Google Cloud Tasks: Location 'europe-west1' is not a valid location

Question

I am trying to run a Google Cloud Tasks task using a Cloud Function, but I'm hitting an error where any region I try to use is wrong.

The code is basic. All is well until it stops because of the following error:

Error: {"code":3,"message":"Location 'europe-west1' is not a valid location. Use ListLocations to list valid locations.","details":[]}

If I attempt to use, for example, us-central1, it will report:

Error: {"code":3,"message":"Location must equal europe-west1 because the App Engine app that is associated with this project is located in europe-west1","details":[]}

I am using the Google Cloud Tasks API with Node.js for creating a new Task:

const client = new CloudTasksClient({ fallback: true }); 
const parent = client.queuePath(PROJECT, 'europe-west1', QUEUE);

A full example can be found here: https://github.com/googleapis/nodejs-tasks/blob/master/samples/createHttpTaskWithToken.js

The URL called is: ""https://cloudtasks.googleapis.com:443/$rpc/google.cloud.tasks.v2beta3.CloudTasks/CreateTask"

If I run the locations list command, this is the output:

$ gcloud tasks locations list
europe-west1    projects/[project-id]/locations/europe-west1

Edit: Using the REST API (https://cloud.google.com/tasks/docs/reference/rest/v2beta3/projects.locations.queues.tasks/create) with the same configuration works. It may be a bug in the client?

I am really not sure what is wrong with my setup.

Not sure what information would be helpful to debug this, so apologies in advance if there's not enough information.

What is the command that generates the error message? If the command requiring a Region or a Zone? — John Hanley
Hi John, I am using the Google Cloud Tasks API for creating a new Task: ``` const client = new CloudTasksClient({ fallback: true }); const parent = client.queuePath(PROJECT, 'europe-west1', QUEUE); ``` The URL called is :"cloudtasks.googleapis.com:443/$rpc/… From what I can see, the argument name is "location". If I run the locations list command, this is the output: ▶ gcloud tasks locations list NAME FULL_NAME europe-west1 projects/[project-id]/locations/europe-west1 — user1886812
Do not post comments. Edit your question and include more information. — John Hanley
I am not sure but I think you need to specify the region as projects/[project-id]/locations/europe-west1 — John Hanley
I tried europe-west too, but returns the same error. I think the client will build that URL with the information passed through the SDK, but I can try execute a manual call with that — user1886812

Jan Hernandez Jan Hernandez · Accepted Answer · 2020-03-30T14:47:19

I realized which the example that you are using is for non App Engine/Cloud functions environments please try the simple example that is in the npm page.

Please check on your package.json that you are defining the latest version of google-cloud/tasks library, at this time it is 1.9.0

You don't need to use a Ouath token within App Engine/ Cloud Functions environments, because are already configured with a service account.

// Imports the Google Cloud Tasks library.
  const {CloudTasksClient} = require('@google-cloud/tasks');

  // Instantiates a client.
  const client = new CloudTasksClient();

  // TODO(developer): Uncomment these lines and replace with your values.
  // const project = 'my-project-id';
  // const queue = 'my-appengine-queue';
  // const location = 'us-central1';
  // const payload = 'hello';

  // Construct the fully qualified queue name.
  const parent = client.queuePath(project, location, queue);

  const task = {
    appEngineHttpRequest: {
      httpMethod: 'POST',
      relativeUri: '/log_payload',
    },
  };

  if (payload) {
    task.appEngineHttpRequest.body = Buffer.from(payload).toString('base64');
  }

  if (inSeconds) {
    task.scheduleTime = {
      seconds: inSeconds + Date.now() / 1000,
    };
  }

  const request = {
    parent: parent,
    task: task,
  };

  console.log('Sending task:');
  console.log(task);
  // Send create task request.
  const [response] = await client.createTask(request);
  const name = response.name;
  console.log(`Created task ${name}`);

Google Cloud Tasks: Location 'europe-west1' is not a valid location

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