debugging fails with error

[Benjamin]

As mentioned here: https://github.com/NativeScript/nativescript-cli/issues/435

 I get exactly the same error:

When I try to debug app on a connected Android device using CLI: tns debug android --debug-brk
I keep getting "Internal error: TypeError: Cannot convert a Symbol value to a string" when trying to navigate to a page for instance. If I use tns run android the app is running just fine. I can't figure out what's the problem but it's impossible to debug.

 Any ideas what might be the cause?

 

[Benjamin]

Here's a screenshot of the error

[Erjan Gavalji]

Hi Benny,

Can you confirm your project is based on NativeScript 1.0? This glitch got corrected when building 1.0...

Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
Telerik

 

 

[Benjamin]

Erjan I have version 0.10.0

[Erjan Gavalji]

Hi Benny,

Would you please, upgrade your project to 1.0 then?

To my regret there is no proper way to upgrade to 1.0 other than moving your application files (excluding the tns_modules folder) to a newly created project.

Here is a one-liner to have this update though. To run it, navigate to the parent folder of your application and change MyApp to the name of your NativeScript@0.10.0 application:

appName=MyApp && mv $appName $appName\_OLD && tns create $appName && rm -rf $appName/app && cp -r $appName\_OLD/app $appName && (cd MyApp && tns platform add ios)

Note: A folder, named [YourAppName]_OLD will appear. I left it for backup purposes. You can safely delete it once you confirm the upgrade.

Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
Telerik

 

 

[Erjan Gavalji]

Hi Benny,

Edit, the command I sent contains a reference to a locally-installed nativescript command-line interface I used for the demo purposes. The correct command would be:

appName=MyApp && mv $appName $appName\_OLD && tns create $appName && rm -rf $appName/app && cp -r $appName\_OLD/app $appName && (cd MyApp && tns platform add ios)

Kind regards,
Erjan Gavalji
Telerik

 

 

[Benjamin]

Thanks Erjan for your detailed help!

 Everything works now :)