[Bug]: Cannot find package "mongodb-extjson"

[nixrajput]

🔎 Search Terms

mongodb-winston,typescript

The problem

"winston": "^3.11.0",
"winston-daily-rotate-file": "^4.7.1",
"winston-mongodb": "^5.1.1"

Getting below error when using with TypeScript:

Cannot find package "mongodb-extjson" from "/home/user/Workspace/nodejs-projects/express-api/node_modules/winston-mongodb/node_modules/mongodb/lib/core/utils.js"

What version of Winston presents the issue?

v3.11.0

What version of Node are you using?

v20.x

If this worked in a previous version of Winston, which was it?

No response

Minimum Working Example

import {
  MongoDBTransportInstance,
  MongoDBConnectionOptions,
} from "winston-mongodb";
import { createLogger, format, transports } from "winston";

const {
  MongoDB,
}: { MongoDB: MongoDBTransportInstance } = require("winston-mongodb");

const mongoTransport = new MongoDB({
  db: LocalConfig.getConfig().MONGO_URI!,
  dbName: LocalConfig.getConfig().DB_NAME!,
  storeHost: true,
  collection: "logs",
  options: {
    useNewUrlParser: true,
    useCreateIndex: true,
    useUnifiedTopology: true,
  },
  format: format.combine(
    format.timestamp(),
    format.json()
    // errorStackFormat(),
    // format.printf(({ timestamp, level, message }) => {
    //   return `[${timestamp}] ${level}: ${message}`;
    // })
  ),
} as MongoDBConnectionOptions);

Additional information

No response

[dror-g]

Same. you can edit the file /node_modules/winston-mongodb/node_modules/mongodb/lib/core/utils.js, and comment out the section that checks if the native module is available:

  let EJSON = requireOptional('mongodb-extjson');
//  if (!EJSON) {
//    EJSON = {
//      parse: noEJSONError,
//     deserialize: noEJSONError,
//      serialize: noEJSONError,
//      stringify: noEJSONError,
//      setBSONModule: noEJSONError,
//      BSON: noEJSONError
//    };
//  }

  return EJSON;
}

This seemed to work for me. I think the reason is the mongodb package used by Winston is very outdated, as well as the require-optional module that gets this test wrong.

[dror-g]

Or, maybe better as no code change in node_modules required -
Add these lines to your package.json dependencies section:

"dependencies": {
    ...
    "mongodb-extjson": "npm:noop2",
    "snappy": "^7.1.1",
    "bson-ext": "npm:noop2" 
    }

worked for me, no issues (yet..)