I have a super-simple web-app written in Coffeescript, inherited from someone else, that I do not wish to rewrite completely into a language that I actually know. I just need to modify it to make it a little less rubbish. I know absolutely zip about Coffeescript other than what I've deduced from working on this.
It's structured as two files, config.coffee (storing some config values) and app.coffee, that implements some endpoints and associated methods. Bear in mind this was implemented by someone in academia, and meant for internal use only, so security and elegance are of little consequence here.
In config.coffee, there is a list of user-ids that are hardcoded in, which instead, I want to read from a csv file (specifically, the second column thereof). So I have
@include = ->
location: "http://xxx.xxx.xx.xx/data/"
# --- old code ---
# users: [
# "foo", "bar", "foobar"
# ]
# --- new code ---
fs = require 'fs'
user_list_file = 'hashed_users.txt'
user_list_string = fs.readFileSync user_list_file, 'ascii'
user_list_strings = user_list_string.split "\n"
end_user_list = []
for user_entry in user_list_strings
split_entry = user_entry.split ","
hash = split_entry[1]
end_user_list.push hash
end_user_list=end_user_list.slice(0,-1)
console.log(end_user_list)
users: end_user_list
So this is supposed to read the file into a string, and grab the second column using string splitting - I tried to use a csv parser package, but the version of node is too old (and this blasted thing only works with node 0.6.x). It kind of works, in that the users array is set correctly when printed using console.log(), but I don't think its within the "namespace" (if thats even the right word) of that @include = -> declaration, which seems to be referenced from app.coffee by:
app_conf = @include './config'
after which you're supposed to be able to call the "properties" of app_conf, as in app_conf.location and app_conf.users.
So my question is, how do I get those imported users into the app_conf object?