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I have a NODE.JS express server which breaks down chunks of JSON into smaller sections and routes the request via URL's for mobile devices and various other apps I am creating.

I have just moved from test data to live data, but I am finding that NODE.JS is not using the latest version of the JSON, but caching and reusing the JSON that was inplace at the server runtime.

Here is (part of) the code

var express = require('express'),
    http = require('http');
    forever = require('forever');

var ppm = require('./data/ppm.json');
var stations= require('./data/stations.json');
var fgwstations= require('./data/fgwstations.json');

var app = express()
    .use(express.bodyParser())
    .use(express.static('public'));

app.all('/', function(req, res, next) {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-Requested-With");
    next();
});

app.get('/ppm/all', function (req, res) {
    res.json(ppm);
});
app.get('/*', function (req, res) {
    res.json(404, {status: 'datafeed not found please refer to documentation'});
});

http.createServer(app).listen(3000, function () {
    console.log("Data Server ready at http://localhost:3000");
});

There maybe typos in the code as I have just ripped chunks out as the proper artile is quite long as its does a LOT. I keep this server running permenantly using the FOREVER function so it will run without the shell mand being open

Now I suspect I could do some kind of fs.filewatch type function that would restart the server every time the JSON file was updated, but this seems a bit iffy restarting a server especially when this data will be updated every 2-3 mins and future ones even more rapidly. It only takes one person to be doing a request or an app to be requesting data during this restart to cause a problem.

Is there a way of 're-reading' the JSON file assigned to var ppm (the others are fairlry static) or is restarting the server the only way?

Any good ideas on how to read that file and do this would be greatly appreciated as I am sure someone will have a much more efficient way of doing it.

The current dev server is open source (and very much WIP) and feel free to see what it does

http://54.194.148.89:3000

I have a NODE.JS express server which breaks down chunks of JSON into smaller sections and routes the request via URL's for mobile devices and various other apps I am creating.

I have just moved from test data to live data, but I am finding that NODE.JS is not using the latest version of the JSON, but caching and reusing the JSON that was inplace at the server runtime.

Here is (part of) the code

var express = require('express'),
    http = require('http');
    forever = require('forever');

var ppm = require('./data/ppm.json');
var stations= require('./data/stations.json');
var fgwstations= require('./data/fgwstations.json');

var app = express()
    .use(express.bodyParser())
    .use(express.static('public'));

app.all('/', function(req, res, next) {
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Origin", "*");
    res.header("Access-Control-Allow-Headers", "X-Requested-With");
    next();
});

app.get('/ppm/all', function (req, res) {
    res.json(ppm);
});
app.get('/*', function (req, res) {
    res.json(404, {status: 'datafeed not found please refer to documentation'});
});

http.createServer(app).listen(3000, function () {
    console.log("Data Server ready at http://localhost:3000");
});

There maybe typos in the code as I have just ripped chunks out as the proper artile is quite long as its does a LOT. I keep this server running permenantly using the FOREVER function so it will run without the shell mand being open

Now I suspect I could do some kind of fs.filewatch type function that would restart the server every time the JSON file was updated, but this seems a bit iffy restarting a server especially when this data will be updated every 2-3 mins and future ones even more rapidly. It only takes one person to be doing a request or an app to be requesting data during this restart to cause a problem.

Is there a way of 're-reading' the JSON file assigned to var ppm (the others are fairlry static) or is restarting the server the only way?

Any good ideas on how to read that file and do this would be greatly appreciated as I am sure someone will have a much more efficient way of doing it.

The current dev server is open source (and very much WIP) and feel free to see what it does

http://54.194.148.89:3000

• javascript
• json
• node.js
• express

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• When you require a JSON file, it's not automatically updated when you change that file, you have to get the file again. – adeneo Commented Feb 5, 2014 at 20:55

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require() caches everything it loads, as it is designed for loading code modules which shouldn't be changing. If you want to reload something, you have to delete the cache entry.

A better approach would be to instead use a bination of fs.watch, fs.readFile and JSON.parse to reload the changing data. No need to fiddle with the cache or restart the server.

An even better approach would probably be to use a database of some sort instead of the filesystem.

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