ca-certs.json not found in data directory

[udf2457]

My apologies if I'm being stupid here but.....

I was getting this error in my code. So I simplified as much as possible:

<?php
use ParagonIE\Certainty\RemoteFetch;
require '../../vendor/autoload.php';
mkdir("/tmp/aaa");
$fetcher = new RemoteFetch("/tmp/aaa");
var_dump($fetcher->getLatestBundle());

This still yields the same:

Fatal error: Uncaught ParagonIE\Certainty\Exception\FilesystemException: ca-certs.json not found in data directory. in /blah/vendor/paragonie/certainty/src/Fetch.php:116
Stack trace:
#0 /blah/vendor/paragonie/certainty/src/Fetch.php(63): ParagonIE\Certainty\Fetch->listBundles()
#1 /blah/vendor/paragonie/certainty/src/Certainty.php(32): ParagonIE\Certainty\Fetch->getLatestBundle()
#2 /blah/vendor/paragonie/certainty/src/Validator.php(104): ParagonIE\Certainty\Certainty::getGuzzleClient()
#3 /blah/vendor/paragonie/certainty/src/Fetch.php(78): ParagonIE\Certainty\Validator::checkChronicleHash(Object(ParagonIE\Certainty\Bundle))
#4 /blah/local/foobar/TESTTEST.php(10): ParagonIE\Certainty\Fetch->getLatestBundle()
#5 {main}
  thrown in /blah/vendor/paragonie/certainty/src/Fetch.php on line 116

But ....

$ ls -la /tmp/aaa/
total 1456
drwxrwxr-x.  2 foobar   foobar     4096 Apr  9 23:44 .
drwxrwxrwt. 17 root root   8192 Apr  9 23:44 ..
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar   263596 Apr  9 23:44 cacert-2016-11-02.pem
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar   261889 Apr  9 23:44 cacert-2017-01-18.pem
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar   256008 Apr  9 23:44 cacert-2017-06-07.pem
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar   236061 Apr  9 23:44 cacert-2017-09-20.pem
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar   223903 Apr  9 23:44 cacert-2018-01-17.pem
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar   215556 Apr  9 23:44 cacert-2018-03-07.pem
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar       25 Apr  9 23:44 ca-certs.cache
-rw-rw-r--.  1 foobar   foobar     2205 Apr  9 23:44 ca-certs.json

Bearing in mind /tmp/aaa didn't even exist before I executed the PHP !

[udf2457]

I should perhaps comment that the data dir under vendor is empty. So I suspect certainty might have something hardcoded somewhere if its still looking for stuff where it shouldn't be ?

[paragonie-scott]

Fetch is trying to use the existing bundles, so that the connection to Github is validated.

[paragonie-scott]

Pull dev-master. Is it fixed?

[udf2457]

So does that not leave us in a Catch 22 scenario in terms of moving the writable location ?

[paragonie-scott]

As of (presumably) v2.0.1? Nope.

[paragonie-scott]

I'm having difficulty reproducing the issue you're encountering, but if Fetch fails it will now properly just download the stuff and then do Ed25519/Chronicle verification as expected. Please let me know if the dev-master code fixes the problem you're experiencing so I can tag v2.0.1.

[udf2457]

Yeah, that fixes it. Thanks!