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JavaScript Node.js Basics (2014) Building a Command Line Application Handling Parsing and Status Code Errors

Maria Campbell
Maria Campbell
8,641 Points

I got the wrong error when testing out printError in stage_2_video_6 with message object.

This is the code I have in app.js (which includes the code we had to modify because treehouse is now https: this video should really be re-made!):

//Problem: We need a simple way to look at a user's badge count and JavaScript points //Solution: Use Node.js to connect to Treehouse's API to get profile information to print out var https = require("https"); var username = "mariacampbell23";

// 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); }

//Connect to the API URL (https://teamtreehouse.com/username.json) var request = https.get("https://teamtreehouse.com/" + username + ".json", function(response) { // inspect the response object var http = require("http");

http.STATUS_CODES; var body = ""; //Read the data response.on('data', function(chunk) { body += chunk; }); // 'end': event submitted by the system once the end has happened. With this chunk of // code the whole body prints out to terminal instead of simply in chunks. response.on('end', function() { if(response.statusCode === 200) { // if we want to pause the code execution, we use the keyword try and then wrap the code // that I want to try in a block. // If an error occurs, it throws an error object that I can catch. try { var profile = JSON.parse(body); printMessage(username, profile.badges.length, profile.points.JavaScript); /console.dir(profile);/ // this does a pretty print to figure out the total number of badges and points. Brings back all profile info as JSON object } catch(error) { // parse error printError(error); } } else { // status code error printError({message: "There was an error getting the profile for " + username + ". (" http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] + ")"}); } }); //Parse the data //Print the data }); // Connection error handler request.on("error", printError);

The specific code in question is:

} else { // status code error printError({message: "There was an error getting the profile for " + username + ". (" http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] + ")"}); }

This is what I got back in TERMINAL (NOT Workspaces, don't use that because it is not the real world):

node app.js ⏎ /Users/mariacam/Development/bitbucket-repos/nodejs-basics/stage_2_video_6/app.js:45 printError({message: "There was an error getting the profile for " + username + ". (" http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] + ")"}); ^^^^

SyntaxError: Unexpected identifier at exports.runInThisContext (vm.js:53:16) at Module._compile (module.js:414:25) at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:442:10) at Module.load (module.js:356:32) at Function.Module._load (module.js:311:12) at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:467:10) at startup (node.js:136:18) at node.js:963:3

So I would like to know what is wrong here. Anyone else had this issue? Thanks!

1 Answer

Maria Campbell
Maria Campbell
8,641 Points

I found MY error. Instead of:

printError({message: "There was an error getting the profile for " + username + ". (" http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] + ")"});

It should be:

printError({message: "There was an error getting the profile for " + username + ". (" + http.STATUS_CODES[response.statusCode] + ")"});

I inadvertently omitted a + in the concatenation.