A question regarding my next plugin

a_5mith

Now we're all awake again, I'm going to have another stab at this if anyone has any suggestions...

psychobunny

How's it going?

a_5mith

@psychobunny About where my last post is, I couldn't work out why it doesn't seem to be connecting to the api, or if it does, I just don't know how to pull the data that I'm looking for. I know what I want, and I think I know how to get it, but the only way it doesn't crash the plugin, it gives me the undefined error above.

Basically this is the json output of what I wish to target.

{
"pagination": {
    "per_page": 1,
    "items": 14256,
    "page": 1,
    "urls": {
        "last": "http://api.discogs.com/database/search?per_page=1&type=release&catno=VSN018&page=14256&f=json",
        "next": "http://api.discogs.com/database/search?per_page=1&type=release&catno=VSN018&page=2&f=json"
    },
    "pages": 14256
},
"results": [
    {
        "style": [
            "Drum n Bass"
        ],
        "thumb": "http://api.discogs.com/image/R-90-5844720-1404286626-1507.jpeg",
        "format": [
            "Vinyl",
            "12\"",
            "45 RPM",
            "EP",
            "File",
            "MP3"
        ],
        "country": "Netherlands",
        "title": "Noisia - Purpose EP",
        "uri": "/Noisia-Purpose-EP/release/5844720",
        "community": {
            "have": 17,
            "want": 27
        },
        "label": [
            "Vision Recordings"
        ],
        "catno": "VSN018",
        "year": "2014",
        "genre": [
            "Electronic"
        ],
        "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/5844720",
        "type": "release",
        "id": 5844720
    }
]
}

But

returnData = {
                results: {
                    uri: results.uri,
                    thumbnail: results.thumb,
                    catno: results.catno,
                    title: results.title,
                    style: results.style,
                    label: results.label,
                    year: results.year
                }
            };

Returns undefined for everything, so I'd assume it doesn't connect.

julian

@a_5mith, results in that returned data set is an Array, so you'll have to iterate through it (or cheap out and just look at the first array index):

returnData = {
    results: {
        uri: results[0].uri,
        thumbnail: results[0].thumb,
        catno: results[0].catno,
        title: results[0].title,
        style: results[0].style,
        label: results[0].label,
        year: results[0].year
    }
};

... maybe?

Edit: Wow, that was fast.

a_5mith

@julian

Edit: Wow, that was fast.

Pushbullet for Firefox opens the tab automatically.

Will give it a go.

a_5mith

Right, Birthdays over now (after 3 days) and I'm back on Plugin Development.

SyntaxError: Unexpected token
at Object.parse (native)
at Request._callback (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-discogs/index.js:84:33)
at Request.self.callback (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-discogs/node_modules/request/request.js:123:22)
at Request.emit (events.js:98:17)
at Request.<anonymous> (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-discogs/node_modules/request/request.js:1047:14)
at Request.emit (events.js:117:20)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-discogs/node_modules/request/request.js:998:12)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:117:20)
at _stream_readable.js:929:16
at process._tickDomainCallback (node.js:463:13)

84:33 corresponds to the parse in callback(null, JSON.parse(body)),

psychobunny

Means your JSON is malformed, perhaps do a console.log(body) and try and find if you're missing a comma somewhere (maybe http://jsonlint.com may help you in that respect)

EDIT: birthday? yours?

a_5mith

@psychobunny Yeah, turned 23 on the 25th.

Right, after a few hours, I'd accidently Ctrl K'd a line out that defines the results var... :shakes head:

I'm now getting output back from discogs, however, it's definitely not right, I've thrown it into a pastebin.

_bytesDispatched: 200, _pendingData: null, _pendingEncoding: '' - Pastebin.com

Pastebin.com is the number one paste tool since 2002. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time.

Pastebin (pastebin.com)

a_5mith

Right, progress, I've got the pagination part

 {"pagination": {"per_page": 50, "items": 0, "page": 1, "urls": {}                                                                                                                     , "pages": 1}, "results": []}

However results is just [], which is the bit I need.

Ok, back at undefined, so would appear @julian's snippet didn't work for me.

a_5mith

So, I left this for a week or two, just come back to it to see if I could get it working, checked my console.log and what do you know, I have progress, I now have the output that I need (albeit all of it, not just what I specified)

{"pagination": {"per_page": 1, "items": 1, "page": 1, "urls": {}, "pages": 1}, "results": [{"style": ["Breaks", "Electro", "Drum n Bass"], "thumb": "http://api.discogs.com/image/R-90-3071347-1314359516.jpeg", "format": ["CDr", "Album", "Promo"], "country": "UK", "barcode": [], "uri": "/Noisia-Split-The-Atom/release/3071347", "community": {"have": 12, "want": 10}, "label": ["Vision Recordings"], "catno": "VSNCD001P", "year": "2010", "genre": ["Electronic"], "title": "Noisia - Split The Atom", "resource_url": "http://api.discogs.com/releases/3071347", "type": "release", "id": 3071347}]}

So my question now is what would I use to get this into the template file?

I've done {results.catno} and used @julian's earlier method of looping through, but neither works. Any ideas?

I only need bits of the info inside results. Not the pagination bit.

julian

{  
   "pagination":{  
      "per_page":1,
      "items":1,
      "page":1,
      "urls":{  

      },
      "pages":1
   },
   "results":[  
      {  
         "style":[  
            "Breaks",
            "Electro",
            "Drum n Bass"
         ],
         "thumb":"http://api.discogs.com/image/R-90-3071347-1314359516.jpeg",
         "format":[  
            "CDr",
            "Album",
            "Promo"
         ],
         "country":"UK",
         "barcode":[  

         ],
         "uri":"/Noisia-Split-The-Atom/release/3071347",
         "community":{  
            "have":12,
            "want":10
         },
         "label":[  
            "Vision Recordings"
         ],
         "catno":"VSNCD001P",
         "year":"2010",
         "genre":[  
            "Electronic"
         ],
         "title":"Noisia - Split The Atom",
         "resource_url":"http://api.discogs.com/releases/3071347",
         "type":"release",
         "id":3071347
      }
   ]
}

Just making it look nice

You'll need to work with the values in the results hash then... how come you want the data in the template file, and aren't using a hook to modify the post text like the other plugins?

a_5mith

@julian It's a card like the Github Plugin that's used here.

Users enters a category number, and it gets filled out like this:

Test_Discogs_35hz_Drum_n_Bass_Community_-_2014-08-12_14.00.59.png

julian

Oh! *facepalm* RIGHT. I forgot the GitHub embed plugin uses templates.js because I was do used to doing it the derp way (creating HTML in javascript, heh).

Here is where I pass in the issue data. Notice I am calling appModule.render, which is defined in Embed.init.

Got a repo I can check out? Would be easier than going through the list of how a template can be done wrong (no offense @psychobunny )

a_5mith

@julian Repo can be found heyarrr

julian

Is it up to date, and can I mess around with it?

Edit: I'm spending my morning uninstalling Apps from my phone because it's just unbearable now 3 minutes to open the keyboard? *REALLY?

a_5mith

@julian Yes, and yes.

julian

ಠ_ಠ

a_5mith

@julian I was going a bit psycho changing things until something worked.

julian

I think I know what went wrong... standby.

Edit: K, go for it: https://github.com/a5mith/nodebb-plugin-discogs/pull/2

a_5mith

@julian Sweet, thanks a lot Julian, only issue I've got left is the image(also in your screenshot), the api states that to get the image, you must authenticate yourelf.

I have a consumer key & secret which I believe is all I need, just not sure where to put them.