[Bug]: ($userId) must be of type string, null given

[Hardexit]

⚠️ This issue respects the following points: ⚠️

• This is a bug, not a question or a configuration/webserver/proxy issue.
• This issue is not already reported on Github (I've searched it).
• Nextcloud Server is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
• Maps app is up to date. See Maintenance and Release Schedule for supported versions.
• I agree to follow Nextcloud's Code of Conduct.

Bug description

When the map is called up, this error message appears immediately.

Steps to reproduce

Open the maps app within Nextcloud

Expected behavior

The map is displayed

Installation method

Manual installation

Operating system

Debian/Ubuntu

PHP engine version

Other

Web server

Nginx

Database engine version

MariaDB

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install of the server?

Updated from a minor version (ex. 22.2.3 to 22.2.4)

Is this bug present after an update or on a fresh install of the app?

Updated from a minor version

Are you using the Nextcloud Server Encryption module?

Encryption is Disabled

What user-backends are you using?

• Default user-backend (database)
• LDAP/ Active Directory
• SSO - SAML
• Other

Configuration report

{
    "system": {
        "passwordsalt": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "trusted_domains": [
            "mmmbox.mmmgroup.com"
        ],
        "datadirectory": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "skeletondirectory": "\/home\/mmmbox_skeleton",
        "tempdirectory": "\/home\/mmmbox_tmp",
        "dbtype": "mysql",
        "version": "30.0.3.2",
        "dbname": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbhost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbtableprefix": "oc_",
        "dbuser": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "dbpassword": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mysql.utf8mb4": true,
        "installed": true,
        "loglevel": 2,
        "logdateformat": "d.m.Y H:i:s",
        "logtimezone": "Europe\/Berlin",
        "log_rotate_size": 10485760,
        "maintenance": false,
        "secret": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "ldapIgnoreNamingRules": false,
        "forcessl": true,
        "mail_smtpmode": "smtp",
        "mail_from_address": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_domain": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtphost": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_smtpport": "25",
        "ldapProviderFactory": "\\OCA\\User_LDAP\\LDAPProviderFactory",
        "ldapUserCleanupInterval": 51,
        "instanceid": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
        "mail_sendmailmode": "smtp",
        "overwrite.cli.url": "https:\/\/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com",
        "memcache.local": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "memcache.distributed": "\\OC\\Memcache\\APCu",
        "memcache.locking": "\\OC\\Memcache\\Redis",
        "redis": {
            "host": "***REMOVED SENSITIVE VALUE***",
            "port": 6379,
            "timeout": 0
        },
        "default_language": "de",
        "default_locale": "de",
        "default_phone_region": "de",
        "trashbin_retention_obligation": "auto, 60",
        "versions_retention_obligation": "auto, 120",
        "defaultapp": "apporder",
        "simpleSignUpLink": "false",
        "activity_expire_days": "90",
        "updater.release.channel": "stable",
        "maintenance_window_start": 1
    }
}

