Does node.js not include packages in opkg yet?

Fred Blais

@Fred-Blais Not yet, unfortunately... But we won't stop until it's done! Getting Javascript support is something we've promised, and we'll deliver it in both Node.js and IoT.js

Have a look at this document : http://www.soscon.net/download/day28/GB2/S_28_1050_이춘석.pdf

It looks to me that IoT.js is a much more logical choice than Node.js on the Omega
JerryScript takes anywhere from 100-300kb depending on the install, the V8 javascript engine takes about 10MB.
10MB is a lot on a 16MB device... IoT.js is also Node compatible.

Boken Lin

@Philipp-Czarnetzki Seems like you are trying to compile the module for x86-64? Did you set up the cross-compile environment for Omega? node-gyp by default compiles the module for the machine you are running it on. In order to use it to compile for the Omega, you will need to tell node-gyp to compile using the Omega toolchain. You can download the Omega toolchain from here: https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/onion-cdn/community/openwrt/OpenWrt-Toolchain-ar71xx-generic_gcc-4.8-linaro_uClibc-0.9.33.2.Linux-x86_64.tar.bz2.

Boken Lin

@Fred-Blais Yes, I totally agree that IoT.js is a much better choice for embedded platforms like the Omega. I wish we had heard about it earlier Also, thanks for the link to the document. It provides quite a bit of useful information.

Philipp Czarnetzki

@Boken-Lin How Do I do this?

Boken Lin

@Philipp-Czarnetzki Have you looked at our wiki article on setting up the cross-compile environment for the Omega? If not, it's here: https://wiki.onion.io/Tutorials/Cross-Compile. Once you have that setup, you need to setup the environment variables like CC and CXX to point node-gyp to the compiler for cross compilation. To compile you will need to use node-gyp --arch mips configure build, however, bear in mind that most modules out there probably don't have MIPS architecture support designed, you might need to manually port over some stuff if you see some error during your compilation.

Philipp Czarnetzki

@Boken-Lin I have compiled my module for MIPS Arch but now i get a "File not found" Error from node if i want to require it.

root@Omega-XXXX:/mnt/sda1/test/build/Release# node`
> var hello = require('./hello')
Error: File not found                                                                                                                                                                         
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)                                                                                                                                                         
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)                                                                                                                                               
    at Module.require (module.js:364:17)                                                                                                                                                      
    at require (module.js:380:17)                                                                                                                                                             
    at repl:1:13                                                                                                                                                                              
    at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:110:21)                                                                                                                                                  
    at repl.js:249:20                                                                                                                                                                         
    at REPLServer.self.eval (repl.js:122:7)                                                                                                                                                   
    at Interface.<anonymous> (repl.js:239:12)                                                                                                                                                 
    at Interface.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)

Chris Ward

@Philipp-Czarnetzki where did you put the hello file? Accessing it with ./hello would mean that a file called 'hello' without a .js is being looked for in the same folder you executed the command in.

Boken Lin

@Philipp-Czarnetzki Did you place the module inside a folder called node_modules?

Chris Ward

Node file/directory/module loading
https://nodejs.org/api/modules.html

Philipp Czarnetzki

@Boken-Lin Nope i copied the entire folder containing the compiled hello world example and launched a repl in the folder that i posted above.

Boken Lin

@Philipp-Czarnetzki I think in order to require a module, you will need to put it in node_modules directory. If you just have the hello directory, you should try require('./hello/hello');.

Philipp Czarnetzki

@Boken-Lin I've placed it in a hello folder within node_modules but if i require it like you said i get a Module/File not found, i also placed a package.json in there but it wont work

Boken Lin

@Philipp-Czarnetzki Did you change the name of your JS file in the hello folder to index.js? I believe that's the default file name for the require system to start looking.

Steve Fister

@Boken-Lin Ok, so I'm having an issue running a node package on the Omega. Node works fine for simple things, but with the node-tweet-stream NPM package (installed on my Mac first, then copied over to the Omega), I continue to receive an error (see below). I backed my Mac node version down to v0.10.5 and ran the script without error. However, when the same exact script is run on the Omega, I get the following error. Note that node-tweet-stream is an uncompiled module....any ideas??

