Or define appropriate getters/setters on the module.exports object. Not a basic stuff, but I'll mention it for completeness' sake.
On Thursday, October 31, 2013 2:58:42 AM UTC+4, José F. Romaniello wrote: > > When you call > > module.exports.token= > > You are actually creating a property with an empty string. > > You can change module.exports.token inside your gentoken function and it > will work as expected. > El oct 30, 2013 7:52 p.m., "rendallo" <[email protected] <javascript:>> > escribió: > >> Hi and sorry in advance for this very basic question: >> I got a module login.js which should create some token and provide it to >> other modules. >> So my idea is to create a variable token and a function >> genToken(callback). >> >> ---------------------------------------------------- >> var token = ""; >> >> function genToken(callback) { >> token = "blabla"; >> callback(); >> } >> >> module.exports.token = token; >> module.exports.genToken = genToken; >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> >> >> Now I'm trying to use this in my main code: >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> var login = require("./login"); >> >> function continuef() { >> console.log("Token is:" + login.token); >> } >> >> login.genToken(continuef); >> >> ----------------------------------------------------- >> >> The token-Variable is always "". I would have expected the change would >> take effect. How should I implement this? >> >> Best regards >> >> -- >> -- >> Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ >> Posting guidelines: >> https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "nodejs" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<javascript:> >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] <javascript:> >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en >> >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "nodejs" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected] <javascript:>. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