List of activated Apps

Enabled:
  - activity: 3.0.0
  - app_api: 4.0.3
  - approval: 2.0.0
  - circles: 30.0.0
  - cloud_federation_api: 1.13.0
  - comments: 1.20.1
  - contacts: 6.1.1
  - contactsinteraction: 1.11.0
  - dashboard: 7.10.0
  - dav: 1.31.1
  - federatedfilesharing: 1.20.0
  - federation: 1.20.0
  - files: 2.2.0
  - files_downloadlimit: 3.0.0
  - files_pdfviewer: 3.0.0
  - files_reminders: 1.3.0
  - files_sharing: 1.22.0
  - files_trashbin: 1.20.1
  - files_versions: 1.23.0
  - forms: 4.3.4
  - groupfolders: 18.0.7
  - impersonate: 1.17.0
  - logreader: 3.0.0
  - lookup_server_connector: 1.18.0
  - maps: 1.5.0
  - nextcloud_announcements: 2.0.0
  - notifications: 3.0.0
  - oauth2: 1.18.1
  - password_policy: 2.0.0
  - photos: 3.0.2
  - privacy: 2.0.0
  - provisioning_api: 1.20.0
  - quota_warning: 1.20.0
  - related_resources: 1.5.0
  - serverinfo: 2.0.0
  - settings: 1.13.0
  - sharebymail: 1.20.0
  - spreed: 20.1.0
  - survey_client: 2.0.0
  - systemtags: 1.20.0
  - text: 4.1.0
  - theming: 2.5.0
  - twofactor_backupcodes: 1.19.0
  - twofactor_nextcloud_notification: 4.0.0
  - twofactor_totp: 12.0.0-dev
  - twofactor_webauthn: 2.0.0
  - updatenotification: 1.20.0
  - user_ldap: 1.21.0
  - user_status: 1.10.0
  - viewer: 3.0.0
  - webhook_listeners: 1.1.0-dev
  - workflowengine: 2.12.0
Disabled:
  - admin_audit: 1.20.0
  - bruteforcesettings: 3.0.0 (installed 2.0.1)
  - encryption: 2.18.0
  - files_external: 1.22.0 (installed 0.5.2)
  - files_rightclick: 0.15.1 (installed 1.6.0)
  - firstrunwizard: 3.0.0 (installed 1.0)
  - polls: 7.2.5 (installed 7.2.5)
  - recommendations: 3.0.0 (installed 0.4.0)
  - richdocuments: 8.5.2 (installed 8.5.2)
  - support: 2.0.0 (installed 1.3.0)
  - suspicious_login: 8.0.0
  - twofactor_admin: 4.7.1 (installed 4.7.1)
  - weather_status: 1.10.0 (installed 1.0.0)

Nextcloud Signing status

No errors have been found.

Nextcloud Logs

{"reqId":"iYxcVlO17MYonlqi73bZ","level":3,"time":"2024-12-06T08:16:03+01:00","remoteAddr":"212.211.191.216","user":"--","app":"index","method":"GET","url":"/apps/maps/","message":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0","version":"30.0.3.2","exception":{"Exception":"TypeError","Message":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given","Code":0,"Trace":[{"function":"__construct","class":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php","line":61,"function":"newInstanceArgs","class":"ReflectionClass","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php","line":106,"function":"buildClass","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php","line":124,"function":"resolve","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/private/AppFramework/DependencyInjection/DIContainer.php","line":451,"function":"query","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/private/AppFramework/DependencyInjection/DIContainer.php","line":423,"function":"queryNoFallback","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/private/AppFramework/App.php","line":140,"function":"query","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/private/Route/Router.php","line":302,"function":"main","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\App","type":"::"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/lib/base.php","line":1003,"function":"match","class":"OC\\Route\\Router","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/index.php","line":24,"function":"handleRequest","class":"OC","type":"::"}],"File":"/var/www/mmmbox.mmmgroup.com/apps/maps/lib/Controller/PageController.php","Line":25,"message":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given","exception":[],"CustomMessage":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given"},"id":"6752aa3a1b150"}

Browser Console

Additional info

Btw, i use php8.2 but i cant select it.

[umgfoin]

Thanks for reporting!
should be fixed with rel 1.6.0 (#1431).

[ngdangtu-vn]

May I reopen this issue because it seems that the bug still here:

Nextcloud: AIO v11.4.0
Map: 1.6.0

Operating System: Linux 6.12.34+rpt-rpi-v8 aarch64
CPU: Raspberry Pi 4 Model B Rev 1.4 (4 threads)
Memory: 7.64 GB
cpu-thermal: 	 66.705°C

