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JavaScript Node.js Basics 2017 Building a Command Line Application Getting the Response Body

Posted by angelicaestrada
angelicaestrada
9,863 Points

Need help with getting the response body challenge

I've tried everything I can think of to the code to work but after review the video and documentation, I am still unable to get it to work. Please...help...

app.js 
const https = require("https");
const request = https.get("https://teamtreehouse.com/chalkers.json", response => {
    let responseBody = "";

    response.on("data", dataChunk => {

    });

    response.on("data", (chunk) => {
        console.log(chunk.responseBody);
    });

});

request.on("error", error => {
    console.error(error.message);
});

1 Answer

Darryl Mah
Darryl Mah
5,492 Points
Darryl Mah
Darryl Mah
5,492 Points

Aloha,

In this challenge you’ll want to concatenate the “responseBody” with “dataChunk”. Since they’re both strings you’ll can use the “+” or “+=“ to combine the two. You want to do this on the response.on function with the “dataChunk” callback

response.on(“data”, dataChunk => { responseBody = responseBody + dataChunk; });

Or

response.on(“data”, dataChunk => { responseBody += dataChunk; });

Hope this helps!

angelicaestrada
angelicaestrada
9,863 Points

Thank you so much!