I'm looking for a simple way to fetch a REST API in Coffeescript and get a json. I'm using the request library. When I do that, nothing happen, no error.
request = require 'request'
resp = ""
request.get {uri:'', json : true}, (err, r, body) -> resp = body
console.log "BODY: " + resp
What do I do wrong? Do you know a better way to get a json from a REST api in coffeescript? Thanks a lot!
I'm looking for a simple way to fetch a REST API in Coffeescript and get a json. I'm using the request library. When I do that, nothing happen, no error.
request = require 'request'
resp = ""
request.get {uri:'https://api.service.co/search?query=paris', json : true}, (err, r, body) -> resp = body
console.log "BODY: " + resp
What do I do wrong? Do you know a better way to get a json from a REST api in coffeescript? Thanks a lot!
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Reset to default 4I suspect your issue is that request.get executes asynchronously, so by the time it hits the console.log statement, resp is always "".
Try this:
request = require 'request'
resp = ""
request.get {uri:'https://api.service.co/search?query=paris', json : true}, (err, r, body) ->
resp = body
console.log "BODY: " + resp