Questions on how to do a basic javascript / node.js HTTP post? Using the request library

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Followup #2 : I think this is 99% "my bad" for not properly using a callback (that calls a callback that calls a callback...) idiom of node.js. When I refactor it properly everything seems to work, even in IntelliJ. I even figured out a way to arrange the callback functions that seems vaguely sane to a java programmer. Not sure why it worked on the command line but probably something with how node.js handles the threading/asynch stuff.

Not sure if I should delete this entire question or not.

original question follows:

I'm a veteran Java programmer with next to zero experience in Javascript, node.js, or request. I want to do a basic HTTP GET (and eventually a POST). Mikeal's request framework ( https://github.com/mikeal/request ) looks reasonable. But I can't figure out how to get the response into a variable so it can then be parsed. His examples all have it going to the console.

My code is

var Request = require('request');
var ggg;
Request.get('http://www.google.com', function (error, response, body) {
        console.log(body) // Print the google web page.
        ggg = body;

});

I'm running it in the IntelliJ Webstorm7 debugger. I set a breakpoint within the callback, (at the ggg = body line) which never gets triggered. And, for the record, the console isn't logging anything either. At a breakpoint after this code, ggg is listed as "undefined".

Not sure if this is my misunderstanding, a weirdness in IntelliJ, or that the request library just doesn't work.

Followup : I think something in my intellij is messed up. When I run this code from the command line via node nameoffile.js is seems to work.

Answer 1

Well actually first of all do

npm list

and check if you have request installed...else install using

npm install request

Then you have a simple bug in your code.Your are missing a semicolon after console.log

console.log(body);