Cannot send json object

[chris-aeviator]

Thanks for your great work, I like to use the microservice alot for different projects that do not require a backend but recent notifications.

To use the microservice for data-driven applications it would be benefitial if the user could payload some json data into the mail, as the underlying lodash library supports this.

I could not find out a way to transport e.g. a json object into the mailer (also html structure and "pure" data objects (just displayed as [object] ) fail with unexpected token responses). Further attempts in base64 encoding the object failed, as i get atob is undefined response from the server after i saved <%= atob(value) %> to the template.

I would appreciate any help and would be willing in contributing.

[coderbyheart]

The mail enpdoint accepts any data, as long as it contains to (email) and name:

node-templater-mailer-microservice/api.js

Line 148 in a71a240

subject = _.template(template.subject)(req.body)

so you might be doing something wrong.

Can you show me your templates and the data you send?

atob is not implemented in Node.js, you need to define it:

if (!atob) {
  var atob = function (str) {
    return new Buffer(str, 'base64').toString('binary')
  }
}

[chris-aeviator]

Thanks for your very quick response 👍

Initially I was trying to submit a JSON object like

var x = {"to":"[email protected]","name":"Chris Test","email":"[email protected]","order_details":{"items":[{"product":"Die Bodenstandige","price":69.99,"qty":1}]}};

and output it in the template with <%= order_details %> but it does not reach the template as the server responds with unexpected token i (coming from the "items" string ) .

Thanks for your hint with atob I ws not aware that such a simple Javascript function is not implemented in node.js :)

[coderbyheart]

What's your template?

[chris-aeviator]

By now I'm just trying to output the json into the template, but what I want in the end is to create a HTML structure out of the ( JSON.parse 'ed data).

curl -v -X PUT http://server.xyz:3200/templates/projectOrder \ -H 'Content-Type: application/vnd.node-templater-mailer-microservice.v1+json; charset=utf-8' \ --data '{"subject":"Neue Bestellung von <%= name %>","html":"Toll, <%= name %> hat was bei uns bestellt! <h3>Der xxx geht an:</h3> <p>email: <%= email %></p><h3>Diese xxx verlassen uns:<%= order_details %><h3/><p>"}'

[chris-aeviator]

Hi…I decided to put the direct sending of the JSON data aside and tried to implement the atob way as it fit's my needs.

Still I cannot get the server/templating engine to accept atob.

I tried the following things:

• pastet your snippet
  if (!atob) { var atob = function (str) { return new Buffer(str, 'base64').toString('binary') } } into api.js , config.js and main.js
• added atob via npm package atob and added it to api.js config.js and main.js via var atob = require('atob')
• also installed it globally
• tried to add atob to https://github.com/nametacker/node-templater-mailer-microservice/blob/master/main.js#L35

Still in my template the field is processed with <%= atob(user_details) %> where user details is defined on the browsersite with var user_details = btoa(JSON.stringify(userDetails));

Inside the .js files I'm able to process a atob() command - it log's out perfectly to the console!

Can you please give me a hint where I need to define atob to be recognized by your module?