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Examples not working in Application Studio #7

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@frankwese

As the Application Studio is preconfigured with @sap/cds-dk 9 the example can't start:

 This application uses '@sap/cds' version 7.9, which is not compatible with the installed '@sap/cds-dk' version 9.
  You can either:
  - update '@sap/cds' to the latest version (recommended)
  - downgrade '@sap/cds-dk' to version 8

upgrading the application to version 9 via the package.json leads to the following error:

[cds] - using bindings from: { registry: '~/.cds-services.json' }
[cds] - connect to db > sqlite { database: ':memory:' }
/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:126
  err = new Error(
        ^

Error: Could not locate the bindings file. Tried:
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Debug/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Release/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Release/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/default/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/compiled/22.13.1/linux/x64/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/release/install-root/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/debug/install-root/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/default/install-root/better_sqlite3.node
 → /extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v127-linux-x64/better_sqlite3.node
    at bindings (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/bindings/bindings.js:126:9)
    at new Database (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/lib/database.js:48:64)
    at create (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/@cap-js/sqlite/lib/SQLiteService.js:36:23)
    at Pool._createResource (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/generic-pool/lib/Pool.js:319:42)
    at Pool._dispense (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/generic-pool/lib/Pool.js:237:12)
    at Pool.acquire (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/generic-pool/lib/Pool.js:468:10)
    at SQLiteService.acquire (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/@cap-js/db-service/lib/common/DatabaseService.js:106:28)
    at SQLiteService.begin (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/@cap-js/db-service/lib/common/DatabaseService.js:66:27)
    at SQLiteService._begin [as dispatch] (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/@sap/cds/lib/srv/srv-tx.js:195:38)
    at SQLiteService.run (/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/@sap/cds/lib/srv/cds.Service.js:66:17) {
  tries: [
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Debug/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/Release/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Debug/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Debug/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/out/Release/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/Release/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/build/default/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/compiled/22.13.1/linux/x64/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/release/install-root/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/debug/install-root/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/addon-build/default/install-root/better_sqlite3.node',
    '/extbin/globals/bun/global/install/node_modules/better-sqlite3/lib/binding/node-v127-linux-x64/better_sqlite3.node'
  ]
}

The only solution seems to be to install @sap/cds-dk version 7 as a devDependency and use npx cds watch to start the application

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