read csv-data and put it in an array

[Perlchamp]

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[Perlchamp]

hi sam,
i have a major problem, that i don’t understand. this is my code in node_helper.js:

var NodeHelper = require("node_helper");
var moment = require("moment");

// add require of other javascripot components here
// var xxx = require('yyy'); here
const csv = require("csvtojson");
var birthdaysArray = [];


module.exports = NodeHelper.create({

	init(){
		console.log("init module helper perlchamp");
	},

	start() {
		console.log("Starting module helper: " + this.name);
		//	console.log("Pfad zur csv-Datei: " + this.path + "/data/birthdays.csv");
		
		const csvFilePath = this.path + '/data/birthdays.csv';
		csv()
		.fromFile(csvFilePath)
		.then((jsonObj)=>{      
			birthdaysArray = JSON.stringify(jsonObj);
			console.log("birthdaysArray: " + birthdaysArray);

			var today_day_month = moment().format("DD.MM");
			var today_month = moment().format("MM");
		})
		
		console.log("birthdaysArray #2: " + birthdaysArray);
		
		// moment.js
		moment.locale(config.language);  // set locale
		console.log("aktuelle Zeit: " + moment().format('Do MMMM YYYY, hh:mm:ss'));
		console.log("aktueller Monat(Zahl): " + moment().format('MM'));
		console.log("aktueller Monat(Text): " + moment().format('MMM'));
		console.log("aktueller Tag(Zahl mit führender Null): " + moment().format('DD'));
		console.log("aktueller Tag(Text): " + moment().format('dddd'));
		console.log("aktueller Tag(Abkürzung): " + moment().format('dd'));
		console.log("aktuelles Jahr(Zahl): " + moment().format('YYYY'));
	},

	stop(){
		console.log("Stopping module helper: " + this.name);
	},

	// handle messages from our module// each notification indicates a different messages
	// payload is a data structure that is different per message.. up to you to design this
	socketNotificationReceived(notification, payload) {
		//	console.log(this.name + " received a socket notification: " + notification + " - Payload: " + payload);
		console.log(this.name + " received a socket notification: " + birthdays);
		// if config message from module
		if (notification === "CONFIG") {
			// save payload config info
			this.config=payload
			// wait 15 seconds, send a message back to module
			setTimeout(()=> { this.sendSocketNotification("message_from_helper"," this is a test_message")}, 15000)
		}
		else if(notification === "????2") {
		}

	},
});

why returns

console.log("birthdaysArray #2: " + birthdaysArray);

nothing.

many thanks in advance

[Perlchamp]

console.log(this.name + " received a socket notification: " + birthdays);

should be

console.log(this.name + " received a socket notification: " + birthdaysArray);

of course. couldn’t edit it, because of spam-message from board …

[sdetweil]

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

> 	const csvFilePath = this.path + '/data/birthdays.csv';
> 		csv()
> 		.fromFile(csvFilePath)
> 		.then((jsonObj)=>{      
> 			birthdaysArray = JSON.stringify(jsonObj);
> 			console.log("birthdaysArray: " + birthdaysArray);
> 
> 			var today_day_month = moment().format("DD.MM");
> 			var today_month = moment().format("MM");
> 		})
> 		
> 		console.log("birthdaysArray #2: " + birthdaysArray);

welcome to programming with a asyncronous libraries

csv().fromFile(csvFilePath) starts a ‘long’ operation,
going out to disk, reading in the data, and converting it to json from spreadsheet… (long is milliseconds)

the processor should not wait, so it does not, and the next instruction AFTER the start of the fromFile()
is console.log("birthdaysArray #2: " + birthdaysArray);

	// moment.js
	moment.locale(config.language);  // set locale
	console.log("aktuelle Zeit: " + moment().format('Do MMMM YYYY, hh:mm:ss'));
	console.log("aktueller Monat(Zahl): " + moment().format('MM'));
	console.log("aktueller Monat(Text): " + moment().format('MMM'));
	console.log("aktueller Tag(Zahl mit führender Null): " + moment().format('DD'));
	console.log("aktueller Tag(Text): " + moment().format('dddd'));
	console.log("aktueller Tag(Abkürzung): " + moment().format('dd'));
	console.log("aktuelles Jahr(Zahl): " + moment().format('YYYY'));

and the start function runs out of things to do and returns back to MM…

sometime later , the fromFile() will complete, and call the .then() routine with the data

