I have a PhantomJS/CasperJS script which I'm running from within a node.js script using process.spawn()
. Since CasperJS doesn't support require()
ing modules, I'm trying to print commands from CasperJS to stdout
and then read them in from my node.js script using spawn.stdout.on('data', function(data) {});
in order to do things like add objects to redis/mongoose (convoluted, yes, but seems more straightforward than setting up a web service for this...) The CasperJS script executes a series of commands and creates, say, 20 screenshots which need to be added to my database.
However, I can't figure out how to break the data
variable (a Buffer
?) into lines... I've tried converting it to a string and then doing a replace, I've tried doing spawn.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
but nothing seems to work...
Here is what I have right now
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
var bin = "casperjs"
//googlelinks.js is the example given at http://casperjs.org/#quickstart
var args = ['scripts/googlelinks.js'];
var cspr = spawn(bin, args);
//cspr.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
cspr.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
var buff = new Buffer(data);
console.log("foo: " + buff.toString('utf8'));
});
cspr.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
data += '';
console.log(data.replace("\n", "\nstderr: "));
});
cspr.on('exit', function (code) {
console.log('child process exited with code ' + code);
process.exit(code);
});
Try this:
cspr.stdout.setEncoding('utf8');
cspr.stdout.on('data', function(data) {
var str = data.toString(), lines = str.split(/(\r?\n)/g);
for (var i=0; i<lines.length; i++) {
// Process the line, noting it might be incomplete.
}
});
Note that the "data" event might not necessarily break evenly between lines of output, so a single line might span multiple data events.