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napi_throw_error function syntax in Node v8.2.1 and below is different from N-API V1 docs #778
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In Node v8.2.1 N-API docs syntax for napi_throw_error is:
NODE_EXTERN napi_status napi_throw_error(napi_env env, const char* msg);
Whereas in the latest Node v14 docs syntax is:
NAPI_EXTERN napi_status napi_throw_error(napi_env env, const char* code, const char* msg);
Node v14 docs mention that this method was introduced in N-API version 1 in Node v8.0.0.
code argument is missing in the Node v8.2.1.
When I compile my native add-on compiled using NAPI in Node v8.17.0 it fails to work in Node v8.2.1. And due to syntax differences, the module fails to compile on 8.2.1.
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NickNaso commentedon Jul 28, 2020
Hi @kanikashah90,
this issue is correlated to this other one #760, now we are updating the documentation in the core through this PR nodejs/node#34344.
The first version that matches version 1 is 8.6.0. N-API was introduced in version v.8.0.0 as experimental and version 1 continued to evolve until v8.7.0 and therefore the shape of the API in earlier versions is not truly version 1 (in hindsight we should have called it version 0). We recommend version 3 or later.
Hope that this help you.
gabrielschulhof commentedon Aug 3, 2020
The documentation fix to address this issue has landed in core at nodejs/node#34344.