How to deby 'Cannot read property 'name' of undefined' error in ADF?

javier 921

While trying to publish my changes in ADF I get the following message:

Error while publishing: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined

I am having a hard time trying to identify the source of the problem since I do not have a variable or env param named 'name'

Would much appreciate any help regarding on how to debug this error.

Thanks

javier 921

the browser console throws this error:

main.452bdcecf7bf0b79761d.js:2 ERROR Error: Uncaught (in promise): TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
TypeError: Cannot read property 'name' of undefined
    at Function.t.validateActivityOccurs (main.452bdcecf7bf0b79761d.js:2)
    ...

MartinJaffer-MSFT 26,036 Reputation points

2020-12-21T19:19:52.37+00:00

Hello @javier and thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Could you please clarify whether you see this message only in the browser console, or whether it also appears in the graphical interface?
Also, is this blocking the publish, or does it publish despite the message?

Thank you for your patience,
Martin
Vibhor Sharma 1 Reputation point

2020-12-28T03:58:55.74+00:00

Hello @MartinJaffer-MSFT ,

I am facing same error. I looks like publish button javascript code is failing on git integrated data factory.
I appears in graphical interface as "Error while publishing: Cannot set property 'name' of undefined".

Yes , it is blocking publish.

Thanks in anticipation.

Regards,
Vibhor
javier 921 Reputation points

2020-12-28T20:22:16.087+00:00

yes, it blocks publishing
javier 921 Reputation points

2020-12-28T20:23:27.94+00:00

I was unable to find the source of the error so in order to move on i rolled back and started over. Only then I managed to publish successfully
Vibhor Sharma 1 Reputation point

2020-12-29T08:21:54.227+00:00

Leading pathetic life for developers as it rollbacks to last published state.
Please suggest as its recurring for our data factory. Urgently.

2 answers

Nasreen Akter 10,756 Reputation points

2020-12-28T14:55:09.46+00:00

Hi @javier ,

I am thinking, probably the issue is not with the pipeline parameters or variables. Wondering , if you have Rule-Based Mapping in any of your DataFlow activity. In the rule-based mapping, you can define columns "name", "type", "stream", "origin", "position" etc. Would you please check the expression (if you have any), there is possibility that it could caused this error. Thanks!

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javier 921 Reputation points

2020-12-28T20:24:17.647+00:00

hi @Nasreen Akter , no, I am afraid that that was not the case.

Monica Bodhuluru 1 Reputation point

2021-03-19T07:47:06.497+00:00

Could you please let me know how to resolve this issue. I have used column pattern in windows transformation and applied rule based mapping.
Each column that matches : type =='double'
Enter column name expression : $$
Expression : avg($$)

Can you please help me to resolve this issue ?
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MartinJaffer-MSFT 26,036 Reputation points

2021-01-05T21:11:32.74+00:00

anonymous userSharma-6930
@javier

I have reached out internally for assistance. This looks similar to (but not the same as) another issue previously resolved.
In the other issue, the cause was a bug in validating the pipeline. The pipeline had an activity where the dataset / linked service had not been chosen.
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Ruud Suithoff 6 Reputation points

2022-05-24T17:12:52.843+00:00

Hi @MartinJaffer-MSFT ,

We encounter the same issue. While we try to publish from our collaboration branch, we received the error
"Cannot read property of undefined (reading filter) ". So following this topic we tried to find some empty references,
but there we none.
So we literally dropped everything one-by-one, and even with an empty workspace, we still have the same issue.

Could you please help us?

Best regards,

Gayatri Shrikanth 1 Reputation point

2022-05-24T17:49:15.55+00:00

We are facing the exact same issue too as RuudSuithoff-2329, since today evening. We deleted all components and still we are unable to publish. It worked for a brief while (publishing successful) when we changed the collaboration to another branch, but the error is back again. Any help in this regard is highly appreciated
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