'window is not defined' - accessing CMIS from server side about cmisjs HOT 4 CLOSED

I haven't used Meteor, but I seem to recall that it does some custom magic with modules. CmisJS currently goes into "node" mode by checking if CommonJS is in use and window is undefined, which could be what's causing the issue with Meteor. I believe there are ways to wrap these modules in Meteor to get them working better, but that's the direction you'll want to look in to get it working, I believe.

Also, did you install via npm?

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No, presently I just call it directly as a js script. It works fine in the browser, and it looks to work from server side when I comment out lines 1124-1132 of the CmisJS script:

    // http://visionmedia.github.io/superagent
    var request;

    // if running on node.js require superagent
    if (typeof module !== 'undefined' && module.exports) {
      request = require('superagent');
    } else {
      request = window.superagent;
    }

And then explicitly create a global variable "request" to instantiate superagent. Since there's no window available to satisfy the if statement on line 1128.

Will do some more tests with this case and post back whether it works right.

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If you look online, there seem to be a few guides out there for integrating npm packages into Meteor - if you want to be able to get updates as you develop, that's personally what I'd look into first, but YMMV.

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I agree that that would be the better way.

I tried that at first months ago, ran into issues with connecting to Alfresco 4.2, and the NPM module for CmisJS was 2 versions behind the one on Git. So I thought it would help to use the latest version. It didn't, as the problem was that Alfresco 4.2 did not fully support the CMIS 1.1 spec, and when I changed to Alfresco 5, everything worked.

So it's perhaps time to refactor my code to use the NPM again...
Thanks

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