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Saad Khan Malik
25,199 PointsHow would I type a sting based key?
Playing around with the code I've gotten the "profile.points.JavaScript " to work, buts what's the solution when its " profile.points.'Development tools' " as in the key is a string?
Here's my code for reference.
//Problem : We need a simple way to look up a user's badgecount and javascript points.
//solution Use Node.js to connect te teamtreehouse's API to get profile information to print out
var https = require("https");
var username ="saadkhanmalik";
function printMessage(username, badgeCount, points) {
var message = username + " has " + badgeCount + " total badge(s) and " + points + " points in JavaScript";
console.log(message);
}
//connect to the api url:
//https://teamtreehouse.com/saadkhanmalik.json
var request = https.get("https://teamtreehouse.com/" + username + ".json", function(response) {
//console.log(response.statusCode); //Used the to innitially check connection.
var body = "";
//read the data
response.on('data', function (chunk){
body += chunk;
});
response.on('end', function(){
// console.log(body);
// console.log(typeOf body);
var profile = JSON.parse(body);
var totalPoints = ( profile.points.HTML +
profile.points.CSS +
profile.points.Design +
profile.points.JavaScript +
profile.points.Ruby +
profile.points.PHP +
profile.points.WordPress +
profile.points.iOS +
//profile.points.'Development Tools' +
profile.points.Business +
profile.points.Python +
profile.points.Java +
// profile.points.'Digital Literacy' +
// profile.points.'Game Development' +
// profile.points.'C#' +
profile.points.Databases
)
console.log(totalPoints);
printMessage(username, profile.badges.length, profile.points.JavaScript)
//console.dir(profile); //prints entier profile
