Question

request = require('request')

auth =
url: ''
method: 'POST'
json:
  credentials:
  username: ""
  key: ""

exports = exports ? this

request auth, (err, res, body) ->
  exports.inside = body

console.log(exports.inside)

Then above is Coffeescript with the request module for Node.js. I cannot figure out how to get the data inside of the request function out. This has been a major road-block for my application.

Thank you!

** EDIT**

Vadim Baryshev’s update with code did it! Thank you so much 🙂 !

Answer 1

You are trying to output exports.inside before it have been assigned in request function callback. Because request function is asynchronous. You can get result of this function via callback or event.

Update:

request = require('request')

exports = exports ? this

getAuth = (callback) ->
  auth =
  url: ''
  method: 'POST'
  json:
    credentials:
      username: ""
      key: ""

  request auth, (err, res, body) ->
    exports.inside = body
    callback err, body

getAuth (err, body) ->
  # here is exports.inside ready
  console.log exports.inside
  # also you can access body and request error arguments here
  # body === exports.inside here
  # err is request error (is null/undifined if request is successful)