Google Protocol Buffers: c.toArray is not a function when setting a date value on my request

Question

I'm trying to build a create request for grpc-web. I've got my protocol buffers generated and I can successfully fetch information but I'm having trouble creating a request.

Eg.

const request = new PricingMethodRequest()
request.setCurrencyId(64)
request.setId(0)
request.setFrequency(1)
request.setFromDate({ nanos: 0, seconds: 1555064508 }) // <--- Crashes on this line
...

It seems like I keep getting TypeError: c.toArray is not a function when I try to set a date value. Or even a price value which is also an object.

How do I implement setting a date value, or any value that's expecting a JavaScript object?

Edit:

I've seen stuff online that I could do something like this:

const fromDateAny = new proto.google.protobuf.Any.fromJavaScript({ nanos: 0, seconds: 1555064508 })
request.setFromDate(fromDateAny)

But doing this gives me the error Cannot find name 'proto'.

Answer 1

It turns out I had to create a Timestamp type for the fromDate.

I did that by doing this:

import * as timestamp_pb from 'google-protobuf/google/protobuf/timestamp_pb'

...

const timestampFromDate = new timestamp_pb.Timestamp()
timestampFromDate.setSeconds(fromdate.seconds)
timestampFromDate.setNanos(fromDate.nanos)

request.setFromDate(timestampFromDate)