AngularJS - How to send multidimensional $http.get() data - get

So I have a JSON array that looks something like this:
var myData = {
foo : {
biz : 'baz',
fig : 'tree'
}
}
This could be typed into the address bar like:
http://www.mysite.com/index?foo[biz]=baz&foo[fig]=tree
And this will work as expected.
The problem is that when I supply this myData object to AngularJS's $http service like:
$http.get('http://www.mysite.com', {
data : myData
});
It escapes the query string and doesn't appear to even be the right format even if it weren't esaped in the weird way it is. It looks something like:
url?foo=%7B%22biz%22%3A%22baz%22%2C%22fig%22%3A%22tree%22%7D
How can I make this work?

This is actually in the right format. Assuming your back-end is PHP, when you do $_GET['foo'] you will get %7B%22biz%22%3A%22baz%22%2C%22fig%22%3A%22tree%22%7D. The strange characters you see are because Angular is url encoding the string for you. This has to be done before transmitting the data. If you type it out as foo[biz]=baz&foo[fig]=tree in your browser, the browser usually urlencodes it automatically.
After urldecoding and json_decoding this, you will get the data you expect.
$foo = json_decode(urldecode($input), true);
Array
(
[biz] => baz
[fig] => tree
)
You can then access these as $foo['biz'] and $foo['fig']
Demo

Related

populate object properties using lambda expression in typescript

Newbie Alert! I feel silly asking this question but I need someone to teach me the correct syntax.
I have code that looks like this:
let thing: INewThing;
thing.personId = another.personId;
thing.address = another.work.address;
thing.greades = another.subjectInfo.grades;
thing.isCurrent = another.student.isCurrent;
I know it can be written cleaner. I want to use a lamda expression, something like this:
let thing: INewThing => {
personId = another.personId,
address = another.work.address,
grades = another.subjectInfo.grades,
isCurrent = another.student.isCurrent
} as IThingUpdate;
I have looked and looked for an example. I have yet to find one that works for me. It's just syntax but no matter what I try it doesn't work.
You're just looking to create a new object, which is a pretty different thing from a "lambda" (function). Just declare the object. You don't need a function.
const thing = {
personId: another.personId,
address: another.work.address,
// use the correct spelling below - no 'greades'
grades: another.subjectInfo.grades,
isCurrent: another.student.isCurrent,
};
If the another is typed properly, that should be sufficient.
If the another object had more properties using the same path, another option would be to destructure those properties out, then declare the object with shorthand, eg:
const originalObj = { prop: 'val', nested: { foo: 'foo', bar: 'bar', unwanted: 'unwanted' } };
const { foo, bar } = originalObj.nested;
const thing = { foo, bar };
Destructuring like this, without putting the values into differently-named properties, helps reduce typos - if a property starts out, for example, as someLongPropertyName, putting it into a standalone identifier someLongPropertyName and then constructing an object with shorthand syntax ensures that the new object also has the exact property name someLongPropertyName (and not, for example, someLongPRopertyName - which isn't that uncommon of a mistake when using the more traditional object declaration format).
But since all the paths in your another object are different, this approach wouldn't work well in this particular situation.

How to add multiline painless code in nodejs

So in my js-code I have this line:
var _script = {
_script: {
script: {
lang: 'painless',
source: `
"""
if(1>2){
params._source.id;
}
else{
params._source.id;
}
"""
`
},
type: 'string',
order: params._source.id
}
}
This will fail. I see in the log this error message:
,\"reason\":\"unexpected token ['\\\"\\\\n if(1>2){\\\\n params._source.id;\\\\n }\\\\n else{\\\\n params._source.id;\\\\n }\\\\n \\\"'] was expecting one of [{<EOF>, ';'}].\"}}}]},
I have tried first to have without tilde-character. And then it also fails.
I then tried to have tilde at the beginning, something like:
var _script = `{
Thing is that the final json that will be sent to elastic is not shown in the code above. So "_script" is only a little part of all the json.
I was wondering if I added the tilde at the very beginning and end of the whole json. Maybe it could work? I need to work it out where it is.
But just in theory: do you think the problem is there? Putting the tilde around all the json? Or is it something else?
The triple " is not valid JSON, it only works internally to the Elastic stack (i.e. from Kibana Dev Tools to ES).
The way I usually do it from Node.js is to add each line to an array and then I join that array, like this:
const code = [];
code.push("if(1>2){");
code.push("params._source.id;");
code.push("} else {");
code.push("params._source.id;");
code.push("}");
source = code.join(" ");
It's not super legible, I admit. Another way is to use stored scripts so you can simple reference your script by ID in Node.js.

