I just find Meteor.methods and Meteor.call in Meteor API, but I want write a post or get methods given to another App invoke. what should I do?
You can use the meteor package http.
Install it by running meteor add http
Here is a link to the docs which has example calls and lists all the arguments you can pass the http call
AN example of a call from the docs:
const result = HTTP.call('GET', 'http://api.twitter.com/xyz', {
params: { user: userId }
});
Look like you want to receive HTTP get and post requests. Am I right?
If yes, look at this package: restivus
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Is it possible to call the meteor functions from php. i need to call like this for integrate the new package on my site. the package in meteor js.
If it is possible please give the example for this
This is quite a simple one! In php you can do something with a http call such as file_get_contents("http://yoursite.com/api/yourfunction?variableOne=1");
Or even curl if you want
And in Meteor (assuming you understand Iron Router and server side routes) do something like
Router.route( "/api/yourfunction", function() { var variableOne = this.request.header.variableOne;
this.response.statusCode = 200; //Post your status code
this.response.end();}, { where: "server" });
If you are making a CORS request, remember to allow access to cross servers (don't use the wildcard *)
this.response.setHeader( 'access-control-allow-origin', '*' );
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In my Meteor application I want to receive text messages through Nexmo. How do I create the callback function? I'm thinking of something like
Meteor.methods
'receive_sms': (values) ->
console.log values
But http://hitchticker.meteor.com/receive_sms doesn't really work of course. I can see my method is working when I do Meteor.call('receive_sms', 'test') in my browser, but the network debugger is not really giving me a lot of useful information. The Meteor docs aren't very helpful either.
How do I access the method from elsewhere?
Iron Router and then server side routes. Something like:
Router.route('/download/:file', function () {
// NodeJS request object
var request = this.request;
// NodeJS response object
var response = this.response;
this.response.end('file download content\n');
}, {where: 'server'});
In order to receive sms from nexmo you should make the callback (incoming url) available over the internet. Nexmo won’t be able to call localhost to send the incoming sms messages.
Here are some resources to tunnel request over the internet to localhost.
https://ngrok.com/
http://localtunnel.me/
https://pagekite.net/
Using Iron Router I can add a route such as /index returns "INDEX CONTENT" from the server:
this.route('index', {
path: '/',
where: 'server',
action: function () {
this.response.end("INDEX CONTENT");
}
});
The default behaviour for a Meteor app is to return a boilerplate HTML file on the initial request to the server which contains the js/css etc required to run the web app.
What I would like to do, however, is place a string (ie "INDEX CONTENT" as above) within the boilerplate which would normally be returned by default if I hadn't added the route. To do this, I'd need to be able to modify a boilerplate response before it is sent to the client but after it is constructed by the standard meteor response mechanism.
Can anyone recommend a way to be able to do this?
You could try the inject-initial meteorite package.
From the docs:
Inject.rawModHtml(id, func). At injection time, calls func(html, res) with the full page HTML which it expects to be returned, in full, after modification. res is the current http connection response request.
I think you would use it like this.
Inject.rawModHtml('breakEverything', function(html) {
return "INDEX CONTENT";
});
I'm working on a Meteor app (a port from a PHP project) and I need to be able to run commands on my app from the server for various operations like clearing caches, aggregating data, etc. These commands need to be run from shell scripts and crontab. I've seen other people ask this question and apparently there's no official way to do it yet.
I read a suggestion of using Meteor methods and just calling them from the client's JS console with a password. This doesn't solve my problem of running them from the CLI, but it did give me an idea:
Would it be possible to use a headless browser (like PhantomJS) to connect to my app and execute Meteor.call() to simulate a CLI tool with arguments passed to the method? If possible, does anyone know how I might accomplish this?
Thanks!
EDIT: Updated to use Iron Router, the successor to Meteor Router.
There's no need for a headless browser or anything complicated. Use Meteorite to install Iron Router and define a server-side route:
Router.map(function () {
this.route('clearCache', {
where: 'server',
action: function () {
// Your cache-clearing code goes here.
}
});
});
Then have your cronjob trigger an HTTP GET request to that URI:
curl http://yoursite.com/clearCache
When the Meteor server receives the GET request, the router will execute your code.
For a little bit of security, add a check for a password:
Router.map(function () {
this.route('clearCache', {
path: '/clearCache/:password',
where: 'server',
action: function () {
if (this.params.password == '2d1QZuK3R3a7fe46FX8huj517juvzciem73') {
// Your cache-clearing code goes here.
}
}
});
});
And have your cronjob add that password to the URI:
curl http://yoursite.com/clearCache/2d1QZuK3R3a7fe46FX8huj517juvzciem73
Original Post:
There's no need for a headless browser or anything complicated. Use Meteorite to install Meteor Router and define a server-side route:
Meteor.Router.add('/clearCache', function() {
// Your cache-clearing code goes here.
