read csv-data and put it in an array

sdetweil

@sdetweil a node_helper has two built in functions (I have never useed init() or stop() for anything, but they are available)

start: when the helper is loaded
socketNotificationReceived, when the modulename.js sends a message to the helper

the helper has one useful function

sendSocketNotification , to send a message back to the modulename.js

everything else is all up to you

note that the modulename.js gets the config.js config:{} info for this module, NOT the node_helper… so if the node_helper needs to know (filenames, timings, ???) , the modulename.js has to send a message with the this.config info down to the helper, and the helper has to save it to use later

Perlchamp

@sdetweil said in read csv-data and put it in an array:

if u install the logging module I suggested, then it captures all the messages from the modulename.js in the browser and prints them to the terminal window log, which would be saved to the file as well.

so i also can do (?):
npm start dev
in the window on the right klicking on “console”. there i see a lot of massages coming from console/moduls
and then i can use your module to lock out other modules (?) …

sdetweil

@Perlchamp

so i also can do (?):
npm start dev

yes

can use your module to lock out other modules (

no… it collects all messages. so I add my module name to them…

on windows the notepad++ editor allows you to find all, and gives a new window with the lines
from where the find was done and allows u to click on the find results and navigate to the original file…
very helpful when there is a big log and maybe only 1 or 2 specific messages u are looking for

Perlchamp

ok, understand

Perlchamp

i have another information for you (github - MMM-Logging):

You can find more detailed information on debugging your MagicMirror here: Module Debugging. If you also want the Electron rederer (web browser) console logs to be printed to the standard console (or PM2 logs), change the following line to the very top of ~/MagicMirror/run-start.sh <<

this file does not exist. i can’t find it in the file-manager (i see all hidden files) …

sdetweil

@Perlchamp yeh, that shell script was removed in 2.11… again I copied someone elses module and improved it for me.

you can do that

export ELECTRON_ENABLE_LOGGING=true

in the terminal window where you will do npm start

but with my changes, I don’t think u need to do that instruction anymore…

Perlchamp

ok, that’s fine

Perlchamp

ok, now i can see the output of my csvtojson object. now the question about handle this all:
is it better (csv-file) to call the rows ‘month of birth’, ‘birthday’, ‘year of birth’, ‘name’
=> mai,23,1964,stan smith
or ‘birth’,name
=> 05.23.1964,stan smith

how said:
i want to display the birthdays of the current month, then the name and the age. if people should have birthday at the same day, they should listed, in which the daynumber only displayed once (=> two cells).
what should happen, if the day of birth is over, i don’t know yet. there will be two options, i think, between the user can choose:

delete the names on the list (with daynumber)
dimm these entries.
finally it should display like this:

sdetweil

@Perlchamp welcome to the fun

its really month and day… year you would only want to know for big event things… 18, 21, 30, 40,50, …

so, I would reorg the data as a hash (object) by date, and list [array] of people [‘Stan Smith’, ‘Joe Anyone’]

birthdays = {}
u can use the moment() object to get the month/day, or had code to extract the part of the date month/day,
birthdays[birth_date][‘names’] = [‘Stan Smith’, ‘Joe Anyone’]
then send the birthdays object up to modulename.js

modulename.js in getDom()
it uses moment().format(‘MMDD’) or (‘DDMM’) (same as node_helper did)
then
if( this.birthdays[date] !=undefined) // if there is something for today
then can add the names in a for loop to the html to display

and if you use moment() in modulename, u can add/subtract to look ahead, and it will format the right month/day,
and u can get the day name

today,
tomorrow
saturday
sunday,
next week…

Perlchamp

uff, now first i have to read some papers for understanding that stuff …
in the moment i only can see the output of the json-object via terminal. i don’t have them saved in an array or string. i wanted to use a async-method (by await), but it seems that this is the wrong way (error-messages) …
i think to put the data first in an array couldn’t be wrong so far ?

 {
    Geburtsmonat: 'März',
    Geburtstag: '7',
    Geburtsjahr: '1972',
    Name: 'Julia Ützglütz'
  },
{
...
}

could it ?