`Actor.open_dataset` with `getData()` method produces an `RuntimeError`

[jbartadev]

This works:

await Actor.apify_client.dataset("dataset-id").list_items(limit=1)

This doesn't:

dataset = await Actor.open_dataset(id="dataset-id")
data = await dataset.get_data()

Fails with:

RuntimeError: Dataset with id "dataset-id" does not exist!

According to the documentation, opening the dataset via ID should be supported.

[janbuchar]

Note - this happened with a local run. Our suspicion is that you need to use force_cloud=True.

[Pijukatel]

jbartadev could you please check if it is working in your case with the force_cloud argument as suggested by janbuchar ?

I did some tests and to me it seems to be working as expected, but I will probably add small section about this to documentation about using storages as it is by no means obvious.

[janbuchar]

This was originally reported by @tobice, @jbartadev only made the issue.

[tobice]

Yeah, it was reported by me.

I did some tests and to me it seems to be working as expected.

Cool 👍 As discussed in the Slack thread, there is no actual bug, it's just that mixing remote and local development makes things really confusing. So updating the documentation makes sense.

On top of that, how about updating the error message? If:

• I access storage by ID, and
• I'm in local environment, and
• the storage does not exist, then

show an error mentioning that the issue might be that the storage is remote?