});
Then have your cronjob trigger an HTTP GET request to that URI:
curl http://yoursite.com/clearCache
When the Meteor server receives the GET request, the router will execute your code.
For a little bit of security, add a check for a password:
Meteor.Router.add('/clearCache/:password', function(password) {
if (password == '2d1QZuK3R3a7fe46FX8huj517juvzciem73') {
// Your cache-clearing code goes here.
}
});
And have your cronjob add that password to the URI:
curl http://yoursite.com/clearCache/2d1QZuK3R3a7fe46FX8huj517juvzciem73
Check out this Meteor app, which does exactly that:
http://meteor-shell.meteor.com/
Why do you need a CLI tool when you could just store some scripts on the server and execute them from an admin interface in your Meteor app?
Got the same question yesterday. Found this Package, but have not yet tried it
https://github.com/practicalmeteor/meteor-mcli
Overview
A meteor package and command line tools for creating and running
command line / cli programs with meteor.
Incentive
To be able to reuse the same code of your meteor app in your command
line programs, instead of having to create a separate node / npm code
base with lot's of code duplicated from your meteor app.
I am planning to use Meteor for a realtime logging application for various
My requirement is pretty simple, I will pass a log Message as request Parameter ( POST Or GET) from various application and Meteor need to simply update a collection.
I need to access Request Parameters in Meteor server code and update Mongo collection with the incoming logMessage. I cannot update Mongo Collection directly from existing applications, so please no replies suggesting the same.I want to know how can I do it from Meteor framework and not doing it by adding more packages.
EDIT: Updated to use Iron Router, the successor to Meteor Router.
Install Iron Router and define a server-side route:
Router.map(function () {
this.route('foo', {
where: 'server',
action: function () {
doSomethingWithParams(this.request.query);
}
});
});
So for a request like http://yoursite.com/foo?q=somequery&src=somesource, the variable this.request.query in the function above would be { q: 'somequery', src: 'somesource' } and therefore you can request individual parameters via this.request.query.q and this.request.query.src and the like. I've only tested GET requests, but POST and other request types should work identically; this works as of Meteor 0.7.0.1. Make sure you put this code inside a Meteor.isServer block or in a file in the /server folder in your project.
Original Post:
Use Meteorite to install Meteor Router and define a server-side route:
Meteor.Router.add('/foo', function() {
doSomethingWithParams(this.request.query);
});
So for a request like http://yoursite.com/foo?q=somequery&src=somesource, the variable this.request.query in the function above would be { q: 'somequery', src: 'somesource' } and therefore you can request individual parameters via this.request.query.q and this.request.query.src and the like. I've only tested GET requests, but POST and other request types should work identically; this works as of Meteor 0.6.2.1. Make sure you put this code inside a Meteor.isServer block or in a file in the /server folder in your project.
I know the questioner doesn't want to add packages, but I think that using Meteorite to install Meteor Router seems to me a more future-proof way to implement this as compared to accessing internal undocumented Meteor objects like __meteor_bootstrap__. When the Package API is finalized in a future version of Meteor, the process of installing Meteor Router will become easier (no need for Meteorite) but nothing else is likely to change and your code would probably continue to work without requiring modification.
I found a workaround to add a router to the Meteor application to handle custom requests.
It uses the connect router middleware which is shipped with meteor. No extra dependencies!
Put this before/outside Meteor.startup on the Server. (Coffeescript)
SomeCollection = new Collection("...")
fibers = __meteor_bootstrap__.require("fibers")
connect = __meteor_bootstrap__.require('connect')
app = __meteor_bootstrap__.app
router = connect.middleware.router (route) ->
route.get '/foo', (req, res) ->
Fiber () ->
SomeCollection.insert(...)
.run()
res.writeHead(200)
res.end()
app.use(router)
Use IronRouter, it's so easy:
var path = IronLocation.path();
As things stand, there isn't support for server side routing or specific actions on the server side when URLs are hit. So it's not easy to do what you want. Here are some suggestions.
You can probably achieve what you want by borrowing techniques that are used by the oauth2 package on the auth branch: https://github.com/meteor/meteor/blob/auth/packages/accounts-oauth2-helper/oauth2_server.js#L100-109
However this isn't really supported so I'm not certain it's a good idea.
Your other applications could actually update the collections using DDP. This is probably easier than it sounds.
You could use an intermediate application which accepts POST/GET requests and talks to your meteor server using DDP. This is probably the technically easiest thing to do.
Maybe this one will help you?
http://docs.meteor.com/#meteor_http_post