How to fix Invariant Violation errors when running Gatsby build/develop

[AnderUstarroz]

I am using node v7.10.0, Gatsby v3.6.1 with plugins:

• gatsby-source-apiserver v2.1.8
• gatsby-plugin-image v1.4.0

I have used the following function on file gatsby-node.js to create nodes in GraphQL with images that can be queried later on:

// gatsby-node.js
const { createRemoteFileNode } = module.require(`gatsby-source-filesystem`)

exports.onCreateNode = async ({   node,
  actions: { createNode },
  store,
  cache,
  createNodeId,
 }) => {
  if (node.internal.type === `API__images` && node.pk) {
    let fileNode = await createRemoteFileNode({
      url: node.url, // string that points to the URL of the image
      parentNodeId: node.id, // id of the parent node of the fileNode you are going to create
      createNode, // helper function in gatsby-node to generate the node
      createNodeId, // helper function in gatsby-node to generate the node
      cache, // Gatsby's cache
      store, // Gatsby's Redux store
    })
    // if the file was created, attach the new node to the parent node
    if (fileNode) {
      node.image___NODE = fileNode.id
    }
  }
}

This seems to work normally when running gatsby develop or gatsby build but if I try to run again any of those commands (with same source data) the following error is raised:

Missing onError handler for invocation 'building-schema', 
error was Invariant Violation: Encountered an error 
trying to infer a GraphQL type for: `image___NODE`. 
There is no corresponding node with the `id` field matching: 

"27564a59-be49-51fb-98d6-c32de4f2030c",
"379357c0-1faa-5177-806d-7f155f2e3e85",

...

Those 27564a59-b.., 379357c0-1.. are the image node ids that were created on the gatsby-node.js function.

If I run gatsby clean it will work normally, but using gatsby clean is not a good solution because cleaning cache will break incremental builds.

Does somebody know how to fix this error? should I use fixed ids for the nodes?

More details on:

• https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67768308/how-to-fix-invariant-violation-errors-when-running-gatsby-build-develop