On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 01:59 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > I've written a custom command that connects to an OpenVPN server & > > determines > > info about a device based on its ProvisioningCode & SerialNumber. The > > result > > of that command is always a string, yet it's stored in mongo as BinData, > > represented as some sort of hash. Therefore, if I create an alias for this > > custom command to display in the UI, the output isn't as expected. Here's > > an > > example ; > > > > > db.devices.find({}, {_customCommands: true}) > > { "_id" : "XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX", "_customCommands" : { "openvpn" : { "_value" : > > BinData(0,"XXXXXXXX"), > > "_timestamp" : ISODate("2015-08-25T01:50:31.721Z") } } } > > > > Is there a way to coerce this into mongo as type: 'string', or do I need to > > decode this using a parameter > > renderer within the UI? > > > Alrighty then. Turns out to be a PEBKAC issue. I was using a ssh2 module > for Node.js that was encoding the result in a Buffer object. This must > have been a recent change & it caught me out. Dumping deviceUpdates ; > > { customCommands: [ [ 'openvpn', <Buffer 4d 57 30 30 30 36> ] ] } > > The simple fix was to add a toString() to the result of my custom command > ; > > return callback(err, result.toString()); > > > Grant
Thank you for clarifying the fix. Out of curiosity, how are you populating the ProvisioningCode parameter? Zaid _______________________________________________ Users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.genieacs.com/mailman/listinfo/users
