Node examples for ThisService <http://wafflesoftware.net/thisservice/>

Acts on input.js

#!/usr/local/bin/node
// ThisService node.js service script example, by Christian Eager
// Service type: Acts on input
//
// Node.js does *not* ship with OS X
// Download and installation instructions are available at http://nodejs.org


process.stdin.resume()
// Makes the data event emit a string instead of a Buffer
process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8')

var input = ""

process.stdin.on('data', function (chunk) {
    input += chunk
})

process.stdin.on('end', function () {
    // input now contains the contents of STDIN
    // Write your script here
})

Filter.js

#!/usr/local/bin/node
// ThisService node.js service script example, by Christian Eager
// Service type: Filter
//
// Node.js does *not* ship with OS X
// Download and installation instructions are available at http://nodejs.org


process.stdin.resume()
// Makes the data event emit a string instead of a Buffer
process.stdin.setEncoding('utf8')

var input = ""

process.stdin.on('data', function (chunk) {
    input += chunk
})

process.stdin.on('end', function () {
    // input now contains the contents of STDIN
    // Write your script here
    // Be sure to print anything you want the service to output
})

Produces output.js

#!/usr/local/bin/node
// ThisService node.js service script example, by Christian Eager
// Service type: Produces output
//
// Node.js does *not* ship with OS X
// Download and installation instructions are available at http://nodejs.org


// Write your script here
// Be sure to print anything you want the service to output
// e.g. process.stdout.write("Hello, world")

I know that this was almost two years ago, but any idea why it's having problems with global includes?

If I have a node file with:

var mymodule = require("mymodule");

And I run node test.js it works fine, however, if I include that line in the "Acts on input.js" it doesn't work. Would appreciate any ideas you have :)

EDIT: Problem has to do with #!/usr/local/bin/node vs #!/usr/bin/env node. Script will only run if local, but in order to find globals, apparently can only run with env :(

any idea why it's having problems with global includes?

@matthewkremer I’m not quite sure what you mean by global. Were they installed using npm install -g?

Problem has to do with #!/usr/local/bin/node vs #!/usr/bin/env node

I think the root of the need to hard-code the path to node, rather than using env, is that NSTask, which ThisService uses to spawn the scripts, doesn’t take the user’s environment (e.g., ~/.bashrc) into account. Looking into this issue further has been on my list of interesting things to solve for…the past two years.