Simple-peer: Peer.send is a null property ?

[andreGarvin]

I justed tried out simple peer today and tried sending a message

document.getElementById('connect').addEventListener('click', () => {
    const recip = JSON.parse(document.getElementById('recip').value)
    Peer.signal(recip)
})

Peer.send(message)

I keep getting this error
bundle.js:15006 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'send' of null

[andreGarvin]

I checked the property and the Peer object instance is not null and the __proto also has the connect method on it, could this be bad prototype chaining the class or inheritance problem @feross

[xemasiv]

@andreGarvin how did you solve this?

[owenauch]

I'm also wondering how you solved this...

[t-mullen]

You cannot use peer.send() before the connect event.

Use peer.write() to take advantage of the buffer.

[owenauch]

That's not my issue @RationalCoding. I'm trying to send to a peer that I've already sent to before, but for some reason in a specific case it is failing with TypeError: Cannot read property 'send' of null. The object instance exists and seems normal when I log it. Do you have any ideas?

[owenauch]

For example, this code is failing:

if (p) {
    p.send(JSON.stringify(message));
}

[t-mullen]

Can you try logging peer.connected and peer.destroyed before that call to send?

[xemasiv]

In my case it was making the mistake of calling/setting the same peer.on(..) handlers more than once (took me a lot of re-reading my code), or having mistakenly replaced the peer2 instance variable with a new peer2 instance variable (in which case, this new instance isn't the one connected yet so it won't have a .channel property, which could lead to error when trying to call .send).

In my bad code, this mistake in replacing the instance variable happened during the peer1 ice trickles signals.

@owenauch if your peer1 has ._channel property and peer2 does not, this might also be the case.

[owenauch]

What is the difference between write and send?

[nazar-pc]

write is a part of streaming interface, can be buffered, while send sends data immediately and directly through data channel: https://github.com/feross/simple-peer#memory-usage

[andreGarvin]

I am soooooo sorry I did not see earlier @xemasiv