Meteor: Exception in delivering result of invoking method

Question

Similar issues have been posted, but none quite match what I've run into. I'm doing a simple POST to an internal server to get back product data. The call is successful and I see the JSON data correctly logging to my terminal when I do a console.log on the server side. The issue arises on the client side, when in the callback, the result and error both are undefined.

Server:

Meteor.methods({
    ProductSearch: function(searchTerm) {
        var method = 'POST';
        var url = 'server';
        var options = {
            headers:{"content-type":"application/json"},
            data: { 
                query:"trees"
            }
        };
        return HTTP.call(method, url, options, function (error, result) {
            if (error) {
                console.log("ERROR: ", result.statusCode, result.content);
            } else {
                var txt = JSON.parse(result.content);
                console.log("SUCCESS: Found "+txt.totalResults+" products");
            } 
        });
    }
});

Client:

Meteor.call('ProductSearch', searchTerm, function (error, result) {
    if (error) {
        console.log("error occured on receiving data on server. ", error );
    } else {
        var respJson = JSON.parse(result.content);
        Session.set("productSearchResults", respJson);
    }
});

When I log the values of error, and result on callback, they are both undefined, and I get the following error: Exception in delivering result of invoking 'ProductSearch': TypeError: Cannot read property 'content' of undefined

saimeunt · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-23 19:40:42Z

1

In your server-side method, you're not correctly returning the result of the HTTP.call, since you're using the asynchronous version, HTTP.call will return undefined and the result will only be accessible in the callback.

Use the synchronous version of HTTP.call instead and you'll be fine.

try{
  var result = HTTP.call(method, url, options);
  return JSON.parse(result.content);
}
catch(exception){
  console.log(exception);
}

See the corresponding docs for HTTP.call for additional information.

asyncCallback Function

Optional callback. If passed, the method runs asynchronously, instead of synchronously, and calls asyncCallback. On the client, this callback is required.

https://docs.meteor.com/#/full/http_call

edited Sep 23, 2015 at 19:40

answered Sep 23, 2015 at 19:17

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Kegbreaker Over a year ago

I cant tell you how many times I read the spec for HTTP.call and completely missed that the callback was optional! Thanks a ton.

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