Hyperledger Composer : No business network has been specified for this connection

Question

I have installed hyperledger composer locally. But on localhost it gives error :

Error : Error trying to ping.

Error: No business network has been specified for this connection.

I am not able to add model and script file as well.

This is the errors showing in terminal

error: [Hyperledger-Composer] undefined:HLFConnection            :ping()                    Error: Error trying to ping. Error: No business network has been specified for this connection
at _checkRuntimeVersions.then.catch (/usr/local/lib/node_modules/composer-playground/node_modules/composer-connector-hlfv1/lib/hlfconnection.js:787:34)
at <anonymous>
at runMicrotasksCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:121:5)
at _combinedTickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:131:7)
at process._tickCallback (internal/process/next_tick.js:180:9) error: [Hyperledger-Composer] undefined:ConnectorServer          :Error: Error trying to pi

Answer 1

I think I solved this problem.

About the error

The error reason is No business network has been specified for this connection., this does not happen when you first time to run composer-playground, because that time, you truly do not have a network and you either do not have card too, so there is a modal pop up Let's blockchain.

This only happened when you stop/delete your business network net, or there is no business network running but you also have the business card linked to the network.

Solution

1. Follow the tutorial to create a new business network locally
2. restart your farbric tool by stopFabric.sh and startFabric.sh, (* this is not to start your business network but your fabric)
3. run your playground again composer-playground
4. probably you will also see the error again (error trying to ping), but no worry
5. find a button at top right corner which is folded My Business Networks
6. delete the card without connection or deploy a new network

This worked for me, hope it will work for you too. This kind of process design limitation, the card is still there even you delete your network or your are trying to start your playground even you did not start your network. This is why this error happened I think.

Addition, More about playground

Hyperledger Composer Playground (Playground from now on) uses your browser's local storage to simulate the blockchain network's state storage, which means you don't need to run a real validating peer network to use Playground.

Using browser-only mode, you can model and test the business network using a mock blockchain ledger that resides in your browser's local storage.

How to delete cache in browser Chrome

This probably can solve many errors.

In Chrome, for example, under Settings > Advanced > Content Settings > Cookies > All cookies and site data > localhost, click the trashcan icon to remove local storage. If you're using a different browser, follow the instructions specific to that browser, and delete all local storage.

References

• A very good IBM blockchain/ composer tutorial, just old, need to be pay attention to that some commands not working in the same way on new version of composer