Issue scheduling an internal action from a helper function

I'm using Convex version 1.26.1. In one file I have an internal action defined like this:

import { internalAction } from "../../_generated/server";
import { v } from "convex/values";

export const sendInternalEmail = internalAction({
  args: {
    emailTo: v.union(v.string(), v.array(v.string())),
    subject: v.string(),
    message: v.string(),
    cc: v.optional(v.union(v.string(), v.array(v.string())))
  },
  handler: async (_, args) => {
    // logic here
  }
})

import { internalAction } from "../../_generated/server";
import { v } from "convex/values";

export const sendInternalEmail = internalAction({
  args: {
    emailTo: v.union(v.string(), v.array(v.string())),
    subject: v.string(),
    message: v.string(),
    cc: v.optional(v.union(v.string(), v.array(v.string())))
  },
  handler: async (_, args) => {
    // logic here
  }
})

In a different file, I have a helper function where I'm passing ctx (typed as GenericActionCtx<any>). In that function I'm trying to schedule the above action like this:

await ctx.scheduler.runAfter(0, internal.it.internalEmail.sendInternalEmail, {
  emailTo: "email@example.com",
  subject: "subject",
  message: "message"
})

await ctx.scheduler.runAfter(0, internal.it.internalEmail.sendInternalEmail, {
  emailTo: "email@example.com",
  subject: "subject",
  message: "message"
})

The internal.it.internalEmail.sendInternalEmail function reference is underlined, and hovering displays this error:

Type '{ sendInternalEmail: FunctionReference<"action", "internal", { cc?: string | string[] | undefined; message: string; emailTo: string | string[]; subject: string; }, null, string | undefined>; }' is missing the following properties from type 'SchedulableFunctionReference': _type, _visibility, _args, _returnType, _componentPath

Type '{ sendInternalEmail: FunctionReference<"action", "internal", { cc?: string | string[] | undefined; message: string; emailTo: string | string[]; subject: string; }, null, string | undefined>; }' is missing the following properties from type 'SchedulableFunctionReference': _type, _visibility, _args, _returnType, _componentPath

I can't see any error in this setup. Any idea why it's claiming that there's a type mismatch? For reference, here's what the kapa.ai bot said about this. Aside from the things it mentioned that were clearly not issues (e.g. passing an object instead of a function reference), I did try using ActionCtx instead of GenericActionCtx<any>, but the error was the same.

7 Replies

Convex Bot•2w ago

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erquhart•2w ago

Pass your DataModel to GenericActionCtx instead of any Hmm although GenericActionCtx<any> would still have scheduler

Clever TaglineOP•2w ago

Yeah, it's not saying that the scheduler part is the issue. It's complaining about the internal action passed.

erquhart•2w ago

yeah, it's saying it's an object with a key for the function you sure the file isn't named sendInternalEmail?

Clever TaglineOP•2w ago

Doh! That's it. I hadn't completed the reference to point to the function. It was pointed to the file. Very tempted to rename one of the two 😂

erquhart•2w ago

hahaha or just make the function the default export ~~and rename the file index.ts~~ nope not that lol

Clever TaglineOP•2w ago

True. I don't think that I'll have any other exports from that file

Issue scheduling an internal action from a helper function

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