How to connect to dashdb with node.js httpRequest

Question

How can we connect to Dash DB using HTTP/Request module of node.js and execute R-script code. I am able to do it using Node-RED but like to do it programmatically. Right now I am getting this error:

0530 [App/0] ERR Potentially unhandled rejection [2] Error: EACCES, mkdir '/home/nol' 
0530 [App/0] OUT STATUS: 500 
0530 [App/0] OUT HEADERS: {""content-type":"text/html; charset=UTF-8","set-cookie":Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly"],"connection":"Close", ""} 
0530 [App/0] OUT BODY: 
0530 [App/0] OUT An internal error has occurred. The application may still be initializing or the URL used is invalid. Check the URL and try again. For more information, view the server log files.

Below is my code :

  var options = {
  hostname: 'bluemix05.bluforcloud.com',
  host:'50.97.93.115',
  port: 8443,
  path: ':/console/blushiftservices/BluShiftHttp.do',
  method: 'POST',
  username: 'xxxxxxxxx',
  password: 'xxxxxxxxx',
  headers: {
    'Content-Type': 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded',
    'Authorization' : 'Basic ' + new Buffer(username + ':' + password).toString('base64')
  }
};
var postData = querystring.stringify({
  'msg' : 'cmd=RScriptRunScript&command=library\(ibmdbR\)\ncon <- idaConnect(\"BLUDB\",\"\",\"\")\nidaInit(con)\nSUB_NUM <- c\(0877777777\)\nPAST_YR_AVG <- c\(300\)\nTestUsageTable1<- data.frame \(SUB_NUM,PAST_YR_AVG,stringsAsFactors=FALSE\)\nsqlSave\(con, TestUsageTable1, rownames=FALSE,safer=FALSE,append=TRUE\)&profileName=BLUDB'
});
var req = http.request(options, function (res) {
                             console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
                             console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
                             res.setEncoding('utf8');
                             res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                               console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
                             });
                               loggererror.info('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
                           });

req.on('error', function(e) {
  console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
  loggererror.info('Status: ' + e.message);
});

req.write(postData);
req.end();

Answer 1

I modified the code and made it more similar to the node-red http code (make sure you update your username, password and url to match your dashDB instance before testing the code):

var https = require("follow-redirects").https;
var urllib = require("url");

var options = urllib.parse('https://awh-yp-small03.services.dal.bluemix.net:8443/console/blushiftservices/BluShiftHttp.do');
options.method = 'POST';
options.headers = {"content-type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"};
options.auth = '<username>:<password>';

var postData = 'cmd=RScriptRunScript&command=library\(ibmdbR\)\ncon <- idaConnect(\"BLUDB\",\"\",\"\")\nidaInit(con)\nSUB_NUM <- c\(0877777777\)\nPAST_YR_AVG <- c\(300\)\nTestUsageTable1<- data.frame \(SUB_NUM,PAST_YR_AVG,stringsAsFactors=FALSE\)\nsqlSave\(con, TestUsageTable1, rownames=FALSE,safer=FALSE,append=TRUE\)&profileName=BLUDB';

var req = https.request(options, function (res) {
                             console.log('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
                             console.log('HEADERS: ' + JSON.stringify(res.headers));
                             res.setEncoding('utf8');
                             res.on('data', function (chunk) {
                               console.log('BODY: ' + chunk);
                             });
                               //loggererror.info('STATUS: ' + res.statusCode);
                           });

req.on('error', function(e) {
  console.log('problem with request: ' + e.message);
  //loggererror.info('Status: ' + e.message);
});

req.write(postData);
req.end();

My result is this:

STATUS: 200
HEADERS: {"x-powered-by":"Servlet/3.0","content-type":"text/json; charset=UTF-8","content-language":"en-US","content-length":"857","set-cookie":["dsweb11082=0000Pv6OYa62mRxurvYa6c2_5of:31d3d6bb-82d3-44ca-8db8-ac929c09de05; Path=/; Secure; HttpOnly"],"connection":"Close","date":"Wed, 14 Oct 2015 22:11:27 GMT","server":"WebSphere Application Server","expires":"Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT","cache-control":"no-cache=\"set-cookie, set-cookie2\""}
BODY: 
{"message":"","cmd":"RScriptRunScript","errorMessageCode":"","items":"{\"RModelOutput\":\"\",\"filename\":[],\"workingDirectory\":\"\\\/opt\\\/ibm\\\/dsserver\\\/Config\\\/RModels\\\/Pv6OYa62mRxurvYa6c2_5of\\\/1444860685812\",\"RModelError\":\"Loading required package: RODBC\\nLoading required package: ibmdbR\\nLoading required package: methods\\nLoading required package: MASS\\nLoading required package: grDevices\\nLoading required package: graphics\\nLoading required package: stats\\nLoading required package: utils\\nLoading required package: Matrix\\nLoading required package:
BODY:  arules\\n\\nAttaching package: \\u2018arules\\u2019\\n\\nThe following objects are masked from \\u2018package:base\\u2019:\\n\\n    %in%, write\\n\\nLoading required package: rpart\\nWarning message:\\nclosing unused RODBC handle 1 \\n\"}","resultcode":"success"}