(jsonObj)=>{      
			birthdaysArray = JSON.stringify(jsonObj);
			console.log("birthdaysArray: " + birthdaysArray);

			var today_day_month = moment().format("DD.MM");
			var today_month = moment().format("MM");
		}

so, if you need to wait for the data(to prints is content) , then the operations would be inside the .then() handler.

[Perlchamp]

ok, thanks. to move the code is not heavy ;-) … i’ve found a snippte to sort my birthdaysArray, but that doesn’t match :

		const csvFilePath = this.path + '/data/birthdays.csv';
		csv()
		.fromFile(csvFilePath)
		.then((jsonObj)=>{      
			birthdaysArray = JSON.stringify(jsonObj);
			console.log("birthdaysArray: " + birthdaysArray);
			
		var result = Object.entries(birthdaysArray.reduce((a, {birth, name}) => {
			const day = +birth.split('.')[0];
			a[day] = [...(a[day] || []), name];
			return a
		}, {})).map(([day, name]) => ({day, name})).sort((a, b) => +a.day - b.day)
		console.log("sorted birthdays : " + result);

		var today_day_month = moment().format("DD.MM");
		var today_month = moment().format("MM");
		})

now i’m looking for another one. is the birthdaysArray a json-Array or a javascript-array or … someone told me, it’s an object-Array and that this has nothing to do witch json … but: csvtojson, so …

[Perlchamp]

so i’m bloody happy :

var NodeHelper = require("node_helper");
var moment = require("moment");

// add require of other javascripot components here
// var xxx = require('yyy'); here
const csv = require("csvtojson");
var birthdaysArray = [];


module.exports = NodeHelper.create({

	init(){
		console.log("init module helper perlchamp");
	},

	start() {
		console.log("Starting module helper: " + this.name);
		console.log("Pfad zur csv-Datei: ", this.path + "/data/birthdays.csv");
		
		const csvFilePath = this.path + '/data/birthdays.csv';
		csv()
		.fromFile(csvFilePath)
		.then((jsonObj)=>{      
			birthdaysArray = JSON.stringify(jsonObj);
			console.log("birthdaysArray: ", birthdaysArray);
			
		var result = Object.entries(jsonObj.reduce((a, {birth, name}) => {
			const day = +birth.split('.')[0];
			a[day] = [...(a[day] || []), name];
			return a
		}, {})).map(([day, name]) => ({day, name})).sort((a, b) => +a.day - b.day)
		console.log("sorted birthdays : ", result);

		var today_day_month = moment().format("DD.MM");
		var today_month = moment().format("MM");
		})
		
	},

	stop(){
		console.log("Stopping module helper: " + this.name);
	},

	// handle messages from our module// each notification indicates a different messages
	// payload is a data structure that is different per message.. up to you to design this
	socketNotificationReceived(notification, payload) {
		//	console.log(this.name + " received a socket notification: " + notification + " - Payload: " + payload);
		console.log(this.name + " received a socket notification: " + birthdaysArray);
		// if config message from module
		if (notification === "CONFIG") {
			// save payload config info
			this.config=payload
			// wait 15 seconds, send a message back to module
			setTimeout(()=> { this.sendSocketNotification("message_from_helper"," this is a test_message")}, 15000)
		}
		else if(notification === "????2") {
		}

	},
});

so now I just have to manage to filter out the people from the complete csv-file who have their birthday in the current month …

[Perlchamp]

if i run :

		for(var birthday of birthdaysArray) {
			if(birthday.birth.startsWith(today_day_month)) {
				// this birthday is for today
				console.log(" birthday on "+ today_day_month+" is for "+birthday.name);
			} 
		}

than i get the following error-messages:

