Module: util/PacketParser

Requires

• module:util/Logger
• module:util/Validator
• module:models/PacketTypes
• module:underscore

Methods

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<inner> checkForMissingHeaders(headers_array)

Compares the received headers to that of the headers in the PacketTypes module. Warns the user if there are extra or missing headers

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
headers_array	Array

Source:

• util/PacketParser.js, line 20

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<inner> parseData(data, headers_array)

Converts a string of data into a packet type object, to be emitted by the TelemetryData module. Uses the PacketTypes module in order to sort the headers into the appropriate packet types as well as to perform the correct validations on each one

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
data	string	A stringified version of the data (split by commas)
headers_array	Array	An array of the headers in the same order as the headers

Source:

• util/PacketParser.js, line 56

Throws:

Error if the specified validation function doesn't exist

Returns:

A hash indexed by the packet type name, with the values being another hash in a format of header_name => data_value

Type

Object

Example

Given '34, 89.654, ...' as data and ['heading', 'lon', ...] as headers, will return:

{
   aircraft_position: {
     heading: 34,
     lon: 89.654
     ...
   },
   aircraft_orientation: {...},
   aircraft_gains: {...}
   ...
}