/mnt/sda1/node-tweet-stream/node_modules/node-tweet-stream/lib/twitter.js:270
  this.stream.abort()
              ^
TypeError: Cannot call method 'abort' of null
    at Twitter.abort (/mnt/sda1/node-tweet-stream/node_modules/node-tweet-stream/lib/twitter.js:270:15)
    at null.<anonymous> (/mnt/sda1/node-tweet-stream/node_modules/node-tweet-stream/lib/twitter.js:257:10)
    at Request.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/mnt/sda1/node-tweet-stream/node_modules/node-tweet-stream/node_modules/request/request.js:965:12)
    at IncomingMessage.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
    at readableAddChunk (_stream_readable.js:132:14)
    at IncomingMessage.Readable.push (_stream_readable.js:113:10)
    at HTTPParser.parserOnBody [as onBody] (http.js:140:22)
    at CleartextStream.socketOnData [as ondata] (http.js:1535:20)
    at CleartextStream.read [as _read] (tls.js:470:10)

Boken Lin

@Steve-Fister Hmmm, that's very strange. From the error message it seems that this wasn't correctly referenced, so it's an empty object. What was the line in your code that triggered this error?

Steve Fister

@Boken-Lin Well, it appears that something is missing from either the node.js package or from the OS. I've tried several twitter node modules, all with varying degrees of failure (yet work on my Mac perfectly fine). In particular, the errors seem to indicate the problem is with authenticating to Twitter apis (I have verified the credentials do work as this EXACT same script runs on the Mac).

My code running in index.js is very simple:

var Twit = require('twit')

var T = new Twit({
    consumer_key:         'XXX'
  , consumer_secret:      'XXX'
  , access_token:         'XXX'
  , access_token_secret:  'XXX'
})

//
//  filter the twitter public stream by the word 'mango'.
//
var stream = T.stream('statuses/filter', { track: 'mango' })

stream.on('tweet', function (tweet) {
  console.log(tweet)
})

Steve Fister

Oh, and this was a different node package called "twit". Here is the error received from running this:

{ [Error: Bad Twitter streaming request: 401]
  message: 'Bad Twitter streaming request: 401',
  code: null,
  allErrors: [],
  twitterReply: '<html>\\n<head>\\n<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>\\n<title>Error 401 Unauthorized</title>\n</head>\n<body>\n<h2>HTTP ERROR: 401</h2>\n<p>Problem accessing \'/1.1/statuses/filter.json?track=mango\'. Reason:\n<pre>    Unauthorized</pre>\n</body>\n</html>\n',
  statusCode: 401 }

Boken Lin

@Steve-Fister This is helpful. I'm guess the error encountered with the other twitter plugin is the same thing. this referred to the request object, and because twitter responded with an error, it didn't contain a stream object. Now let's try to figure out why twitter responds with 401. Twitter says that 401 message means the following:

Authentication credentials were missing or incorrect.
Also returned in other circumstances, for example all calls to API v1 endpoints now return 401 (use API v1.1 instead).

But you are saying that you are using the same code on both instances?

Steve Fister

@Boken-Lin Well I think the "this" problem was specific to that script because it couldn't authenticate and as such, did not receive a stream. I've tested three different Twitter packages and they all pretty much fail with an authentication error. And, like I also mentioned, if I run the exact same scripts on my Mac, they all run just fine. These scripts don't all use the OAuth libraries either, so it's not and OAuth issues either. I'm thinking either the port of node v0.10.0 on OpenWRT is not complete, or there is a fundamental problem at the OS level on the Onion. However, I think it's more at the Node level, because I can run a curl script against the Twitter streaming API and authenticate just fine.

Boken Lin

@Steve-Fister Can you send me a copy of your sources? I would like to try it out to figure out what the issue is. I've been able to make HTTP requests using node without much issue on the Omega, and I don't think the twitter login system requires any special HTTP request features.