 Unhandled rejection TypeError: Cannot read property 'startsWith' of undefined
    at /home/dirk/MagicMirror/modules/perlchamp/node_helper.js:33:22
    at Object.onfulfilled (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/csvtojson/v2/Converter.js:112:33)
    at Result.endProcess (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/csvtojson/v2/Result.js:83:50)
    at Converter.processEnd (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/csvtojson/v2/Converter.js:179:21)
    at /home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/csvtojson/v2/Converter.js:172:19
    at tryCatcher (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/util.js:16:23)
    at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:547:31)
    at Promise._settlePromise (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:604:18)
    at Promise._settlePromise0 (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:649:10)
    at Promise._settlePromises (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/promise.js:729:18)
    at _drainQueueStep (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:93:12)
    at _drainQueue (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:86:9)
    at Async._drainQueues (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:102:5)
    at Immediate.Async.drainQueues [as _onImmediate] (/home/dirk/MagicMirror/node_modules/bluebird/js/release/async.js:15:14)
    at processImmediate (internal/timers.js:439:21)

I was probably happy too early ;-( … shit happens.

[sdetweil]

@Perlchamp you converted the array to text format, so now its just one big string…

	birthdaysArray = JSON.stringify(jsonObj);

to print it out do this

                        birthdaysArray = jsonObj;
			console.log("birthdaysArray: "+JSON.stringify(jsonObj););

why do you need to sort them?
as you go thru you can just not save the ones not for today, plus/minus some lookahead

once you get to the today list you can sort the names if you need to.

[sdetweil]

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

now i’m looking for another one. is the birthdaysArray a json-Array or a javascript-array or … someone told me, it’s an object-Array and that this has nothing to do witch json … but: csvtojson, so …

json is a TEXT structure…

but it just so happens that javascript represents objects the same way… so the JSON library provides utilities to convert in both directions.

json text to object JSON.parse(text)
object to json text JSON.stringify(object)

text is text and has no meaning (its called opaque because u cannot tell what it is)

no reason to split the birthdate, as u won’t do anything with the individual parts
don’t do work if u don’t need the results

you do NOT Need to do this data reformatting IN the node helper… you can do it all in the modulename.js file, which would let you use the code debugger in the dev console.
in the .then of the node_helper csvtojson, just send the data to the module
self.sendsocketNotification(“have data”, jsonObj)
and the helper is done

on the modulename.js side

socketNotificationReceived(notification, payload){
if(notification =='have data'){

var now = moment()
var active_birthdays={}
for( var birthday of payload) {
// get 1st 5 chars of birthdate, thru month
// we will use this as the key in the hash
var birth_date=birthday.birth.subString(0,4)

// get the birthday as a moment in this year, for comparing
var birth_date_moment = moment(birth_date+now.getYear(),"DD.MMYYYY")

  
// u can add days to a moment object and then compare if the birthdate is before that date (and after now)
// so within the next xx days

  // if the date is the same or later, don't use time of day
   if(birth_date.startOf('day').isSame(now.startOf('day')){

       // birthday is in this month
      // check the hash if we've seen anything for today yet
      // if we haven't see this date yet
      if(active_birthdays[birth_date] == undefined){
           //  create the holder for its info (array of names) in the hash
           active_birthdays[birth_date]=[]
      }
      // save the persons name on the list
      active_birthdays[birth_date].push(birthday.name)
     
   }
}
     // tell MM to call and get our content
     self. updateDom()
}

at the end, you will have just birthdays in this month and for people with the same day
a list of people on that day

in the hash reader (getDom(), Object.keys(active_birthdays) will get you back an array of the
DD.MM strings that are present

but you can probably do without that… u know what today is, so if there is an object with todays DD.MM
then u have the list of people for today

if u want to allow (in the next 5 days,matching what the node_helper did), using moment, u can add a day, extract the DD.MM, check the hash,
repeat 4 more times

[Perlchamp]

ok, thank you sam.
Now I have to process the whole thing first, otherwise my head will burst ;-) …