How to test custom node credentials with custom test function?

[lucianblignaut]

Hi! I am new to node development, I am building a programmatic style node that connects to an Oracle database. My credentials need to be tested with a custom function. I have declared a credentials object in the .node.ts file like this:

credentials: [
            {
                name: 'myConnection',
                required: true,
                testedBy: 'testConnection'
            }
        ],

I’ve declared this testConnection function in the node’s methods object like this:

methods = {
        listSearch: {
            searchTables
        },
                //the credential test function is declared here:
        credentialTest: {
            testConnection /** this function exported in and imported from another file */
        }
    };

My test function adheres to the ICredentialTestFunction interface by n8n, returning a promise of INodeCredentialTestResult

Yet I keep getting the ‘No testing function found for this credential’ error when testing the credentials.

Am I doing something wrong?

• n8n version: 0.210.0
• Default SQLite database
• Running n8n via Docker

[Jon]

Hey @lucianblignaut,

Welcome to the community

An Oracle node is going to be fun as it would typically require an oracle binary on the image to work but I like what you are trying to do

Normally we see that message when there is a typo somewhere, As a quick test it might be worth doing a copy of the connection test code into that method just to see if changes anything.