http res.on('end') not working

[espruino-discuss3]

Posted at 2016-07-24 by user47006

Hello,
I have a pico with an ESP8226 working and trying to move some code that I currently have from a node.js project but it seems that res.on('end') does not work in espruino.
In order to fix it, I have to change the event from 'end' to 'close'.

I also tried changing my nodejs app to use 'close' but It does not work there, I know it's an easy change but I was tying to have the code compatible with node.js and espruino.

Is there a way to add the event 'end' in the http response in espruino?

Code not working in espruino pico

	var contents = "";
        require('http').get("http://www.pur3.co.uk/hello.txt", function(res) {
            res.on('data', function(data) {
                contents += data;
            });
            res.on('end', function() {
                console.log(contents);
            });
        });

thx

[gfwilliams]

Posted at 2016-07-25 by @gfwilliams

Thanks - annoyingly end doesn't even have its own heading as an event in the node http reference, I guess since it's on the underlying stream.

It's odd that close doesn't work in node though. the reference sort of implies it's like end and should work - but perhaps the underlying socket is kept open and so close doesn't get called until a while later.

I'll add an end event as well though - it should be in the next release, but I added an issue for it so you can keep track of it here