candidate.toLowerCase is not a function

[christianherweg0807]

Hey. I followed the steps in the README of you dynamic-pick-extension.
I created a small template in the Template Editor:
--- apiVersion: scaffolder.backstage.io/v1beta3 kind: Template metadata: name: open-pr-with-business-catalog-entry-product spec: parameters: - title: What is your service about? properties: name: title: "Name" type: string ui:field: DynamicPickExtension ui:autofocus: true ui:options: external_data: https://dummyjson.com/products/categories
When clicking in the dropdown field I got an :

TypeError
candidate.toLowerCase is not a function

Any clue what I´ve missed?

[christianherweg0807]

My goal is to select GitHub repositorys per dropdown. I think I´ve to use your Backend Plugin for this, right?
Is your Plugin already migrated to the new Backend System?
In you Readme you have an example with :

form_data: github/teams

You you provide example code for this?

[nia-potato]

@nthings hi thanks for the plugin, i am also getting the same error, is there anything we are missing in the setup?

[siarheirdn]

same issue :( example is wrong
https://www.npmjs.com/package/@premise/plugin-dynamic-pick-extension?activeTab=readme

parameters:
    - category:
        title: Category
        type: string
        ui:field: DynamicPickExtension
        ui:options:
            # IMPORTANT: The endpoint needs to return a JSON array of strings.
            external_data: https://dummyjson.com/products/categories

restApi https://dummyjson.com/products/categories returns list of objects instead of strings.
not a bug?

[RFackrell]

Just adding to this.
We were using this to query an internal api that was processing some data and serving json arrays more securely.
It was working well a couple weeks ago but is now broken.

[nia-potato]

@RFackrell i am trying to do the same, for it hit a internal endpoint with auth, did you have to modify the plugin to use a existing token in the app-config and the fetch it via the backend to access the file? or was it just a json endpoint without auth hosted internally?

[christianherweg0807]

Could you please help or provide a working example?

regards
christian

[8BitSensei]

+1 on this issue, it looked like the perfect tool for the problem I'm trying to solve otherwise.