How to format Mongoose debug output - pretty print - node.js

How can I make Mongoose debug output look pretty in console? Currently the output is displayed on one line.

Here is something I put together, maybe somebody will find it useful.
Install colors module for node.js (this is optional):
npm install colors
Then in your file:
var colors = require('colors');
mongoose.set('debug', function (collectionName, method, query, doc) {
console.log(
'Mongoose: '.cyan +
collectionName +
'.' +
method +
' (' +
JSON.stringify(query, null, 2) + ')');
});

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const usage inside for loop, why this behaviour?

I have a for loop in my nodejs code
const saveDocument = co.wrap(function *(documentData, user, locale) {
var now = moment();
var creationDateLongString = now.format("YYYYMMDDHHmmss");
var creationDateShortString = now.format("YYYYMMDD");
var outputChildFolder = documentData.code + '_' + creationDateLongString + '_' + documentCounter;
var outputFolder = config.files.incomingDocumentsDir + '/' + outputChildFolder;
++documentCounter;
yield fs.mkdir(outputFolder)
var xmlFileName = documentData.code + "-" + creationDateLongString + ".xml";
var pdfFileName = documentData.code + "-" + creationDateLongString + ".pdf";
const pages = [];
for(var index=0;index < documentData.pages.length; ++index) {
const page = documentData.pages[index];
var data = new Buffer(page, "base64");
var dataEncoding = imageType(data).mime === "image/png" ? "png" : "jpg";
var fileName = "page" + index + "." + dataEncoding;
var targetFilePath = outputFolder + "/" + fileName
yield fs.writeFile(targetFilePath,data);
pages.push(fileName);
}
...
}
What I don't understand is why in the above code page only gets assigned once, on the first iteration, and holds that same value during the other iterations. So if I have 5 pages I end up 5 times with the data of the first page in that variable.
I am running node 4 without any special arguments or postprocessor. Simply npm run ... which maps to a node src/main/myApp.js in my package.json
I am probably missing something simple here but I've never seen this before when doing client side ES6 code. The big difference of course being that the client side code goes through Babel + Webpack and the server side code is ran directly through node.
Small addendum: if you are wondering why the "old school" for syntax and not something along the lines of pages.forEach(...., it's because this is existing code where I just did a few minor modifications.
This will work as you are expecting in strict mode. Try adding...
"use strict";
You will only see this behavior in environments (like Node) that actually respect and enforce the keyword. Babel simply converts all let and const to var right now to provide ES5 compatibility. To demonstrate, take a look at this Babel example. You can see in the output that const has been changed to var

fs.watch unexpected behavior

If I run the below program as node watcher.js file.txt, then it works as expected when I touch file.txt. But if I open file.txt in vim and save, then it ceases to detect future modifications to the file. This seems really weird to me, why does this behavior occur?
var fs = require('fs');
var args = process.argv;
if (args.length <= 2) {
console.log('USAGE: ' + args[1] + ' filename');
process.exit(1);
}
var filename = args[2];
fs.watch(filename, function(event, filename) {
console.log('file ' + filename + ' changed!');
});
It is important to inspect the content of the first argument, not just the filename. The issue is that event can be either 'change' OR 'rename'.
In this case, it looks like vim is actually renaming the old file and making a new one.

Is 7zip stdout broken? Is there a way to capture the progress in nodejs? [Windows]

I am trying to get the stdout of 7zip when it processes files and get the percentage in nodeJs, but it doesn't behave as expected. 7zip doesn't output anything to stdout until the very end of the execution. Which is not very helpful.. especially when I have large files being compressed and no feedback is shown for a very long time.
The code I am using (simplified):
// 7zip test, place the 7z.exe in the same dir, if it's not on %PATH%
var cp = require('child_process');
var inputFile = process.argv[2]; if(inputFile==null) return;
var regProgress = /(\d{1,3})%\s*$/; //get the last percentage of the string, 3 digits
var proc = cp.spawn("7z.exe",["a","-t7z" ,"-y" ,inputFile + ".7z",inputFile]);
proc.stdout.setEncoding("utf8");
proc.stdout.on("data",function(data){
if(regProgress.test(data))
console.log("Progress = " + regProgress.exec(data)[1] + "%");
});
proc.once("exit",function(exit,sig){ console.log("Complete"); });
I have used the same code to get the percentage with WinRar successfully and I am beginning to think that 7zip might be buggy? Or I am doing it wrong? Can I forcefully read the stdout of a process with a timer perhaps?
The same code above, with the exception of the following line replaced, works as expected with WinRar.
var proc = cp.spawn("Rar.exe",["a","-s","-ma5","-o+",inputFile+".rar",inputFile]);
If anyone knows why this happens and if it is fixable, I would be grateful! :-)
p.s. I have tried 7za.exe, the command line version of 7zip, also the stable, beta and alpha versions, they all have the same issue
It is no longer needed to use a terminal emulator like pty.js, you can pass the -bsp1 to 7z to force to output the progress to stdout.
7-zip only outputs progress when stdout is a terminal.
To trick 7-zip, you need to npm install pty.js (requires Visual Studio or VS Express with Windows SDK) and then use code like:
var pty = require('pty');
var inputFile = process.argv[2],
pathTo7zip = 'c:\\Program Files\\7-Zip\\7z.exe';
if (inputFile == null)
return;
var term = pty.spawn(process.env.ComSpec, [], {
name: 'ansi',
cols: 200,
rows: 30,
cwd: process.env.HOME,
env: process.env
});
var rePrg = /(\d{1,3})%\r\n?/g,
reEsc = /\u001b\[\w{2}/g,
reCwd = new RegExp('^' + process.cwd().replace(/\\/g, '\\\\'), 'm');
prompts = 0,
buffer = '';
term.on('data', function(data) {
var m, idx;
buffer += data;
// remove terminal escape sequences
buffer = buffer.replace(reEsc, '');
// check for multiple progress indicators in the current buffer
while (m = rePrg.exec(buffer)) {
idx = m.index + m[0].length;
console.log(m[1] + ' percent done!');
}
// check for the cmd.exe prompt
if (m = reCwd.exec(buffer)) {
if (++prompts === 2) {
// command is done
return term.kill();
} else {
// first prompt is before we started the actual 7-zip process
if (idx === undefined) {
// we didn't see a progress indicator, so make sure to truncate the
// prompt from our buffer so that we don't accidentally detect the same
// prompt twice
buffer = buffer.substring(m.index + m[0].length);
return;
}
}
}
// truncate the part of our buffer that we're done processing
if (idx !== undefined)
buffer = buffer.substring(idx);
});
term.write('"'
+ pathTo7zip
+ '" a -t7z -y "'
+ inputFile
+ '.7z" "'
+ inputFile
+ '"\r');
It should be noted that 7-zip does not always output 100% at finish. If the file compresses quickly, you may just see only a single 57% for example, so you will have to handle that however you want.

