customCommands stored as binary data (BinData)

[Florian Eckert]

Can you please show use your customCommand source? In the repo there
is only commands with ftp requests

2015-08-27 1:07 GMT+02:00 gbyers at indue.com.au <gbyers at indue.com.au>:
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015, at 01:59 AM, gbyers at indue.com.au 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
>
> Currently, I'm just setting it through the GenieACS UI. It simply defines an OpenVN AS group that this new CPE should be a member of.
>
> Grant
>
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