Node.JS Request Module Callback Not Firing

Have a look at this question:

your code should look something like

var hsKey    = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
var hsForm   = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx";
var hsHost   = "https://docs.google.com/"
var url = hsHost + "forms/d/" + hsForm + "/formResponse"

var form = {
  "entry.129401737": pointsAvg,
  "entry.2000749128": hiddenNeurons,
  "submit": "Submit",
  "formkey": hsKey
};

request.post({
    url: url,
    form: form
}, function (response) {
      response.setEncoding('utf8');
      response.on('data', function(chunk){
          //do something with chunk
      });
});

The data event should get fired on receiving a response.

So if you read the docs for the request module at npm

request
    .get('http://google.com/img.png')
    .on('response', function(response) {
         console.log(response.statusCode) // 200 
         console.log(response.headers['content-type']) // 'image/png' 
     });

There is a response event that should get fired.

I ran into this as well. I ended up creating a separate js file containing only the request, without the describe and it methods, and running it with 'mocha mynewbarebonesreq.js'. suddenly I could see that there was an exception being thrown and swallowed by mocha (with the standard reporter, spec).

I finally installed and enabled mocha_reporter which shows the exceptions

now it looks like this:

describe('CMSLogin', function () {
    it('should log in as user ' + JSON.stringify(USER_PASS), function (done) {
        request({
            url: "http://cms.lund.multiq.com:3000/api/CMSUsers/login",
            method: "POST",
            headers: {
                'Content-Type': 'application/json',
                'Accept': 'application/json',
            },
            json: false,
            body: JSON.stringify(USER_PASS)
        }, (err, res, body) => {
            var parsedBody = JSON.parse(body);
            this.token = parsedBody.id; 
            console.log(this.token)
            assert.equal(USER_PASS.userId, parsedBody.userId);
            assert.doesNotThrow(() => Date.parse(parsedBody.created));
            if (err) { done.fail(err); }

            done();
        });
    });
}