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simon lavery
17,485 PointsBit stuck / nodejs dynamic website
var Profile = require("./profile.js");
//Handle the http route GET and POST ie home
function home(request, response) {
if (request.url === "/") {
//if the url == "/" && GET
//show search
response.writeHead(200, {"content-type":"text/plain"});
response.write("Header\n");
response.write("Search\n");
response.end("Footer\n");
}
//if the url == "/" && POST
// redirect to username
}
//Handle the http get url ie .../username
//if the url == "/..."
function user(request, response) {
var username = request.url.replace("/", "");
if (username.length > 0) {
response.writeHead(200, {"content-type":"text/plain" "charset":"utf-8"});
response.write("Header\n");
//get json from treehouse
var studentProfile = new Profile(username);
//on end
studentProfile.on("end", function(profileJSON) {
var values = {
avatarUrl: profileJSON.gravatar_url,
userName: profileJSON.profile_name,
Javascript: profileJSON.points.JavaScript,
Badges: profileJSON.Badges.total
}
//show profile
response.write(values.userName + " has " + values.Javascript + " Javascript points. " + "\n");
response.end("Footer\n");
});
//on error
studentProfile.on("error", function(error) {
//show error
response.end("Footer\n");
});
}
}
module.exports.home = home;
module.exports.user = user;
The response is still the same just header and footer ? I has a look at the error message and the only one is "The character encoding of the plain text document was not declared. The document will render with garbled text in some browser configurations if the document contains characters from outside the US-ASCII range. The character encoding of the file needs to be declared in the transfer protocol or file needs to use a byte order mark as an encoding signature."
Ihave tried adding this at the top but not sure if im doing it right or if thats what is causing the problem?
3 Answers
rydavim
18,813 PointsThis is going to seem a bit silly, but it looks like the problem is that you capitalized the b in badges.
var values = {
avatarUrl: profileJSON.gravatar_url,
userName: profileJSON.profile_name,
Javascript: profileJSON.points.JavaScript,
Badges: profileJSON.badges.total // Don't capitalize badges in badges.total here.
};
That fixed your code for me, but let me know if that doesn't work for you. Happy coding! :)
simon lavery
17,485 PointsThanks but still not working for me, I took away the values object and just tried getting the status code but its not getting anything, the only thing tat comes through on the response is header ?
rydavim
18,813 PointsWhoops! There was one other thing I changed. I took out the "charset":"utf-8", which was causing it to not run at all for me.
I sort of doubt that's your issue though. My guess at this point is that the problem lies in your profile.js file. Since I'm running your router.js code against my own code, it may be that our profile files are different.
The profile file gets a bit wonky, because Treehouse changed their profile api to use https instead of http. This complicates things, as you'll need to use both - https to fetch the profile data, and http to handle the errors.
That might be enough to get you on the right track. If you run into issues though, I'm happy to help if you post your profile.js code here. The solution will not match the teacher's finished file, as they were using http at the time of the videos.
Sorry, I completely forgot about that and that it might cause issues for you.
simon lavery
17,485 PointsYea i have tried it without the charset bit, I only put that in because of an error I was getting about encoding ? I dont know what it is i have tried it lots of different ways and simplified bits, the code is running fine its just not fetching the profile as you said but I havent changed anything in the profile.js file because it was all in the project files download. I think i might just start it again, but thanks anyway.
rydavim
18,813 PointsRight, what I'm saying is that the profile.js file that is in the project files download will not work. They have changed the way you access the api since the making of that video. If you post the code here, I can help you fix it to work with the new access method.
Edit: The charset warning is due to the head not having a meta tag that identifies the character encoding. You can add that later once you've got to the point that you're generating an actual website, rather than text.
rydavim
18,813 PointsActually, if you're using the project files anyway, you're welcome to try my code if you like.
Here is my profile.js code, which works with your router.js assuming the small changes detailed above.
var EventEmitter = require("events").EventEmitter;
var https = require("https");
var http = require("http");
var util = require("util");
function Profile(username) {
EventEmitter.call(this);
profileEmitter = this;
// connect to new api url (https://teamtreehouse.com/username.json)
var request = https.get("https://teamtreehouse.com/" + username + ".json", function(response) {
var body = "";
if (response.statusCode !== 200) {
request.abort();
// status code error handling
profileEmitter.emit("error", new Error("There was an error getting the profile for " + username + ". (" + http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] + ")"));
}
// read the profile data
response.on('data', function (chunk) {
body += chunk;
profileEmitter.emit("data", chunk);
});
response.on('end', function () {
if(response.statusCode === 200) {
try {
// parse the profile data
var profile = JSON.parse(body);
profileEmitter.emit("end", profile);
} catch (error) {
profileEmitter.emit("error", error);
}
}
}).on("error", function(error){
profileEmitter.emit("error", error);
});
});
}
util.inherits(Profile, EventEmitter);
module.exports = Profile;
Let me know if you have any questions, but that should let you advance your project to the next step.
simon lavery
17,485 PointsHey got it working, thanks for the help, I did have the right project files but i tried it again and it worked, i think you were right the first time , I was accessing the JSON object wrong, but its working now.
rydavim
18,813 PointsGood to hear, happy coding! :)
rydavim
18,813 Pointsrydavim
18,813 PointsYou can add the language right after your opening backticks when posting code to get fancy syntax highlighting, which I've added to your post. :)