# Error report: setPublicAccess from universalAccess not working as expected

**URL:** https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [June 8, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337 "2022-06-08T21:04:44Z")
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### Author: ![Greetings](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/greetings/32/3226_2.png) [@Greetings](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Greetings)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337/1 "2022-06-08T21:04:44Z")

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Hello everyone, here is the deal, when I try to use setPublicAccess it doesn’t return null, but returns an access object that is unchanged.  
To clarify this: I provide the updates to public access, but those are not applied as if I don’t have permissions to change them, but in that case I should receive null as a return, but I get the unchanged access object.

> **Code**
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> ![Screen Shot 2022-06-09 at 10.26.03 AM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/solidproject/original/2X/2/21cc0cc51b5a4bd6111dab8a1100b20be19e7b4e.png)

> **Console output**
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> ![Screen Shot 2022-06-08 at 10.58.39 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/solidproject/original/2X/e/eb63a9a6e99ba652be8b110e5b3c5bad935da5b4.png)  
> ![Screen Shot 2022-06-08 at 10.59.05 PM](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/uploads/solidproject/original/2X/0/079df84d604a21f64fde948ef16306ed30762087.png)

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### Author: ![Vincent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Vincent](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Vincent)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2022, 10:59am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337/2 "2022-06-09T10:59:32Z")

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Unfortunately I don’t know much about how access on [pod.inrupt.com](http://pod.inrupt.com) works nowadays, but I imagine it would be easier for people who do to help you if you also share what network requests you see (e.g. in your browser’s [network monitor](https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/network_monitor/index.html)).

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### Author: ![nicolasmondada](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/nicolasmondada/32/1905_2.png) [@nicolasmondada](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/nicolasmondada)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2022, 7:49am UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337/3 "2022-06-10T07:49:49Z")

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Hi All,

Thanks for reporting this problem. We are logging this a as a bug and will keep you posted on the progress.

Thanks,  
Nick.-

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### Author: ![Greetings](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/greetings/32/3226_2.png) [@Greetings](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Greetings)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2022, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337/4 "2022-06-10T13:05:56Z")

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Sure, thank you. Do you want me to report it via github?

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### Author: ![nicolasmondada](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/nicolasmondada/32/1905_2.png) [@nicolasmondada](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/nicolasmondada)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2022, 1:29pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337/5 "2022-06-10T13:29:14Z")

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Sure, it doesn’t hurt if you do but feel free not to as well, we will look into this anyway 🙂

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### Author: ![Greetings](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex017/user_avatar/forum.solidproject.org/greetings/32/3226_2.png) [@Greetings](https://forum.solidproject.org/u/Greetings)
#### Post date: [June 13, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.solidproject.org/t/error-report-setpublicaccess-from-universalaccess-not-working-as-expected/5337/6 "2022-06-13T12:17:44Z")

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I have created a bug report on the github:

> <https://github.com/inrupt/solid-client-js/issues/1640>
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> 
> \### Bug description
> 
> SetPublicAccess doesn’t return null, but returns an access object that is unchanged.
> \### To Reproduce
> (the pod used to get this bug is hosted on https://pod.inrupt.com/)
> 1. Create a new container
> 2. try to use setPublicAccess to set a new public access type on the created container (e.g: {read:true, write: true} 
> 4. assign the return to some variable
> 5. check value of that variable, it would have read: false and write: false
> 
> \*\*Minimal reproduction\*\*
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> https://codesandbox.io/s/great-tharp-qzznwy?file=/src/index.ts
> 
> \### Expected result
> The expected result is: 
> 1) null returned in case if you don't have rights to change access to the resource.
> 2) an access object with values that were passed to the function (on return)
> \### Actual result
> 
> an access object with everything set to false was returned (while read: true and write: true were passed to the function)
> \### Environment
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> Please run
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> npx envinfo --system --npmPackages --binaries --npmGlobalPackages --browsers
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> in your project folder and paste the output here:
> \--\>
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> System:
> OS: macOS 10.15.7
> CPU: (4) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-3427U CPU @ 1.80GHz
> Memory: 47.77 MB / 4.00 GB
> Shell: 5.7.1 - /bin/zsh
> Binaries:
> Node: 16.14.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.0/bin/node
> npm: 8.3.1 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v16.14.0/bin/npm
> Browsers:
> Chrome: 102.0.5005.61
> Safari: 15.5
> npmPackages:
> @babel/core: ^7.17.9 =\> 7.17.9 
> @babel/preset-env: ^7.16.11 =\> 7.16.11 
> @babel/preset-react: ^7.16.7 =\> 7.16.7 
> @babel/preset-typescript: ^7.16.7 =\> 7.16.7 
> @inrupt/lit-generated-vocab-common: ^0.3.11 =\> 0.3.11 
> @inrupt/solid-client: ^1.23.1 =\> 1.23.1 
> @inrupt/solid-client-access-grants: ^1.0.1 =\> 1.0.1 
> @inrupt/solid-client-authn-browser: ^1.11.7 =\> 1.11.7 
> @inrupt/solid-ui-react: ^2.7.0 =\> 2.7.0 
> @inrupt/vocab-common-rdf: ^1.0.3 =\> 1.0.3 
> @types/jest: ^27.4.1 =\> 27.4.1 
> @types/node: ^17.0.23 =\> 17.0.23 
> @types/react: ^18.0.2 =\> 18.0.2 
> @types/react-dom: ^18.0.0 =\> 18.0.0 
> assert: ^2.0.0 =\> 2.0.0 
> babel-loader: ^8.2.4 =\> 8.2.4 
> bootstrap: ^5.1.3 =\> 5.1.3 
> buffer: ^6.0.3 =\> 6.0.3 
> css-loader: ^6.7.1 =\> 6.7.1 
> gh-pages: ^3.2.3 =\> 3.2.3 
> html-webpack-plugin: ^5.5.0 =\> 5.5.0 
> rdf-namespaces: ^1.9.2 =\> 1.9.2 
> react: ^18.0.0 =\> 18.0.0 
> react-bootstrap: ^2.2.3 =\> 2.2.3 
> react-dom: ^18.0.0 =\> 18.0.0 
> react-icons: ^4.3.1 =\> 4.3.1 
> solid-file-client: ^2.1.3 =\> 2.1.3 
> style-loader: ^3.3.1 =\> 3.3.1 
> ts-loader: ^9.2.8 =\> 9.2.8 
> typescript: ^4.6.3 =\> 4.6.3 
> webpack: ^5.72.0 =\> 5.72.0 
> webpack-cli: ^4.9.2 =\> 4.9.2 
> webpack-dev-server: ^4.8.1 =\> 4.8.1 
> npmGlobalPackages:
> corepack: 0.10.0
> create-react-app: 5.0.0
> java: 0.12.2
> jest: 27.5.1
> npm: 8.3.1
> typescript: 4.6.2
> 
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> \## Additional information

furthermore I have also added that the function getPublicAccess suffers from the same problem.  
On top of that in the reply message to the bug report that I have linked, after an investigation of the source code I described where the bug might be coming from.