Submit transaction in Node js Error 400

Question

I initiated a small node js project in which I installed the sdk module in order to communicate with horizon and try out some things, I am following this page from the docs.

However I getting an error. As far as I understand it comes from this line:

const transactionResult = await server.submitTransaction(transaction);

Here is the error log(the log is too long so I will just copy paste the first lines:

An error has occured:
{ Error: Request failed with status code 400
    at createError (/home/ubuntu/workspace/docker_stellar/myserver/myapp/node_modules/axios/lib/core/createError.js:16:15)
    at settle (/home/ubuntu/workspace/docker_stellar/myserver/myapp/node_modules/axios/lib/core/settle.js:18:12)
    at IncomingMessage.handleStreamEnd (/home/ubuntu/workspace/docker_stellar/myserver/myapp/node_modules/axios/lib/adapters/http.js:201:11)
    at emitNone (events.js:111:20)
    at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:208:7)
    at endReadableNT (streamreadable.js:1064:12)
    at combinedTickCallback (internal/process/nexttick.js:139:11)
    at process.tickCallback (internal/process/nexttick.js:181:9)
  config:
   { adapter: [Function: httpAdapter],
     transformRequest: { '0': [Function: transformRequest] },
     transformResponse: { '0': [Function: transformResponse] },
     timeout: 60000,
     xsrfCookieName: 'XSRF-TOKEN',
     xsrfHeaderName: 'X-XSRF-TOKEN',
     maxContentLength: -1,
     validateStatus: [Function: validateStatus],
     headers:
      { Accept: 'application/json, text/plain, /',
        'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
        'X-Client-Name': 'js-stellar-sdk',
        'X-Client-Version': '0.15.3',
        'User-Agent': 'axios/0.18.0',
        'Content-Length': 303 },
     method: 'post',
     url: 'https://horizon-testnet.stellar.org/transactions',
     data: 'tx=AAAAAMKEdM3SKNa%2BVS2IcCHh0hbJpC9eKFwi%2BzFTRdqph9JMAAAAZAAAQT0AAAADAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAFzBqDoAAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAABAAAAACzn9ykXx%2FXpZb2ztFecMWAVIjl3oeMoMzNlQuq2igQ                                                                                           9AAAAAAAAAADQsJmHAAAAAAAAAAGph9JMAAAAQH1pa8aof1o81B7aUJ8XPIKBU%2BDuw%2F9DZLQ7HoS3ueS2RkGlm%2BkUoAQFAi0jmdIsC841ojzyOmMZyjZBo%2BTSEws%3D' },
  request:
   ClientRequest {
     ...

Please if anyone has any idea why i'm having this error I would really appreciate the help.

Answer 1

Your transaction is a payment to the account GAWOP5... which does not exist. You have to create an account first before you can send payments to it. (In case you created that account more than a day ago, it's gone because testnet was reset yesterday.)

Error would have stated op_no_destination, you can get the relevant error response details like this:

try {
  await server.submitTransaction(...)
} catch (e) {
  console.log(e.response.data.extras);
}