catching errors in json stream serialize

added environment variable SOCKETS_DIR for socket directory

src/consumer.mjs

@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ const LOG_OPTS = {
   instance_created:new Date().getTime()
 }
 
-const DEFAULT_PIPE = __dirname + '/unix.sock'
+const DEFAULT_PIPE = (process.env.SOCKETS_DIR || __dirname) + '/uci-socket.sock'
 
 export default class Consumer extends Socket {
   constructor (opts={}) {
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
         clearTimeout(timeout)
         this._listen()
         log.info({opts:this.opts},'connected waiting for socket ready handshake')
-        this.setKeepAlive(this.keepAlive)
+        this.setKeepAlive(this.keepAlive,100)
         let [err, res] = await btc(isReady).bind(this)(this.__ready, this.wait, this.timeout)
         if (err) reject(err)
         log.info('handshake done, authenticating')
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
   }
 
   async send(packet) {
-    await this.write(this.stream.serialize(packet))
+    await this.write(await this.stream.serialize(packet))
     // TODO handle possible error
     // TODO await response if required by setting id to packet
     // then set a flag (and promise) that is resovled in the listener
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ export default class Consumer extends Socket {
     this.on('data', this.stream.onData)
     this.stream.on('message', messageProcess.bind(this))
     async function messageProcess (packet) {
-      if (packet.ready) {
+      if (packet._handshake) {
         this._ready = true
         return }
       await this._packetProcess(packet)

src/json-stream.mjs

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 import {StringDecoder} from 'string_decoder'
 import EventEmitter from 'events'
+import btc from 'better-try-catch'
 
 const decoder = new StringDecoder()
 
@@ -24,11 +25,16 @@ export default class JsonStream extends EventEmitter{
     }
   }
 
-  serialize(message) {
-    var messageData = JSON.stringify(message)
-    var length = Buffer.byteLength(messageData, 'utf8')
-    var data = length + this._delimeter + messageData
-    return data
+  async serialize(message) {
+    return new Promise( (resolve,reject) => {
+      let [err,messageData] = btc(JSON.stringify)(message)
+      if (err) reject(err)
+      let [err2,length] = btc(Buffer.byteLength)(messageData, 'utf8')
+      if (err2) reject(err2)
+      let data = length + this._delimeter + messageData
+    // console.log('serialized',data)
+      return resolve(data)
+    })
   }
 
   _handleData (data) {

src/socket.mjs

@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ const LOG_OPTS = {
   id:this.id,
   instance_created:new Date().getTime()
 }
-const DEFAULT_PIPE = __dirname + '/unix.sock'
+const DEFAULT_PIPE = (process.env.SOCKETS_DIR || __dirname) + '/uci-socket.sock'
 
 export default class Socket extends Server {
   constructor (opts={}) {
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ export default class Socket extends Server {
       if (err) reject(err)
       resolve(res)
 
-    }) // end promise
+    }) // end creeate promise
   } // end create
 
 
@@ -76,14 +76,19 @@ export default class Socket extends Server {
     super.listen(opts, async (err, res) => {
       if (err) return err
     // this gets called for each client connection and is unique to each
-      this.on('connection', (socket) => {
+      this.on('connection', async (socket) => {
         const stream = new JSONStream()
         log.info('new consumer connecting sending handshake')
-        socket.write(stream.serialize({ready:true}))
+        socket.write(await stream.serialize({'_handshake':true}))
         socket.on('data', stream.onData)
+        // TODO need to start error listener for stream so errors can be processed
         stream.on('message', messageProcess.bind(this))
         async function messageProcess (packet) {
-          socket.write(stream.serialize(await this._packetProcess(packet)))
+          // console.log('before processing',packet)
+          let processed = await this._packetProcess(packet)
+          if (!processed) processed = { error: 'packet command function likely did not return a promise', packet:packet}
+          // console.log('after processing',processed)
+          socket.write(await stream.serialize(processed))
         }
       }) // end connecttion consumer
       log.info({opts: this.opts},'socket created')