ep_comments_page > readOnlyManager.getIds is not a function

[bigbeka]

ep_comments_page is creating the following error:

Summary of this error also appears on the UI when a pad is opened (new or existing).

[2025-08-26T16:15:58.827] [INFO] settings - Loading [/^\/manifest.json$/] /manifest.json
[2025-08-26T16:16:00.857] [INFO] settings - Loading [/^\/manifest.json$/] /manifest.json
[2025-08-26T16:16:00.864] [INFO] settings - Loading [/^\/padbootstrap-[a-zA-Z0-9]+\.min\.js$/] /padbootstrap-PdREMEe2zJw.min.js
[2025-08-26T16:16:01.712] [INFO] access - [ENTER] pad:xxxx socket:xxxx IP:x.x.x.x authorID:xxx username:admin
[2025-08-26T16:16:03.477] [WARN] client - TypeError: readOnlyManager.getIds is not a function -- {
  errorId: 'ZqunsEBFJeXAxhHF2CVn',
  type: 'Unhandled Promise rejection',
  msg: 'TypeError: readOnlyManager.getIds is not a function',
  url: 'https://fqdn.com/p/xxxx',
  source: 'unknown',
  linenumber: -1,
  userAgent: 'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/605.1.15 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/18.6 Safari/605.1.15',
  stack: '@https://fqdn.com/padbootstrap-PdREMEe2zJw.min.js:74:401788\n' +
    'onack@https://fqdn.com/padbootstrap-PdREMEe2zJw.min.js:74:377596\n' +
    'onpacket@https://fqdn.com/padbootstrap-PdREMEe2zJw.min.js:74:376629\n' +
    '@https://fqdn.com/padbootstrap-PdREMEe2zJw.min.js:56:45414\n' +
    '@https://fqdn.com/padbootstrap-PdREMEe2zJw.min.js:74:384275'
}

Troubleshooting info:

Etherpad version

Version number
2.5.0
Latest available version
2.4.2
Git sha
7d077e1
Installed plugins

ep_images_extended
ep_markdown
ep_etherpad-lite
Installed parts

ep_etherpad-lite/openapi
ep_etherpad-lite/adminsettings
ep_etherpad-lite/adminplugins
ep_etherpad-lite/admin
ep_etherpad-lite/socketio
ep_etherpad-lite/restApi
ep_etherpad-lite/errorhandling
ep_etherpad-lite/importexport
ep_etherpad-lite/apicalls
ep_etherpad-lite/pwa
ep_etherpad-lite/padurlsanitize
ep_etherpad-lite/oauth2
ep_etherpad-lite/specialpages
ep_etherpad-lite/i18n
ep_etherpad-lite/stats
ep_etherpad-lite/static
ep_etherpad-lite/express
ep_etherpad-lite/Minify
ep_etherpad-lite/DB
ep_markdown/markdown
ep_images_extended/main
Installed hooks

clientVars

ep_images_extended
main
eejsBlock_body

ep_images_extended
main
getLineHTMLForExport

ep_images_extended
main
stylesForExport

ep_images_extended
main
expressConfigure

ep_images_extended
main
eejsBlock_editbarMenuLeft

ep_images_extended
main
loadSettings

ep_images_extended
main
collectContentPre

ep_images_extended
main
eejsBlock_styles

ep_images_extended
main
eejsBlock_timesliderStyles

ep_images_extended
main
ccRegisterBlockElements

ep_images_extended
main
expressCreateServer

ep_markdown
markdown
ep_etherpad-lite
specialpages
oauth2
padurlsanitize
pwa
importexport
errorhandling
restApi
socketio
admin
eejsBlock_exportColumn

ep_markdown
markdown
eejsBlock_mySettings

ep_markdown
markdown
import

ep_markdown
markdown
shutdown

ep_etherpad-lite
DB
Minify
express
stats
createServer

ep_etherpad-lite
express
restartServer

ep_etherpad-lite
express
expressPreSession

ep_etherpad-lite
static
i18n
specialpages
apicalls
openapi
socketio

ep_etherpad-lite
specialpages
socketio
adminplugins
adminsettings
expressCloseServer

ep_etherpad-lite
socketio
Client-side hooks
postToolbarInit

ep_images_extended
main
aceAttribsToClasses

ep_images_extended
main
postAceInit

ep_images_extended
main
ep_markdown
markdown
aceInitialized

ep_images_extended
main
aceCreateDomLine

ep_images_extended
main
aceAttribClasses

ep_images_extended
main
aceEditorCSS

ep_images_extended
main
ep_markdown
markdown
acePostWriteDomLineHTML

ep_images_extended
main
collectContentPre

ep_images_extended
main
collectContentPost

ep_images_extended
main
aceKeyEvent

ep_images_extended
main

[brknkfr]

Oh, I opened a bug report over here for the same error: ether/ep_comments_page#341

(Where should I actually open an issue now?)

I don't know javascript that well, but changing the https://github.com/ether/ether-plugins/blob/825ac5785553181c0f3c24da81e627a85d8791f1/ep_comments_page/index.js#L12C1-L12C77 from

const readOnlyManager = require('ep_etherpad-lite/node/db/ReadOnlyManager');

to

import readOnlyManager from 'ep_etherpad-lite/node/db/ReadOnlyManager';

seems to fix the problem. At least comments are working again.

[bigbeka]

Lets keep both, I am not sure which repo is active / correct for bug reports on etherpad plugins

[SamTV12345]

The current active repository is this one. The other exists for historical reasons.

[SamTV12345]

Which version of etherpad are you using? @brknkfr @bigbeka If you downloaded version 10 it is only compatible with the latest etherpad version.

[brknkfr]

I'm running etherpad-lite version 2.5.0 and now I just updated the ep_comments_page plugin from version 10.0.2 to version 10.0.4. Now it works for me.