Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
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Description
So... it would seem that the code tries to slurp the whole file into memory in one go, and convert it to one big string. That's not a good idea....
```
Error: Cannot create a string longer than 0x1fffffe8 characters
at Buffer.toString (node:buffer:784:17)
at convert (C:\Users\chris\GITW\nsldist\client\node_modules\csv2geojson\csv2geojson:23:34)
at ConcatStream. (C:\Users\chris\GITW\nsldist\client\node_modules\concat-stream\index.js:36:43)
at ConcatStream.emit (node:events:402:35)
at finishMaybe (C:\Users\chris\GITW\nsldist\client\node_modules\readable-stream\lib\_stream_writable.js:475:14)
at endWritable (C:\Users\chris\GITW\nsldist\client\node_modules\readable-stream\lib\_stream_writable.js:485:3)
at ConcatStream.Writable.end (C:\Users\chris\GITW\nsldist\client\node_modules\readable-stream\lib\_stream_writable.js:455:41)
at ReadStream.onend (node:internal/streams/readable:693:10)
at Object.onceWrapper (node:events:509:28)
at ReadStream.emit (node:events:390:28) {
code: 'ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG'
}```
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Research direction
Start at the convert call shown at node_modules/csv2geojson:23:34 and inspect how concat-stream supplies the file contents. Reproduce the failure with an input exceeding Node's string limit; done means oversized CSV files no longer fail with ERR_STRING_TOO_LONG.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript, node.js
- Domain
- data
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100