A question regarding my next plugin

julian

There shouldn't be any need to funnel all requests into their OAuth flow, especially since you're doing this server-side. Is there any way for you to generate a token in the Discogs API settings, instead of having to step through and authorize yourself?

http://www.discogs.com/developers/#page:authentication,header:authentication-access-token-url

a_5mith

@julian Apparently, you can change

http://api.discogs.com/image/R-90-5920911-1406378530-1731.jpeg

to http://s.pixogs.com/image/R-90-5920911-1406378530-1731.jpeg

And you get the correct image, but I'm not sure how that would be changed, as the API gives you the full URL.

julian

var imageUrl = whatever;
imageUrl.replace('api.discogs', 's.pixogs');

a_5mith

@julian Yes that would work.

a_5mith

@julian said:

var imageUrl = whatever;
imageUrl.replace('api.discogs', 's.pixogs');

Object #<Object> has no method 'replace'

I didn't actually use whatever, but it was either a not defined error, or this one. I also tried using things like

$('img[src="http://api.discogs.com"]').attr('src','http://s.pixogs.com');

But nothing changed.

julian

Sounds like the image url isn't actually a string... try typeof imageUrl to find out what it is.

a_5mith

@julian What do I do with that? We can't all be as smart as you Julian.

julian

Ah yes... compliments can only get you so far

var imageUrl = whatever;
// imageUrl.replace('api.discogs', 's.pixogs');
console.log('@@@@@ omgomgomg, the image is of type: ', typeof imageUrl);

It should be a string. It seems it isn't. Maybe it's an Array?

a_5mith

@julian Can I just clarify where the best place to put this is? Also, whatever; is undefined.

Ok, so I did

var imageUrl = [];
// imageUrl.replace('api.discogs', 's.pixogs');
console.log('@@@@@ omgomgomg, the image is of type: ', typeof imageUrl);

and it comes back as object.

Same if I do {}

Everything else comes back as undefined. I even tried worknowplskthx

julian

Mmm.. this is what I get back from discogs (it's in the albumData variable now):

{ style: [ 'Drum n Bass' ],
  thumb: 'http://api.discogs.com/image/R-90-3514574-1343107301-6843.jpeg',
  format: [ 'Vinyl', 'LP' ],
  country: 'UK, Europe & US',
  ...

So, you can get the image url: var imageUrl = albumData.thumb

... and replace it with the new CDN url: imageUrl = imageUrl.replace('api.discogs', 's.pixogs');

... or all-in-one: var imageUrl = albumData.thumb.replace('api.discogs', 's.pixogs');

a_5mith

@julian And where's the best place to add this? I'm getting albumData is undefined.

julian

albumData here? https://github.com/a5mith/nodebb-plugin-discogs/blob/579186035c9db7911ab230044a2bcdea5f4a32fa/index.js#L27

I don't know how much it has changed in the interim

a_5mith

Okay, I got it.

I did this instead:

callback(null, {
                uri: albumData.uri,
                thumbnail: albumData.thumb.replace('api.discogs.com/image/R-90-', 's.pixogs.com/image/R-'),
                catno: albumData.catno,
                title: albumData.title,
                style: Array.isArray(albumData.style) ? albumData.style[0] : albumData.style,
                label: Array.isArray(albumData.label) ? albumData.label[0] : albumData.label,
                year: albumData.year
            });

a_5mith

OK, works great, one teeny tiny issue.

How do I stop it crashing while people type the discog number in?

TypeError: Cannot read property 'uri' of undefined
at Request._callback (/home/a_5mith/35hz/node_modules/nodebb-plugin-discogs/index.js:30:35)
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)

Should add that's the first callback action.

As the api responds with 200, even if there's no data. Is there was way of backing out if uri is undefined. Rather than crashing.

psychobunny

Maybe

  var albumData = JSON.parse(body).results[0];

  if (!albumData) {
    return callback(null, {});
  }

  callback(null, {
    uri: albumData.uri,

julian

If all discog numbers follow a pattern, you can also tailor the regular expression to only evaluate to true if a certain condition is met (character length, etc)

a_5mith

@julian Unfortunately they weren't, but @psychobunny's suggestion worked a treat.