Error: Argument error: username and password are required unless use_unauthenticated is set

Question

I'm attempting to use STT service with the iam apikey.

If I set the IAM credentials like the documentation shows (below) I get the error: username and password are required unless use_unauthenticated is set

let speech_to_text = new SpeechToTextV1({
  iam_apikey: STT_credentials.apikey,
  iam_url: STT_credentials.url
});

If I pass the use_anauthenticated value I get a 401 response:

let speech_to_text = new SpeechToTextV1({
  iam_apikey: STT_credentials.apikey,
  iam_url: STT_credentials.url,
  use_unauthenticated: true
});

response:

Error! Code:401 Type: undefined Message: Unauthorized

If I look at the file in the error:

/Users/jward/Desktop/speech_lab_assets/STT/node_mod
ules/watson-developer-cloud/lib/base_service.js:73:13

I see that it will throw an error if there is no username/password param:

if (!options.use_unauthenticated) {
    if (!options.username || !options.password) {
      throw new Error('Argument error: username and password are required unless use_unauthenticated is set');
    }

How am I supposed to use IAM if the username/password is a requirement of the watson-developer-cloud tooling? Is this an issue with the node module or am I doing something wrong?

I am using watson-developer-cloud@2.42.0

Answer 1

The endpoint is specified as url and not iam_url as you have it.

This works for me -

const  STTV1 = require('watson-developer-cloud/speech-to-text/v1');

let sttService = new STTV1({
  url: url,
  iam_apikey = apikey
});