Adding color to repl prompt (node)

I find that adding color to the prompt in repl really helps to separate the outputs. I achieved this by using NPM's chalk, but this adds a bunch of space between the prompt and the cursor.
var term = repl.start({
prompt: chalk.blue('goose> '),
eval: function(cmd, context, filename, cb){
...
}
});
The prompt comes out like this ('|' is the cursor):
goose> |
Any ideas on how to fix?
It turns out to be very simple:
var prompt = 'My fancy prompt >>> ';
rl.setPrompt(chalk.blue(prompt), prompt.length);
You need to specify the count of characters because readline doesn't understand that escape sequences are really displayed as zero width.
(This is based on Felix's answer.)
Run this before repl.start():
var readline = require('readline');
var hasAnsi = require('has-ansi');
var stripAnsi = require('strip-ansi');
var _setPrompt = readline.Interface.prototype.setPrompt;
readline.Interface.prototype.setPrompt = function() {
if (arguments.length === 1 && hasAnsi(arguments[0])) {
return _setPrompt.call(this, arguments[0], stripAnsi(arguments[0]).length);
} else {
return _setPrompt.apply(this, arguments);
}
};
Dependencies: npm install has-ansi strip-ansi

Meteor/Node writeFile crashes server

I have the following code:
Meteor.methods({
saveFile: function(blob, name, path, encoding) {
var path = cleanPath(path), fs = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('fs'),
name = cleanName(name || 'file'), encoding = encoding || 'binary',
chroot = Meteor.chroot || 'public';
// Clean up the path. Remove any initial and final '/' -we prefix them-,
// any sort of attempt to go to the parent directory '..' and any empty directories in
// between '/////' - which may happen after removing '..'
path = chroot + (path ? '/' + path + '/' : '/');
// TODO Add file existance checks, etc...
fs.writeFile(path + name, blob, encoding, function(err) {
if (err) {
throw (new Meteor.Error(500, 'Failed to save file.', err));
} else {
console.log('The file ' + name + ' (' + encoding + ') was saved to ' + path);
}
});
function cleanPath(str) {
if (str) {
return str.replace(/\.\./g,'').replace(/\/+/g,'').
replace(/^\/+/,'').replace(/\/+$/,'');
}
}
function cleanName(str) {
return str.replace(/\.\./g,'').replace(/\//g,'');
}
}
});
Which I took from this project
https://gist.github.com/dariocravero/3922137
The code works fine, and it saves the file, however it repeats the call several time and each time it causes meteor to reset using windows version 0.5.4. The F12 console ends up looking like this: . The meteor console loops over the startup code each time the 503 happens and repeats the console logs in the saveFile function.
Furthermore in the target directory the image thumbnail keeps displaying and then display as broken, then a valid thumbnail again, as if the fs is writing it multiple times.
Here is the code that calls the function:
"click .savePhoto":function(e, template){
e.preventDefault();
var MAX_WIDTH = 400;
var MAX_HEIGHT = 300;
var id = e.srcElement.id;
var item = Session.get("employeeItem");
var file = template.find('input[name='+id+']').files[0];
// $(template).append("Loading...");
var dataURL = '/.bgimages/'+file.name;
Meteor.saveFile(file, file.name, "/.bgimages/", function(){
if(id=="goodPhoto"){
EmployeeCollection.update(item._id, { $set: { good_photo: dataURL }});
}else{
EmployeeCollection.update(item._id, { $set: { bad_photo: dataURL }});
}
// Update an image on the page with the data
$(template.find('img.'+id)).delay(1000).attr('src', dataURL);
});
},
What's causing the server to reset?
My guess would be that since Meteor has a built-in "automatic directories scanning in search for file changes", in order to implement auto relaunching of the application to newest code-base, the file you are creating is actually causing the server reset.
Meteor doesn't scan directories beginning with a dot (so called "hidden" directories) such as .git for example, so you could use this behaviour to your advantage by setting the path of your files to a .directory of your own.
You should also consider using writeFileSync insofar as Meteor methods are intended to run synchronously (inside node fibers) contrary to the usual node way of asynchronous calls, in this code it's no big deal but for example you couldn't use any Meteor mechanics inside the writeFile callback.
asynchronousCall(function(error,result){
if(error){
// handle error
}
else{
// do something with result
Collection.update(id,result);// error ! Meteor code must run inside fiber
}
});
var result=synchronousCall();
Collection.update(id,result);// good to go !
Of course there is a way to turn any asynchronous call inside a synchronous one using fibers/future, but that's beyond the point of this question : I recommend reading this EventedMind episode on node future to understand this specific area.

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