up two functions inside a function folder to test out if my posts are working. I am using netlify dev to test out the applications. But when I redirect http://localhost:8888/.netlify/functions/addData I get this failed get request error

Request from ::1: GET /.netlify/functions/addData
Error: Request Failed: [object Object]
Stack Trace: Request failed with status code 401
    at axiosRequest (D:\tiktokclone\node_modules\@astrajs\rest\src\rest.js:126:11)
    at processTicksAndRejections (internal/process/task_queues.js:93:5)
    at async AstraClient._request (D:\tiktokclone\node_modules\@astrajs\rest\src\rest.js:199:22)
    at async AstraClient.put (D:\tiktokclone\node_modules\@astrajs\rest\src\rest.js:263:12)
    at async AstraCollection._put (D:\tiktokclone\node_modules\@astrajs\collections\src\collections.js:69:22)
    at async Object.exports.handler (D:\tiktokclone\functions\addData.js:17:9)
Response with status 500 in 231 ms.

I quite don't understand what causes this. All the credentials inside my .env folder were correct.Here is the code I used to make the request

const { createClient } = require("@astrajs/collections");

const collection = "posts";

exports.handler = async function (event, context, callback) {


  const astraClient = await createClient({
    astraDatabaseId: process.env.ASTRA_DB_ID,
    astraDatabaseRegion: process.env.ASTRA_DB_REGION,
    applicationToken: process.env.ASTRA_DB_APPLICATION_TOKEN,
});

  console.log(astraClient)
  console.log(collection)
  console.log('Hello')

  const posts = astraClient
    .namespace(process.env.ASTRA_DB_KEYSPACE)
    .collection(collection);

  try {
    await posts.create("a post", {
      title: "my first post",
    });

    return {
      statusCode: 200,
    };
  } catch (e) {
    console.error(e);
    return {
      statusCode: 500,
      body: JSON.stringify(e),
    };
  }
};

Akhil Suresh · Answer 1 · 2021-09-10T03:20:07.010

I found a fix. For some reason, I was trying to call the API using an application token and it was giving me the 401 error. When I used username and password it worked.

 const astraClient = await createClient({
  astraDatabaseId: process.env.ASTRA_DB_ID,
  astraDatabaseRegion: process.env.ASTRA_DB_REGION,
  username: process.env.ASTRA_DB_USERNAME,
  password: process.env.ASTRA_DB_PASSWORD,

});

username is the client ID and password is the client secret. This error happened because of a slight confusion with the REST API and the Document API. Astra DB uses application token for authenticating document API while REST API uses client ID and Password.

AstraDB failed GET request

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