MMM-MealViewer

sdetweil

@cowboysdude you did convert the XML to json, right?

cowboysdude

@sdetweil Yes I did … it’s all coming back as json but it has a TON of data…

kazanjig

MAJOR EDIT, MAJOR DUMMIE: helps if you append the rows to the table… Success! Now for some CSS.

@cowboysdude I edited my earlier post… minor detail about it being the weekend and not being able to pull lunch data for a day with no school. Now just having getting the data to show up in the table…

It will display the “loading” message, but then it’s blank when this.loaded = true. I outputted the innerHTML values to console and they’re all there. Not sure why they won’t show up in the DOM.

  getDom: function() {
    // Set up the local wrapper
    var wrapper = null;

    // If we have some data to display then build the results table
    if (this.loaded) {
      wrapper = document.createElement("table");

      // Iterate through the schools
      for (var i = 0; i < this.results.length; i++) {

        // Set up header row with the school name
        schoolRow = document.createElement("tr");

        schoolName = document.createElement("td");
        schoolName.innerHTML = this.results[i].physicalLocation.name;

        schoolRow.appendChild(schoolName);

        // Iterate through the cafeteria lines for the school
        for (var j = 0; j < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data.length; j++) {

          // Set up header row with the cafeteria line name
          cafeteriaLineRow = document.createElement("tr");

          cafeteriaLineName = document.createElement("td");
          cafeteriaLineName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].name;

          cafeteriaLineRow.appendChild(cafeteriaLineName);

          // Iterate through the menu items for the cafeteria line
          for (var k = 0; k < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data.length; k++) {

            foodItemRow = document.createElement("tr");

            foodItemType = document.createElement("td");
            foodItemType.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Type;

            foodItemName = document.createElement("td");
            foodItemName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Name;

            foodItemRow.appendChild(foodItemType);
            foodItemRow.appendChild(foodItemName);
          }
        }
      }
    }

    else {
      // Otherwise lets just use a simple div
      wrapper = document.createElement('div');
      wrapper.innerHTML = 'Loading menu data...';
    }

    return wrapper;
  },

kazanjig

So I now get the following table:

Elementary Lunch
Entree “Bold” Cheese Pizza
Entree “Bold” Pepperoni Pizza
Vegetable Parmesan Butternut Gratin
Vegetable Seasoned Green Beans
Elementary Alternative
Entree Chef Salad
Entree Bologna & Cheese Sandwich

The foodItemType in the first column and the foodItemName in the second column are siblings in the data array.

I’d like turn the first occurrence of foodItemType into a category so the table looks like this (ignore the spacing hyphens):

Elementary Lunch
Entree “Bold” Cheese Pizza
--------------“Bold” Pepperoni Pizza
Vegetable Parmesan Butternut Gratin
-------------------Seasoned Green Beans
Elementary Alternative
Entree Chef Salad
-------------Bologna & Cheese Sandwich

Here’s the current loop that creates the table. Any help would be appreciated.

        // Iterate through the cafeteria lines for the school
        for (var j = 0; j < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data.length; j++) {

          if (this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].name !== 'Elmwood Vegetarian Hot Entree') {

            // Set up header row with the cafeteria line name
            cafeteriaLineRow = document.createElement("tr");

            cafeteriaLineName = document.createElement("td");
            cafeteriaLineName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].name.replace("Elmwood Elementary", "Elementary Lunch").replace("Elmwood Alternative", "Elementary Alternative");
            cafeteriaLineRow.appendChild(cafeteriaLineName);
            wrapper.appendChild(cafeteriaLineRow);

            // Iterate through the menu items for the cafeteria line
            for (var k = 0; k < this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data.length; k++) {

              if (this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Name !== 'Choice Of:') {

                foodItemTypeRow = documen t.createElement("tr");

                foodItemType = document.createElement("td");
                foodItemType.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Type;

                foodItemName = document.createElement("td");
                foodItemName.innerHTML = this.results[i].menuSchedules[0].menuBlocks[0].cafeteriaLineList.data[j].foodItemList.data[k].item_Name;

                foodItemTypeRow.appendChild(foodItemType);
                wrapper.appendChild(foodItemTypeRow);
                foodItemTypeRow.appendChild(foodItemName);
                wrapper.appendChild(foodItemTypeRow);
              }
            }
          }
        }

gonzonia

@kazanjig I know this post is old, but I’m trying to accomplish this in a different way. I was trying to do it with PHP instead and the XML coming back from the Mealviewer API isn’t recognized but when I load it directly in my browser all looks good. Would you be willing to share all the code you’re using to load this? I’m not as familiar with how the MM code works and how you’re plugging this into the whole thing. My implementation is just a shared home calendar view that I rolled myself (I may have to look into implementing MM though now that I’ve stumbled upon all this).

cowboysdude

@gonzonia PHP won’t work in this software. If he doesn’t answer you I will be happy to help you get this going…

gonzonia

@cowboysdude Thanks. I’m happy to use a JS implementation as well. The family calendar I created is just hitting a wordpress site I’m hosting on a mac mini. PHP was just so that it could load pre-render but the main thing is just to get the meal list populated on the calendar screen instead of having a separate tab open in the browser. I haven’t had a lot of time to try to look into this or switching to MM. I hate to be hijacking a MM thread but this is literally the only discussion I’ve found of anyone accessing the MealViewer data like this.

gonzonia

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gonzonia

Okay. I’ve decided to build a MagicMirror to replace my homegrown and now I’m trying to implement this module. I’ve downloaded the repository for this from GitHub and ran npm install.
I’ve added some config info to set the school and position. It’s showing breakfast and “Tomorrow’s Undefined”. I’d like it to show lunch. Help?