# I have some trouble with the findNearest() function called from an item
**URL:** https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [February 23, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823 "2015-02-23T10:48:16Z")
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### Author:  [@xZwop](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/xZwop)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 10:48am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823/1 "2015-02-23T10:48:16Z")
Hello,
I’m was trying to play the multiplayer game Greed, and somehow I wanted to do this with my peasant:
- find out the closest gold to my peasant
- find out if there wasn’t an enemy peon closer than my peasant to the gold
But whenever I try to call findNearest from the item API, I have the following error poping up:
> Cannot read property ‘apply’ of undefined
I reduced the code to this, am I doing something wrong here or is this function bugged?
```
var base = this;
var items = base.getItems();
var item=base.getNearest(items);
if (item) {
var closestEnemy = item.findNearest(base.getEnemies());
}
```
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### Author:  [@J\_F\_B\_M](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/J_F_B_M)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 10:59am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823/2 "2015-02-23T10:59:55Z")
You are using one time `findNearest()` and one time `getNearest()`. I don’t recall right now which is the correct one, but I’m pretty sure only one of these will work.
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### Author:  [@xZwop](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/xZwop)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823/3 "2015-02-23T11:02:28Z")
base have on its API a getNearest() function, while item have in its API a findNearest() function.
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### Author:  [@J\_F\_B\_M](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/J_F_B_M)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 11:10am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823/4 "2015-02-23T11:10:01Z")
That’s funny, I never noticed this. I actually never had the idea to use an items findNearest-function. I usually try to read the target, or track enemies over several gameticks to guess where they are going. Yours is… so much faster.
Anyway, after I opened an issue about this: Did you try to swap either method-call with the equivalent other?
Try to use `findNearest()` in both cases, or `getNearest()`. Maybe the info-popup is wrong.
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### Author:  [@xZwop](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/xZwop)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 11:18am UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823/5 "2015-02-23T11:18:15Z")
Even if _**findNearest()**_ works as well as _**getNearest()**_ for the base object (I have no idea why there are two functions doing the same thing by the way), none of them works with the item object:
_**item.findNearest()**_ error is:
> Cannot read property ‘apply’ of undefined
_**item.getNearest()**_ error is:
> Undefined is not a function
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### Author:  [@J\_F\_B\_M](https://discourse.codecombat.com/u/J_F_B_M)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2015, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.codecombat.com/t/i-have-some-trouble-with-the-findnearest-function-called-from-an-item/2823/6 "2015-02-23T12:10:26Z")
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