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JavaScript

Getting an "Unexpected identifier" error when trying to utilize my separate printer.js file

Getting this error:

/Users/leftynaut/Code/node/treehouse-profile/printer.js:12
module.exports.message = printMessage;
^^^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier

When running this command:

node app.js chalkers davemcfarland leftynaut

Here is my app.js:

var profile = require("./profile.js");
var users = process.argv.slice(2);
users.forEach(profile.get);

Here is my profile.js:

// problem: we need a simple way to look at a user's badge count and JS points
// solution: use node.js to connect to Treehouse's API to get profile info to print out
var https = require('https');
var http = require('http');
var printer = require("./printer.js");

function get(username){
  //Connect to the API URL (https://teamtreehouse.com/username.json)
  var request = https.get("https://teamtreehouse.com/" + username + ".json", function(response) {
    var body = "";
    //Read the data
    response.on('data', function(chunk) {
      body += chunk;
    });
    response.on('end', function() {
      if(response.statusCode === 200) {
        try {
        //Parse the data
          var profile = JSON.parse(body);
            //Print the data
          printer.message(username,profile.badges.length, profile.points.JavaScript);
        } catch(error) {
          //Parse Error
          printer.error(error);
        }
      } else {
        //Status Code Error
        printer.error({message: "There was an error getting a profile for " + username + ". (" + http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] + ")"});
      }
    });

  });

  //Connection error
  request.on('error', printer.error);
}


module.exports.get = get;

And here is my printer.js:

  //Print out message
  function printMessage(userName, badgeCount, points) {
    var message = userName + ' has ' + badgeCount + ' total badge(s) and ' + points + ' points in JavaScript';
    console.log(message);
  }

  //Print out error messages
  function printError(error) {
     console.error(error.message);
  }
}
module.exports.message = printMessage;
module.exports.error = printError;

1 Answer

Looks like you have one extra bracket:

  function printError(error) {
     console.error(error.message);
  }
} // bracket that might cause the error

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