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Kyriediculous
Kyriediculous

Reputation: 119

request-promise returns undefined but exists

Trying to do a request through request-promise but it's not working properly.

See the comment below.

Can somebody explain this PiA to me?

Thanks in advance

var todayOptions = { uri: `http://mlb.mlb.com/gdcross/components/game/mlb/year_${year}/month_${month}/day_${day}/master_scoreboard.json`, 
                     simple: false, 
                     resolveWithFullResponse: true
};

rp(todayOptions)
  .then(function (response){
    console.log(response.body); //RETURNS BODY
    console.log(response.body.data); //RETURNS UNDEFINED EVEN THOUGH IT EXISTS
 })
  .catch(function(error){
    console.log(error);
  });

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3956

Answers (3)

Rudy Hinojosa
Rudy Hinojosa

Reputation: 1468

If this still doesn't work for you, as it didn't for me, try adding this to your options:

encoding: 'utf8'

That fixed everything for me. You don't even have to mess with json.parse or json.stringify compounding. The response is already a json object if you already have json: true in your options.

Upvotes: 0

stdob--
stdob--

Reputation: 29172

You need set json option to true:

var todayOptions = { uri: `http://mlb.mlb.com/gdcross/components/game/mlb/year_${year}/month_${month}/day_${day}/master_scoreboard.json`, 
                     simple: false, 
                     resolveWithFullResponse: true,
                     json: true
};

Upvotes: 4

Kyle Richardson
Kyle Richardson

Reputation: 5645

My bet is response.body is a stringified JSON object. Try parsing it. request-promise returns a stringified object sometimes.

console.log(JSON.parse(response.body).data);

Upvotes: 3

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