What are the constraints that Meteor is trying to resolve when it loads the packages at startup? Is it all related to versioning or is it actually looking at the code that you load with ap.use() in packages.js?
I am getting this error when I try to start up my project. I have a super-simple package file that I created with the meter create --package command. I put all of my files that make up the package into the directory that it created and moved that directory to .meteor/packages. I'm just trying to create a local package for now. Here's the contents of package.js in that directory:
Package.describe({
name: 'ammap-meteor',
summary: 'mapping library packaged for meteor ',
version: '1.0.0',
});
Package.onUse(function(api) {
api.versionsFrom('METEOR#0.9.0');
api.addFiles('ammap.js');
api.addFiles('ammap_amcharts_extension.js');
});
Package.onTest(function(api) {
api.use('tinytest');
api.use('ammap-meteor');
api.addFiles('ammap-meteor-tests.js');
});
My ammap-meteor-tests.js file is blank for the moment but it exists. Would that make a difference? And I assume you just omit the git: property from Package.onUse() for a local package, is that right?
OK, I was able to get past that error with the publish command:
meteor publish --create
So I did not succeed in making a local package (still not clear on that) but at least I can get the package to load now.
Related
I originally had an app using a private/settings.json asset. When attempting to make a package out of this app, I put that asset in packages/x:package/config/settings.json, and in the package.js's .onUse added
api.addFiles('config/settings.json', 'server', { isAsset: true });
I was using it successfully in the package as
settings = JSON.parse(Assets.getText('config/settings.json'));
until I removed private/settings.json. I now get
TypeError: Cannot read property 'token' of undefined
If I only keep private/settings.json, instead removing packages/x:package/config/settings.json (also changing from config/ to private/ in package.js, the package, etc) I get
error: File not found: private/settings.json
(How) can I have assets that are only local to the package? Alternatively, how can I include/use global assets in private/ in the package?
I think it makes sense that packages wouldn't be able to access assets in the app's private directory. Otherwise, a package could accidentally expose your app's private settings or assets.
It sounds like what you want is to share your settings.json file between the app and the package. There are several ways you could do this:
Put the settings into a second package and use it in your app and in your first package.
Have a method exported by your package called setSettings that allows the app to load its settings and then pass them into your package.
Use Meteor.settings, and launch your app with meteor --settings private/settings.json instead of getting the settings from an asset.
As per this https://hackpad.com/Migrating-Packages-zN0we9sIjkH I created a new meteor package and currently facing a problem when trying to publish.
PackageName : 'UserId:packageName'
To add package : 'meteor add packageName' (mateor add UserId:packageName did not work).
Package runs locally without any issue.
When I tried to publish,
cd path/to/your:package
meteor publish
Message :
There is no package named 'packageName'. If you are creating a new package, use the --create flag.
Publish failed.
Then I tried "meteor publish --create"
Message :
To confirm that you wish to create a top-level package with no account
prefix, please run this command again with the --top-level option.
(Only administrators can create top-level packages without an account prefix)
I used "UserId: PackageName" when creating the package and already log in to meteor account. Any idea to fix this issue?
Thanks !
Make sure the name field is in package.js:
Package.describe({
name: "user:packagename",
// other fields
});
Then, there will be no need to make sure the package is in a directory with the same name.
See https://github.com/mizzao/meteor-user-status for an example.
in ~/.meteor/package/ folder all package.js files has only this:
// This file is included for compatibility with the Meteor 0.6.4 package downloader.
and nothing more.
Where is the package.js code?
Thanks!
The package system has changed.
You will find the auto-generated file you're refering to under:
/packages/name_of_your_package/.build/
As for where the actual 'package.js' file is, it's under
/packages/name_of_your_package/
As per the source code that's building these files for you:
// Pre-linker versions of Meteor expect all packages in the warehouse to
// contain a file called "package.js"; they use this as part of deciding
// whether or not they need to download a new package. Because packages
// are downloaded by the *existing* version of the tools, we need to
// include this file until we're comfortable breaking "meteor update" from
// 0.6.4. (Specifically, warehouse.packageExistsInWarehouse used to check
// to see if package.js exists instead of just looking for the package
// directory.)
// XXX Remove this once we can.
builder.write("package.js", {
data: new Buffer(
("// This file is included for compatibility with the Meteor " +
"0.6.4 package downloader.\n"),
"utf8")
});
I hope this helps!
I am building a package for meteor to be published on Atmosphere and I need to get the current directory that the package is installed. I have tried process.cwd() in a file that's included in the package, but that gets the current directory of my app. The package is installed and working correctly, it just seems that the package is running in the same process as the app, hence process.cwd() is getting the current app dir. Does anyone know of a trick to get the current directory of the package?
