部署时使用npm包出现流星错误

Question

So I was attempting to print PDF's to the client using a NPM package called html-pdf, locally everything works beautifully. I used a round about way to do this, I use Meteor.call to call a server method that then takes the buffered output from the pdf and sticks it in a collection. I use an autosubscribe to listen for a new pdf with the current user id then use a package to save the pdf to the browser. important code pieces below:

client/helpers.js

Meteor.autosubscribe(function() {
PdfsCollection.find().observe({
    added: function(item){
        var blob = new Blob([item.pdf], {type: 'application/pdf'});
        console.log('new pdf found');
        saveAs(blob, 'test.pdf');
        PdfsCollection.remove({_id: item._id});
    }
});
});

client/templates/quotes/quotes.js:

Template.QuotesEdit.events({
"click #pdf" : function(event, template) {

    var html = Blaze.toHTML(Blaze.With(template.data, function() { return Template.QuotePrint; }));
    Meteor.call('createPDF', html, Meteor.userId());

}
});

server/pdf.js:

Meteor.methods({
createPDF: function(html, userId) {
    var pdf = Meteor.npmRequire('html-pdf');

    pdf.create(html).toBuffer(Meteor.bindEnvironment(function(err,buffer) {
        PdfsCollection.insert({userId: userId, pdf: buffer});
    }));
  }
});

The part that is causing the error is when I actually call pdf.create. There are two errors, in the server log I get this:

[Wed Apr 08 2015 03:23:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)] WARNING events.js:72
throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
^
[Wed Apr 08 2015 03:23:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)] WARNING Error: write EPIPE
at errnoException (net.js:905:11)
at Object.afterWrite (net.js:721:19)
[Wed Apr 08 2015 03:23:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)] ERROR Application crashed with code: 8
[Wed Apr 08 2015 03:23:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)] NOTICE Starting application on port 9000
[Wed Apr 08 2015 03:23:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)] INFO STATUS running -> starting
[Wed Apr 08 2015 03:23:16 GMT+0000 (UTC)] INFO STATUS starting -> running

and in the browser console there is this:

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oLxjjRxydCC5AuDig:1 XMLHttpRequest cannot load https://ddp--3484-metcrm.meteor.com/sockjs/info?cb=qtrpq640d2. No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource. Origin 'http://metcrm.meteor.com' is therefore not allowed access. The response had HTTP status code 503.

I have now racked my brains for 3 hours trying to find the source of this working on my local server but not on Meteor. The two important packages here are: meteorhacks:npm (for using npm packages in meteor) pfafman:filesaver (for the saveas function I am using)

Please any help is appreciated!

Answer 1

I found that this was actually caused by file permissions for the temp file that was being created on meteor.com hosting. I deployed to Modulus.io and all is working as expected.