# Help on "invalid shape found after applying changes" error **URL:** \ **Category:** Self-host\ **Tags:** developers\ **Created:** [January 30, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/help-on-invalid-shape-found-after-applying-changes-error/7689 "2025-01-30T15:06:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rohan\_Kapoor](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/rohan_kapoor/32/7033_2.png) [@Rohan\_Kapoor](https://community.penpot.app/u/Rohan_Kapoor)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/help-on-invalid-shape-found-after-applying-changes-error/7689/1 "2025-01-30T15:06:42Z")
Hi there, **Overview** I’m trying to programmatically create a new file inside of penpot and add an svg inside of that file. I’ve confirmed the file gets created, however, when it tries to insert the svg, I’m getting a 500 response with “invalid shape found after applying changes.” I’ve tried: - Changing `"frame-id"` / `"parent-id"` to something else, e.g. leaving them out or setting them to the same ID as the shape itself - Removing `"shapes": ["516c04a1-8325-40a4-927a-e5c9bbf2335f"]` from the root frame object - Checking whether the shape might need to reference an existing “root shape” ID if that’s how Penpot handles top-level frames - Confirming the user’s cookie is valid (the `create-file` call does succeed, so presumably it’s recognized?) But so far, I keep triggering the same 500. Is there a specific shape property, parent reference, or child reference that’s causing this shape validation to fail? Or is it something else? From the logs, I see that Penpot is complaining about my “Root Frame” object. **Full Context** I’m building a web app with a penpot instance sitting inside of it. I have two apps running locally: 1. My main app at localhost:3000 2. Penpot (from source) at localhost:3449 My main app is making an HTTP request to Penpot’s backend (`/api/rpc/command/update-file`) to: 1. Create a new file via `create-file` 2. Insert a top-level `frame` shape called `"Root Frame"` 3. Insert an `svg-raw` shape inside that new frame, containing some test SVG Auth is done by reusing the user’s existing Penpot session cookie. In my logs, I see the cookie like: auth-token=eyJhbGciOiJBMjU2S1ciLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIn0.lGCGi… My code to do this is in a route handler (`route.ts`) under the following function: // … async function createFileAndPasteTextInPenpot(snippetHtml: string, userCookie: string): Promise { // 1) create-file // 2) parse the newly created file’s ID and page ID // 3) update-file with two “add-obj” changes: // (a) A top-level “frame” shape // (b) An “svg-raw” shape as a child of that frame } // … I can confirm the “create-file” call succeeds (I see a new file ID and page ID in the logs). The next call to `update-file` fails with status 500. The terminal shows a large “invalid shape found” error from Penpot. **When I run this, I see the following in the logs:** “invalid shape found after applying changes” … “Shape geometry is invalid” or “Shape minimal record” … **along with a big chunk of shape schema checks. In the logs, it references the “Root Frame” shape with:** points = [[0, 0], [1200, 0], [1200, 800], [0, 800]] parent-id = “00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000” frame-id = “00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000” shapes = [“516c04a1-8325-40a4-927a-e5c9bbf2335f”] **But that child shape `"516c04a1-8325-40a4-927a-e5c9bbf2335f"` is never declared as an `add-obj`. So maybe that’s part of the issue. Or maybe it’s that the root frame’s parent is `00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000` when it shouldn’t be. I’m not sure which detail is causing the validation to fail. Here are the logs:** [DEBUG] Entering createFileAndPasteTextInPenpot() function… [DEBUG] userCookie (session cookie) value: auth-token=eyJhbGciOiJBMjU2S1ciL… [DEBUG] Attempting to create-file in Penpot at [http://localhost:3449](http://localhost:3449) [DEBUG] createdFileData from Penpot create-file: { ‘~:features’: { ‘~#set’: [ ‘layout/grid’, ‘fdata/pointer-map’, ‘fdata/objects-map’, ‘components/v2’, ‘fdata/shape-data-type’ ] }, ‘~:name’: ‘AI Created File’, ‘~:revn’: 0, ‘~:vern’: 0, ‘~:id’: ‘~u5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868825e561’, ‘~:is-shared’: false, ‘~:version’: 61, ‘~:project-id’: ‘~u5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a5ea9f9ce5c6’, ‘~:data’: { ‘~:pages’: [‘~u5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a’], ‘~:pages-index’: { ‘~u5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a’: [Object] }, ‘~:id’: ‘~u5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868825e561’, ‘~:options’: { ‘~:components-v2’: true } } } [DEBUG] New file ID: ~u5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868825e561 =\> 5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868825e561 revn: 0 [DEBUG] Found page ID: ~u5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a =\> 5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a [DEBUG] No root frame ID found for page. We’ll create a brand-new one ourselves… [DEBUG] Next step: Attempting to call update-file to insert a root ‘frame’ plus an ‘svg-raw’ shape… [DEBUG] updateFileBody: { id: ‘5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868825e561’, ‘session-id’: ‘f68de4c4-8ca3-4a08-ac60-20b60ecd9d86’, revn: 0, vern: 0, changes: [ { type: ‘add-obj’, id: ‘0674c97c-43a6-441d-88fb-c50673a88ea3’, ‘page-id’: ‘5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a’, ‘frame-id’: ‘00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000’, obj: [Object] }, { type: ‘add-obj’, id: ‘870d47cd-5519-4fb9-ace4-ca972322b4a9’, ‘page-id’: ‘5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a’, ‘frame-id’: ‘ca8889ee-8827-4717-a62e-e2e7797b3e35’, obj: [Object] } ] } [DEBUG] Attempting fetch to [http://localhost:3449/api/rpc/command/update-file](http://localhost:3449/api/rpc/command/update-file) [DEBUG] update-file responded with status: 500 [DEBUG] update-file failed. Response text: {“~:type”:“~:server-error”,“~:code”:“~:assertion”,“~:hint”:“invalid shape found after applying changes”,“~:explain”:“Errors:\n[{:path [0], … (massive schema validation error) …}]\n\nValue:\n{:y 0,\n :hide-fill-on-export false,\n :transform [1 0 0 1 0 0],\n :hide-in-viewer false,\n :name "Root Frame",\n :width 1200,\n :type "frame",\n :points [[0 0] [1200 0] [1200 800] [0 800]],\n :show-content true,\n :transform-inverse [1 0 0 1 0 0],\n :page-id "5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a",\n :id #uuid "0674c97c-43a6-441d-88fb-c50673a88ea3",\n …}\n\n”} [DEBUG] This indicates invalid session/cookie or shape validation errors, etc. **Below is the gist of my “update-file” body that fails. After the `POST` to `/api/rpc/command/update-file`, Penpot returns a 500 with the big “invalid shape found” schema error.** { “id”: “5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868825e561”, “session-id”: “f68de4c4-8ca3-4a08-ac60-20b60ecd9d86”, “revn”: 0, “vern”: 0, “changes”: [ { “type”: “add-obj”, “id”: “0674c97c-43a6-441d-88fb-c50673a88ea3”, “page-id”: “5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a”, “frame-id”: “00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000”, “obj”: { “id”: “0674c97c-43a6-441d-88fb-c50673a88ea3”, “type”: “frame”, “name”: “Root Frame”, “page-id”: “5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a”, “parent-id”: “00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000”, “frame-id”: “00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000”, “points”: [[0, 0], [1200, 0], [1200, 800], [0, 800]], “x”: 0, “y”: 0, “width”: 1200, “height”: 800, “selrect”: { “x”: 0, “y”: 0, “width”: 1200, “height”: 800 }, “transform”: [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], “transform-inverse”: [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], “shapes”: [“516c04a1-8325-40a4-927a-e5c9bbf2335f”], “hide-fill-on-export”: false, “hide-in-viewer”: false, “show-content”: true } }, { “type”: “add-obj”, “id”: “870d47cd-5519-4fb9-ace4-ca972322b4a9”, “page-id”: “5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a”, “frame-id”: “ca8889ee-8827-4717-a62e-e2e7797b3e35”, “obj”: { “id”: “870d47cd-5519-4fb9-ace4-ca972322b4a9”, “type”: “svg-raw”, “name”: “Simple UI (raw SVG)”, “page-id”: “5b16e598-5edb-8033-8005-a8868826392a”, “parent-id”: “0674c97c-43a6-441d-88fb-c50673a88ea3”, “frame-id”: “0674c97c-43a6-441d-88fb-c50673a88ea3”, “points”: [[80, 80], [480, 80], [480, 380], [80, 380]], “x”: 80, “y”: 80, “width”: 400, “height”: 300, “selrect”: { “x”: 80, “y”: 80, “width”: 400, “height”: 300 }, “transform”: [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], “transform-inverse”: [1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], “svg-attrs”: { “raw”: “\ … ” } } } ] } Appreciate the help, Rohan ---
**Author:** ![carolina.portugal](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/carolina.portugal/32/36_2.png) [@carolina.portugal](https://community.penpot.app/u/carolina.portugal)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 8:53am UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/help-on-invalid-shape-found-after-applying-changes-error/7689/2 "2025-01-31T08:53:37Z")
Hello @Rohan_Kapoor I asked the team to take a look into it. While we wait for that, I’m curious to understand your use case! Are you integrating Penpot into another tool, or is this part of a larger workflow? ---
**Author:** ![Rohan\_Kapoor](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/rohan_kapoor/32/7033_2.png) [@Rohan\_Kapoor](https://community.penpot.app/u/Rohan_Kapoor)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:56pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/help-on-invalid-shape-found-after-applying-changes-error/7689/3 "2025-01-31T15:56:30Z")
Hi Carolina, thanks for the response. Happy to share more: I’m building a tool that lets you describe design ideas, and it will turn them into visuals on a canvas. So I have an instance of Penpot (from source) running inside my tool, displayed in an iframe. Hope that provides clarity. ---
**Author:** ![Rohan\_Kapoor](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/community.penpot.app/rohan_kapoor/32/7033_2.png) [@Rohan\_Kapoor](https://community.penpot.app/u/Rohan_Kapoor)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2025, 5:51pm UTC](https://community.penpot.app/t/help-on-invalid-shape-found-after-applying-changes-error/7689/4 "2025-02-21T17:51:55Z")
Hi @carolina.portugal! Wanted to follow up here. Did the team have a chance to look into the issue?