Defining an actor tutorial issue

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Hello,

I worked through the whole dfinity defining an actor tutorial.

got to the end and went to send the query with

dfx canister call --query actor_hello hello

but the only response I got back was closed parentheses.

()

I was under the impression it would say ‘debug.print: Hello, World from DFINITY’

Any idea what I’ve done wrong here? There’s no error callback so this is a bit difficult to debug.

Thanks!

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Hi, welcome!

The debug print outputs to whichever terminal you ran dfx start in. If you wanted to get a return value you’d need to have the function in your Motoko code return the text and have a return type async Text. The other tutorials will go through this for you.

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oh, weird! that’s, the issue, it worked fine. Thanks for the quick response!

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