Compliments: RemoteFile Configuration

lavolp3

@jacktar Here is the underlying function

	/* complimentFile(callback)
	 * Retrieve a file from the local filesystem
	 */
	complimentFile: function (callback) {
		var xobj = new XMLHttpRequest(),
			isRemote = this.config.remoteFile.indexOf("http://") === 0 || this.config.remoteFile.indexOf("https://") === 0,
			path = isRemote ? this.config.remoteFile : this.file(this.config.remoteFile);
		xobj.overrideMimeType("application/json");
		xobj.open("GET", path, true);
		xobj.onreadystatechange = function () {
			if (xobj.readyState === 4 && xobj.status === 200) {
				callback(xobj.responseText);
			}
		};
		xobj.send(null);
	},

Whenever you use a “http://” or “https://” path it takes the path as you have provided. If not it converts it to an absolute path using the this.file(this.config.remoteFile) method. This method uses the modules directory (like you can see in my post above) and appends the path you have given

sdetweil

@lavolp3 another thing to say is

the MagicMirror provided web server assumes

modules is the root
express is listening/watching for modules as the base path

http://localhost:8080/modules/…

the file can be anywhere further down

jacktar

Ok, thanks. Got that sorted now :)
Hopefully this will help others with the same dilemma.
I had read a post referencing the use of file://
notation which, apparently, is a red-herring.

Just for clarity to others, a local compliments.json
file should be located in /pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/compliments/ directory and referenced using only the file name in the config file.

e.g. remoteFile: 'compliments.json'

kayakbabe

@jacktar said in Compliments: RemoteFile Configuration:

Just for clarity to others, a local compliments.json
file should be located in /pi/MagicMirror/modules/default/compliments/ directory and referenced using only the file name in the config file.
e.g. remoteFile: ‘compliments.json’

So… what happens if we update the compliments module? Do our customizations in the compliments.json file get wiped out?
can we put the compliments.json somewhere else to protect it?

sdetweil

@kayakbabe yes they will be lost.
.NEVER edit the source files we provide.

the design is that all your setting go in config.js
and custom.css for colors etc.

module :"compliments",
position:"....",
config:{
    compliments:{
               morning:[],
                afternoon:[],
              etc
     }
}

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