Jade/Pug - appending to a class name

Hello I have a unique id in an object and I want to append it to a class name. I am trying to do something like the following but it isn't working:
myJadeFile:
.googleChartContainer-#{attendanceAnalytics.uid}
myRoute.js:
res.render('./edu/school_dashboard_elementary', { attendanceAnalytics:attendanceChart });
I suppose I could create a class name in my route and send it as a variable with something like:
var className = '.googleChartContainer-attendanceChart.uid}';
res.render('./edu/school_dashboard_elementary', { attendanceAnalytics:attendanceChart, attendanceClassName:className });
and then in the jade file:
#{attendanceClassName} //- output is .googleChartContainer-someUid?
I was wondering if there was a way to get the first approach to work correctly, or if there is another preferred way.
Thanks!
You have two choices. You can do it the JavaScript way with a string, like:
div(id=attendanceAnalytics.uid, class='googleChartContainer-' + attendanceAnalytics.uid)
or you create an JavaScript object containing keys and values to use them with the typical jade attribute div&attribute(object), like this:
- var attr = {"id": attendanceAnalytics.uid, "class": 'googleChartContainer-' + attendanceAnalytics.uid}
div&attribute(attr)
Take a look into the JadeLang Docs, chapter attributes.

node ejs reference error data not defined at eval when handing data to view

i've been closing in on a node application using express and ejs, but when i try to hand data to my view from the controller like so
var myData = {
theData: data
};
res.render(path.join(__dirname + '/../views/index'), myData);
i get a nice error
ReferenceError:.. myData is not defined eval (from ejs lib)
when trying to access myData in the view like so
var data = <%-myData%>;
or in any other way basically, i've tried stringifying the data, wrapping it in another object and stuff like that but it still just won't show up, i have the feeling i'm missing something really basic here, does anyone have an idea on how to fix this?
The second argument you pass to render() is an object containing the view variables you want to use in your template. So the error you are seeing makes sense. If you want to use myData in that way you'd have to do something like this in your controller/app:
res.render(..., { myData: JSON.stringify(myData) });
There's a silly mistake I make when I try to send data from the server.
Here's the mistake:
var data = <%=myData%>;
What you should do when passing it:
var data = <%-myData%>;
It's supposed to be a dash NOT an equal before the variable name.
If your are generating the template with the HtmlWebpackPlugin plugin, the data should be passed in your webpack configuration file, along with the templateParameters property.
For example:
...
plugins: [
new HtmlWebpackPlugin({
filename: __dirname + "/src/views/index.ejs",
template: "./src/views/index_template.ejs",
templateParameters: {
myData,
},
}),
],
...

Cannot access properties on a populate()'d object from Mongoose?

This is very odd... I'm using populate() with a ref to fill in an array within my schema, but then the properties are inaccessible. In other words, the schema is like this:
new Model('User',{
'name': String,
'installations': [ {type: String, ref: 'Installations'} ],
'count': Number,
}
Of course, Insallations is another model.
Then I find & populate a set of users...
model.find({count: 0}).populate('installations').exec( function(e, d){
for(var k in d)
{
var user = d[k];
for(var i in user.installations)
{
console.log(user.installations[i]);
}
}
} );
So far so good! I see nice data printed out, like this:
{ runs: 49,
hardware: 'macbookpro10,1/x86_64',
mode: 'debug',
version: '0.1' }
However, if I try to actually ACCESS any of those properties, they're all undefined! For example, if I add another console log:
console.log(user.installations[i].mode);
Then I see "undefined" printed for this log.
If I try to operate on the object, like this:
Object.keys(user.installations[i]).forEach(function(key) { } );
Then I get a typical "[TypeError: Object.keys called on non-object]" error, indicating that user.installations[i] is not an object (even though it is outputted to the console as if it were). So, I even tried something ugly like...
var install = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(user.installations[i]));
console.log(install, install.mode);
And, again, the first output (install) is a nice object containing the property 'mode'... but the 2nd output is undefined.
What gives?
Finally, I solved this...
I tried doing a console.log(typeof user.installations[i]); and got "string" as the output. This seemed odd, given that printing the object directly created console output (above) that looked like a normal object, not a string. So, I tried doing a JSON.parse(); on the object, but received the error "SyntaxError: Unexpected token r"
Finally, I realized what was going on. The "pretty console output" I described above was the result of a string formatted with \n (newlines). I had not expected that, for whatever reason. The JSON.parse() error is due to the fact that there is a known necessity with the node.js parser when attempting to parse object keys without quotations; see the SO question here:
Why does JSON.parse('{"key" : "value"}') do just fine but JSON.parse('{key : "value"}') doesn't? .
Specifically, note that the JSON parser in my case is failing on the character 'r', the fist character of "runs," which is the first key in my JSON string (above). At first I was afraid I needed to get a custom JSON parser, but then the problem hit me.
Look back to my original schema. I used a String-type to define the installation ref, because the array field was storing the installations's _id property as a String. I assume the .populate() field is converting the object to a String on output.
Finally, I looked at the Mongoose docs a little closer and realized I'm supposed to be referencing the objects based upon Schema.ObjectID. This explains everything, but certainly gives me some fixing to do in my schemas and code elsewhere...

Resources