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Cmag
Cmag

Reputation: 15770

JavaScript Express returning empty JSON

Folks, I have a function that creates an Object that I would like to return back to the browser. For some reason, the browser is getting an empty Object without the contents:

{
    pName: [ ]
}

Here is the object via console.log(require('util').inspect(projectObject, false, 10));

{ pName:
    [ foo:
        [ nodejs: 
            [ staging: 
                [ 
                    { name: 'i-4a14c51a', id: 'i-4a14c51a' },
                    { name: 'i-19fc094a', id: 'i-19fc094a' },
                ],
              production: 
                [ 
                    { name: 'i-5f14c50f', id: 'i-5f14c50f' },
                    { name: 'i-b1fb0ee2', id: 'i-b1fb0ee2' },
                ]
            ]
       ],
...

I would imagine the reason its not returning the object is because it thinks that the first entity is empty.

Where am I making the mistake? The result needs to look liks:

"hosts": [
{
  "projectA": [
     {
       "foo": [
          {
            "nodejs": [
          {
        "production": [
                       {
                         "name": "Her blog",
                         "cmd": "ssh [email protected]"
                       }
                    ]
                  }
                ]
              }
            ]
           }
        ]
     },
  ]

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1604

Answers (1)

Joshua
Joshua

Reputation: 6665

I believe your problem is here:

{ pName:
    [ foo: // <-- invalid JSON
        [ nodejs: 
            [ staging: 
...

If that's the output of an inspector I'd have a look at exactly how the projectObject is being constructed (are you creating an array and then assigning something to a property on it? In which case create an object instead).

I'm afraid I'm not sure how I'm expected to get to the requested result with the information available however.

Upvotes: 2

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