APIGEETool DeployNodeApp - apigee

Question

We are trying to use the apigeetool deploynodeapp utility to deploy a node.js app to apigee.
We think we are following the instructions properly, but are getting a "broken pipe" error every time we try.
The command we are running is...
apigeetool deploynodeapp -n sampleService -d . -m server.js -o ourOrgNameHere -e test -b sample -u ourUserName -p ourPassword
Obviously, ourOrgNameHere, ourUserName, and ourPassword are not the values we really used.
When we run that from the command line, there is a 20 second pause, followed by the output below...
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/local/bin/apigeetool", line 24, in <module>
deploynodeapp.run()
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ApigeePlatformTools/deploynodeapp.py", line 180, in run
revision = deploytools.importBundle(Organization, Name, tf.getvalue())
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ApigeePlatformTools/deploytools.py", line 115, in importBundle
resp = httptools.httpCall('POST', uri, hdrs, data)
File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/ApigeePlatformTools/httptools.py", line 24, in httpCall
conn.request(verb, uri, body, hdrs)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 973, in request
self._send_request(method, url, body, headers)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1007, in _send_request
self.endheaders(body)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 969, in endheaders
self._send_output(message_body)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 829, in _send_output
self.send(msg)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 805, in send
self.sock.sendall(data)
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 229, in sendall
v = self.send(data[count:])
File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/ssl.py", line 198, in send
v = self._sslobj.write(data)
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

You don't have to tell Apigee about the Node module dependencies. The apigeetool utility is supposed to (by default) resolve your Node.js dependencies automatically after your project is uploaded to Apigee Edge (as if running npm install on Edge itself).
Some users have found that if this fails for some reason, it works if you use the --upload-modules option like this:
apigeetool deploynodeapp --upload-modules
The upload-modules flag tells the tool to zip and upload all the modules from your system (rather than trying to update them on Edge). As long as your Node.js works locally, it should work when you deploy it. Try using --upload-modules to see if that works for you.