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Crystal Vesely
15,065 PointsHow are we able to access the request object with no reference to it?
How are we able to call request.on(“error”, error => console.error(error)); when we are not passing that object into the function ? We are able to use the response object within the https.get(), from my understanding, because the response object is being passed into the callback. But within the getProfile function scope, the request object is not being passed in.
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Steven Parker
241,985 PointsYou don't need to pass the request object as an argument because you're calling a method of that object. So the object itself is always available from within that context as "this".
Crystal Vesely
15,065 PointsCrystal Vesely
15,065 PointsOk, so after thinking it through, I’m realizing the
https.get()is a request, which will have a request object attached to it. It’s passing in the response object to the handler. But I am still needing some clarity on how you can call on the request object. Is thehttps.get()the reference? And anytime we call on the request within this function, it will always reference thishttps.get()?I maybe getting confused, because I took the express and creating a node application training first before this training, and we always passed in both the request and response objects before calling on them.