I am trying to use twit in Meteor in order to communicate to the Twitter REST api.
It works fine in say a server.js file in the /server/ directory if I call it by itself. If I wrap or call it from within say an observe or even call a function that calls twit's functions from an observe I get errors.
For example this works perfectly fine within a /server/server.js.
T.post('statuses/update', { status: 'hello world!' }, function(err, reply) {
console.log('error: ' + JSON.stringify(err,0,4));
console.log('reply: ' + JSON.stringify(reply,0,4));
});
But, suppose I want to say call Twitter every time a record is inserted.
var query = Posts.find({}, {fields: {}});
var handle = query.observe({
added: function(post, before_index){
if(post.twitter_id_str === undefined || post.twitter_id_str === '' ||
post.twitter_id_str === null) {
T.post('statuses/update', { status: 'hello world!' }, function(err, reply) {
console.log('error: ' + JSON.stringify(err,0,4));
console.log('reply: ' + JSON.stringify(reply,0,4));
if(reply){
// TODO update record with twitter id_str
// BREAKS here - crash, restart
console.log('incoming twitter string: ' + reply.id_str);
Posts.update(
{_id: post._id},
{$set:{twitter_id_str:reply.id_str}}
);
}
});
} else {
console.log('remove me we have it: ' + post.twitter_id_str);
}
}
});
Which throws this error, server crashes and restarts but no code logic is run where I have commented the Break.
app/packages/mongo-livedata/collection.js:215
throw e;
^
Error: Meteor code must always run within a Fiber
at [object Object].get (app/packages/meteor/dynamics_nodejs.js:14:15)
at [object Object]._maybeBeginWrite (app/packages/mongo-livedata/mongo_driver.js:68:41)
at [object Object].update (app/packages/mongo-livedata/mongo_driver.js:191:20)
at [object Object].update (app/packages/mongo-livedata/collection.js:203:32)
at app/server/server.js:39:13
at /usr/lib/meteor/lib/node_modules/twit/lib/oarequest.js:85:16
at passBackControl (/usr/lib/meteor/lib/node_modules/twit/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:359:11)
at IncomingMessage.<anonymous> (/usr/lib/meteor/lib/node_modules/twit/node_modules/oauth/lib/oauth.js:378:9)
at IncomingMessage.emit (events.js:88:20)
at HTTPParser.onMessageComplete (http.js:137:23)
Exited with code: 1
In summary, the Twitter code runs fine on it's own but not when within the Meteor fibers stuff. I tried putting it in another function and calling that from within the observe etc... no avail.
Any recommendations or ideas?
