Event listener problem on client; observing collection

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I am trying to make a button component. When clicked, it will disable and say what it’s currently doing (read from a server collection).

On my client I have something similar to as follows

Template['MachineButton'].onCreated(function () {
  this.lastMessage = new ReactiveVar('OK');
  this.executing = new ReactiveVar(false);
  FlowRouter.subsReady('machine', () => {
    Machine.connections.find({ name: 'messages' }).observe({
      changed: (doc) => {
        this.lastMessage.set(_.last(doc.messages).message);
      }
    });
  });
});

My server does something like as follows:

// factory method to create TCP sockets
Machine._messages = Machine._createConnection('names');
Machine._messages.addListener('data', function (data) {
  Machine.connections.update({ name: 'messages' }, {
    $push: {
      $each: [{
        timestamp: new Date,
        message: data.toString('ascii')
      }],
      $sort: { timestamp: 1 },
      $slice: -20
    }
  });
});

It seems like this executes too slowly. It never changes the messages on the page, even though it seems like it should. Why does this happen? Is it long-polling? How can you tell?

2

What does your template helper look like?

Have you looked at DDP traffic in the web inspector to check that changes are being sent?

Have you added a console.log in the changed block to check that changes are being picked up?

3

I found out the problem seems to be using the following:

Meteor.apply('loadJobs', Cycles.findOne().jobs, {
  wait: false
}, function (err, result) {
  console.log(result);
});

Changing wait to true worked, but I can’t seem to get it to run multiple promises in sequence