Appears not to parse JSON

[delwaterman]

Maybe I am doing something stupid, but it looks like the data is not even parsed:

var Client = require('node-rest-client').Client;
client = new Client();
client.get('http://localhost:5050/workbooks/TotalDailyGrossRevenue/last-refresh-time', function(data, response){
    console.log('Data is a', typeof data);
});

Results in:

$ node scripts/test_client.js
Data is a string

Curling looks fine:

$ curl -v http://localhost:5050/workbooks/TotalDailyGrossRevenue/last-refresh-time
* About to connect() to localhost port 5050 (#0)
*   Trying ::1...
* Connection refused
*   Trying 127.0.0.1...
* connected
* Connected to localhost (127.0.0.1) port 5050 (#0)
> GET /workbooks/TotalDailyGrossRevenue/last-refresh-time HTTP/1.1
> User-Agent: curl/7.24.0 (x86_64-apple-darwin12.0) libcurl/7.24.0 OpenSSL/0.9.8y zlib/1.2.5
> Host: localhost:5050
> Accept: */*
>
< HTTP/1.1 200 OK
< X-Powered-By: Express
< Content-Type: application/json; charset=utf-8
< Content-Length: 555
< ETag: "1044588208"
< Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 19:40:37 GMT
< Connection: keep-alive
<
{
  "id": "TotalDailyGrossRevenue",
  "worksheets": [
    {
      "name": "2013 Goal Tracking Data"
    },
    {
      "name": "2013 Goal Tracking Graph"
    },
    {
      "name": "Best Day"
    },
    {
      "name": "By Product"
    },
    {
      "name": "Data Table"
    },
    {
      "name": "Total"
    },
    {
      "name": "2013 Revenue Goal Tracker"
    },
    {
      "name": "Data"
    },
    {
      "name": "Gross Revenue by Product"
    },
    {
      "name": "Total Gross Revenue"
    }
  ],
  "lastRefresh": "2014-02-19T18:49:45.085Z"
* Connection #0 to host localhost left intact
}* Closing connection #0

[aacerox]

Hi
by default node-rest-client has 2 content-types defined

"xmlctype":["application/xml","application/xml;charset=utf-8"],
"jsonctype":["application/json","application/json;charset=utf-8"]

note that there is no space between content-type and charset, while CURL is returning

"application/json; charset=utf-8"

with an extra space between content type and charset.

So to fix your issue you must set this content-type (with space) as a client config parameter as you can see in issue #12 and in nod-rest-client documentation.

var options ={  
    // customize mime types for json or xml connections 
    //(in your case with a space between type and charset)
    mimetypes:{
        json:["application/json","application/json; charset=utf-8"],
        xml:["application/xml","application/xml; charset=utf-8"]
    } 
};

Client client = new Client(options)