creating airtable object to be sent to react >relates #18

controllers/airtable.js

@@ -12,44 +12,34 @@ module.exports = (req, res, next) => {
     });
     var base = Airtable.base('apphdQNWTLdRQbOOg');
 
-    // set up storage array to be sent to frontend
-    let storage = [];
+    // set up storageUpdaterArr array to be sent to
+    let storageUpdaterArr = [];
 
-    // setup postcodesIO
-
-    var PostcodesIO = require('postcodesio-client');
-    var postcodes = new PostcodesIO('https://api.postcodes.io', {
-        headers: { 'User-Agent': 'MyAwesomeApp/1.0.0' } // default {} - extra headers
-    });
-
-    // start query
+    // start query to update airtable view no_geolocation
     base('fonthilldummy').select({
-        // Selecting the first 3 records in Grid view:
-        maxRecords: 3,
-        pageSize: 3,
+        maxRecords: 100,
+        pageSize: 100,
         view: "no_geolocation"
     }).eachPage(function page(records, fetchNextPage) {
         // This function (`page`) will get called for each page of records.
         const airtableRecords = records
-
         airtableRecords.forEach(function (record) {
+            // set up objet to be populated using postcodesIO and sent back to airtable
             postcodeIdObj = {
                 id: record.id,
                 postcode: record.fields.Postcode,
                 coordinates: {}
             }
-            storage.push(postcodeIdObj)
+            storageUpdaterArr.push(postcodeIdObj)
         });
         // create postcode object to be sent to geolocation api
         let postcodeObj = {
-            "postcodes": storage.map(postcode => {
+            "postcodes": storageUpdaterArr.map(postcode => {
                 return postcode.postcode
             })
         }
-
         request.post('https://api.postcodes.io/postcodes', {
             json: postcodeObj,
-
         }, (error, res, body) => {
             if (error) {
                 // connsole.log(error)
@@ -58,44 +48,52 @@ module.exports = (req, res, next) => {
             }
             console.log(`statusCode: ${res.statusCode}`)
 
-
+            // populate storageUpdate array coordinates
             for (let i = 0; i < body.result.length; i++) {
-                storage[i].coordinates = {
+                storageUpdaterArr[i].coordinates = {
                     lat: body.result[i].result.latitude,
                     lng: body.result[i].result.longitude
                 }
             }
-
-            // console.log(storage[0].coordinates)
-            for (let i = 0; i < storage.length; i++){
-                // console.log(storage.length)
-
-                  base('fonthilldummy').update(storage[i].id, {
-                    'geolocation': JSON.stringify(storage[i].coordinates)
-                }, function(err,record) {
-                    if (err){console.log(err); return;}
+            // send coords and id to update no_geolocation view
+            for (let i = 0; i < storageUpdaterArr.length; i++) {
+                base('fonthilldummy').update(storageUpdaterArr[i].id, {
+                    'geolocation': JSON.stringify(storageUpdaterArr[i].coordinates)
+                }, function (err, record) {
+                    if (err) { console.log(err); return; }
                     console.log(record.get('geolocation'));
-                });  
-
-
+                });
             }
-
-
-
         })
-
         // To fetch the next page of records, call `fetchNextPage`.
         // If there are more records, `page` will get called again.
         // If there are no more records, `done` will get called.
         fetchNextPage();
     },
+        // set up api call to get airtable data
+        base('fonthilldummy').select({
+            maxRecords: 1,
+            pageSize: 3,
+            view: "Grid view"
+        }).eachPage(function page(records, fetchNextPage) {
+            records.forEach(function (record) {
+                // set up objet to be populated using postcodesIO and sent back to airtable
+                airtableObj = {
+                    id: record.id,
+                    postcode: record.fields.Postcode,
+                    coordinates: record.fields.geolocation
+                }
+                // console.log(airtableObj);
+            })
+            fetchNextPage();
+        },
+            function done(err) {
+                if (err) { console.error(err); next(err); }
+                res.send(airtableObj)
+            }
+        )
 
 
-
-        function done(err) {
-            if (err) { console.error(err); next(err); }
-            res.send({...storage})
-
-        });
+    );
 
 }