Next is not defined next(err)

Question

    var fs = require('fs');
    var path = require('path');
    var walk = require('walk');
    var xml2js = require('xml2js');

    var jsonDir ;
    var convertXml = function (xml_dir, json_dir) {
        jsonDir =  json_dir;

        var walker = walk.walk(xml_dir, { followLinks: true });
        walker.on("errors", fDirWalkError);
        walker.on("end", fDirWalkEnd);
        walker.on("file", fDirWalkFile);

    }

    function fDirWalkError (err) {
        console.log ("fDirWalkError: " + err);
        next (err);
    }

    function fDirWalkEnd  () {
        console.log ("======= End of directory walk");
    }

    function fDirWalkFile (root, fileStat, next) {
        if (fileStat.name.indexOf(".xml") < 0) {
            console.log ("skipping file " + fileStat.name + " (does not end in .xml)");
            return;
        } else {
            var xml_file = path.resolve(root, fileStat.name);
            console.log ("xml file: " + xml_file);

            fs.readFile('xml_file', function (err, data) {
                if (err) {
                    console.log ("error reading file:" + xml_file);
                    next (err);
                }
                xml2js.parseString (data, function (err, json_obj) {
                    if (err) {
                        console.log (err);
                        next (err);
                    }
                    var json_string = JSON.stringify(json_obj, null, 2);
                    var json_file = path.resolve (jsonDir, path.basename(xml_file).replace(/\.xml$/, ".json"));
                    console.log ("json file: ", json_file);

                    fs.writeFile(json_file, json_string, "utf8", function (err) {
                        if (err) {
                            console.log ("error converting yin (%s) to json(%s)", xml_file, json_file);
                            next (new Error ("error converting xml(" + xml_file + ") to json(" + json_file + ")"));
                        }
                        else {
                            console.log ("Converted xml (%s) to json(%s)", xml_file, json_file);
                        }
                    });
                });
            });
        }
        next ();
    }

module.exports.convertXml = convertXml;




var path = require ('path'); 
var xml2js = require ('./xml2js');
console.log ("__dirname: " + __dirname); 
var templateDir = path.resolve (__dirname); 
var xmlDir = path.resolve (templateDir, "xml");
var jsonDir = path.resolve (templateDir, "jsons"); 
console.log( templateDir); 
xml2js.convertXml (xmlDir, jsonDir)

/Users//Documents/GitHub//xml2js.js:19 next (err); ^

ReferenceError: next is not defined at Walker.fDirWalkError (/Users//Documents/GitHub//xml2js.js:19:9) at Walker.emit (events.js:321:20) at Walker._wPostFilesHandler (/UsersDocuments/GitHub//node_modules/walk/lib/walk.js:134:10) at /Users//Documents/GitHub//node_modules/foreachasync/forEachAsync.js:15:16 at Array.forEach () at Walker.next [as _wCurFileCallback] (/Users//Documents/GitHub/node_modules/foreachasync/forEachAsync.js:14:15) at Walker._wLstatHandler (/Users//Documents/GitHub//node_modules/walk/lib/walk.js:84:10) at /Users//Documents/GitHub//node_modules/walk/lib/walk.js:106:12

Answer 1

depends on the walk documentation at https://www.npmjs.com/package/walk

the next param is the third param that the event send

in your case you are using

function fDirWalkError (err) {
    console.log ("fDirWalkError: " + err);
    next (err);
}

but you didnt get next function from the module in your function args

try to put it in your handler args

like this

function fDirWalkError (err, nodeStatsArray, next) {
    console.log ("fDirWalkError: " + err);
    next (err);
}

it should work