error log

{
  "reqId": "LlZTXUJrD53NYY7WpcDW",
  "level": 3,
  "time": "2025-08-12T01:58:37+00:00",
  "remoteAddr": "207.241.225.61",
  "user": "--",
  "app": "index",
  "method": "GET",
  "url": "/apps/maps/m/2084",
  "message": "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given",
  "userAgent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/130.0.0.0 Safari/537.36",
  "version": "31.0.7.1",
  "exception": {
    "Exception": "TypeError",
    "Message": "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given",
    "Code": 0,
    "Trace": [
      {
        "function": "__construct",
        "class": "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "maps",
          {
            "__class__": "OC\\AppFramework\\Http\\Request"
          },
          {
            "__class__": "OC\\EventDispatcher\\EventDispatcher"
          },
          {
            "__class__": "OC\\AllConfig"
          },
          {
            "__class__": "OC\\InitialStateService"
          },
          null
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php",
        "line": 61,
        "function": "newInstanceArgs",
        "class": "ReflectionClass",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          [
            "maps",
            {
              "__class__": "OC\\AppFramework\\Http\\Request"
            },
            {
              "__class__": "OC\\EventDispatcher\\EventDispatcher"
            },
            {
              "__class__": "OC\\AllConfig"
            },
            {
              "__class__": "OC\\InitialStateService"
            },
            "And 1 more entries, set log level to debug to see all entries"
          ]
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php",
        "line": 106,
        "function": "buildClass",
        "class": "OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          {
            "__class__": "ReflectionClass",
            "name": "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php",
        "line": 124,
        "function": "resolve",
        "class": "OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/DependencyInjection/DIContainer.php",
        "line": 440,
        "function": "query",
        "class": "OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/DependencyInjection/DIContainer.php",
        "line": 412,
        "function": "queryNoFallback",
        "class": "OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/AppFramework/App.php",
        "line": 140,
        "function": "query",
        "class": "OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/private/Route/Router.php",
        "line": 315,
        "function": "main",
        "class": "OC\\AppFramework\\App",
        "type": "::",
        "args": [
          "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController",
          "indexMyMap",
          {
            "__class__": "OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer"
          },
          {
            "myMapId": "2084",
            "_route": "maps.page.indexmymap"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/lib/base.php",
        "line": 1040,
        "function": "match",
        "class": "OC\\Route\\Router",
        "type": "->",
        "args": [
          "/apps/maps/m/2084"
        ]
      },
      {
        "file": "/var/www/html/index.php",
        "line": 24,
        "function": "handleRequest",
        "class": "OC",
        "type": "::",
        "args": []
      }
    ],
    "File": "/var/www/html/custom_apps/maps/lib/Controller/PageController.php",
    "Line": 26,
    "message": "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given",
    "exception": [],
    "CustomMessage": "OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given"
  },
  "id": "689b0e8763cab"
}

[ant0nwax]

I also still see the same error, please reopen.

behind httpd reverse-proxy
CentOS Stream 8
Nextcloud Hub 25 Autumn (32.0.2)
maps-app 1.6.0

{"reqId":"aTbdsBuEtAVL620M8Xh2nwAAAMk","level":3,"time":"2025-12-08T14:16:17+00:00","remoteAddr":"WHATISMYIP","user":"--","app":"index","method":"GET","url":"/nextcloud/index.php/apps/maps/","message":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given","userAgent":"Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/142.0.0.0 Safari/537.36","version":"32.0.2.2","exception":{"Exception":"TypeError","Message":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given","Code":0,"Trace":[{"function":"__construct","class":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php","line":72,"function":"newInstanceArgs","class":"ReflectionClass","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php","line":122,"function":"buildClass","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/Utility/SimpleContainer.php","line":140,"function":"resolve","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/DependencyInjection/DIContainer.php","line":352,"function":"query","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\Utility\\SimpleContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/DependencyInjection/DIContainer.php","line":324,"function":"queryNoFallback","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/AppFramework/App.php","line":133,"function":"query","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\DependencyInjection\\DIContainer","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/private/Route/Router.php","line":321,"function":"main","class":"OC\\AppFramework\\App","type":"::"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/lib/base.php","line":1061,"function":"match","class":"OC\\Route\\Router","type":"->"},{"file":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/index.php","line":25,"function":"handleRequest","class":"OC","type":"::"}],"File":"/var/www/html/nextcloud/apps/maps/lib/Controller/PageController.php","Line":26,"message":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given","exception":{},"CustomMessage":"OCA\\Maps\\Controller\\PageController::__construct(): Argument #6 ($userId) must be of type string, null given"}}

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