This is what I have in the package files:
package.js
Package.on_use(function (api) {
api.use('sync-methods', 'server');
api.add_files(["lib/api_server.js"], "server");
api.add_files(["lib/api_client.js"], "client");
});
api_server.js
var cwd = process.cwd();
console.log(cwd);
This displays /home/dknell/meteor-apps/testApp
Why would you need current directory? To access a file inside the package? Then add a file as n package asset:
api.add_files(['file.txt'], 'server', {isAsset: true});
And then you can read it with Assets.getText('file.txt') in your package.
If you don't want the content, but an absolute path for another tool, you can try
var path = Npm.require('path');
var base = path.resolve('.');
var assetsBase = path.join(base, '/assets/packages/<author_smart-package-name>');
For the <author_smart-package-name> enter your package name, but if it has your meteor user name included, change the colon (:) to underscore (_)
That seems okay on OS X and Linux, probably works in windows as well.
oops, this is for files within the app, not a package. anyway maybe helpful to someone
I need to access a directory path for loading a list of files
// files in /private get built to:
// .meteorlocal/build/programs/server/assets/app/
// base path resolves to:
// .meteor/local/build/programs/server
so you need to manually add "/assets/app" to your paths.
until meteor change this at some point.
just getting to the content of a file isn't helpful if you have a directory of changing content...
Can anyone tell me why the code below throws the following error? :
Error: A method named '/players/insert' is already defined
I'm new to Meteor and coffeescript so I may be overlooking something simple.
Here's my port of the leaderboard example to coffeescript:
###
Set up a collection to contain player information. On the server,
it is backed by a MongoDB collection named "players."
###
Players = new Meteor.Collection("players")
if Meteor.is_client
Template.leaderboard.players = ->
Players.find({}, {sort: {score: -1, name: 1}})
Template.leaderboard.selected_name = ->
player = Players.findOne(Session.get "selected_player")
player and player.name
Template.player.selected = -> if Session.equals("selected_player", this._id) then "selected" else ''
Template.leaderboard.events = {
'click input.inc': ->
Players.update(Session.get("selected_player"), {$inc: {score: 5}})
}
Template.player.events = {
'click': ->
Session.set("selected_player", this._id)
}
# On server startup, create some players if the database is empty.
if Meteor.is_server
Meteor.startup ->
if Players.find().count() is 0
names = [
"Ada Lovelace"
"Grace Hopper"
"Marie Curie"
"Carl Friedrich Gauss"
"Nikola Tesla"
"Claude Shannon"
]
Players.insert({name: name, score: Math.floor(Math.random()*10)*5}) for name in names
The full stack trace is as follows:
[[[[[ ~/dev/meteor/leaderboard ]]]]]
Running on: http://localhost:3000/
node.js:201
throw e; // process.nextTick error, or 'error' event on first tick
^
Error: A method named '/players/insert' is already defined
at app/packages/livedata/livedata_server.js:744:15
at Function.<anonymous> (app/packages/underscore/underscore.js:84:24)
at [object Object].methods (app/packages/livedata/livedata_server.js:742:7)
at new <anonymous> (app/packages/mongo-livedata/collection.js:111:13)
at app/leaderboard.js:4:11
at /Users/alex/dev/meteor/leaderboard/.meteor/local/build/server/server.js:109:21
at Array.forEach (native)
at Function.<anonymous> (/Users/alex/dev/meteor/leaderboard/.meteor/local/build/server/underscore.js:76:11)
at /Users/alex/dev/meteor/leaderboard/.meteor/local/build/server/server.js:95:7
Exited with code: 1
I'm running Meteor version 0.4.0 (8f4045c1b9)
Thanks in advance for assistance!
You would also get this error, regardless of using coffeescript or plain javascript, if you duplicated your files. For example, copying your sources files to a subdirectory named Backup would produce this error, because Meteor merges files from subdirectories.
This appears to be a configuration issue with coffeelint (installed globally with npm).
I originally installed coffeelint to check that my coffeescript code was correct and had no errors.
I installed coffeelint as per the instructions with:
sudo npm install -g coffeelint
coffeelint worked fine when run stand-alone against .coffee files.
However, when running any Meteor project with coffeescript package added I got the above error.
On a whim, I thought the error might be due to conflict with my exisiting node install.
I decided to uninstall coffeelint first with:
sudo npm uninstall -g coffeelint
and then deleted the previously meteor-generated leaderboard.js file.
After re-starting meteor the coffeescript example above worked as expected without errors.
try moving (ie copying and deleting the original )
Players = new Meteor.Collection("players")
one time below if Meteor.is_client
and another time below if Meteor.is_server
I don't know exactly why, as I'm new to Meteor too, but that worked for me, I assume that the server side needs it's own reference,as well as the client,
although declaring outside the scope should do the same (maybe a bug, remember they're still at 0.5.0 preview , which makes me think you might wanna upgrade and try some new smart packages that are with the new version, it looks like you're using 0.4), but when the files in my server wouldn't recognize anything I defined the root directory of meteor (which pushes these files to both client and server), I defined the server's own reference, and I got the same error, and until I moved the 'public' declaration of the reference to give the server and the client each their own copy, nothing worked.
Hopefully that helps...