[erlang-questions] Erlang shell command from Javascript (Electron) - Output Error

Fri Oct 9 21:44:26 CEST 2015

Hello,

I am trying to call an Erlang module function from javascript but the
webpage does not display anything in the 'erl_ver' div element in the
index.html file.

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index.html
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>App</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Welcome to App</h1>
<div id='erl_ver'></div> <div id='electron_ver'></script>.
<script type="text/javascript">
var loc = window.location.pathname;
var dir = loc.substring(0, loc.lastIndexOf('/')) + "/";
var e = require('child_process');
e.exec('erl -noshell -s shell_info get_ver -s erlang halt',{cwd: dir},
function(err,stdout, stderr) {
    document.getElementById('erl_ver').innerHTML = "Erlang shell
version: " + stdout;
    document.getElementById('electron_ver').innerHTML = ", Electron
version: " + process.versions['electron'];
});
</script>
</body>
</html>

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shell_info.erl
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-module(shell_info).-compile(export_all).

get_ver() ->
    io:format(erlang:system_info(system_version)).

However, if I remove the cwd option from the javascript exec function, in
the index.html file, I get the following error on the webpage:

Erlang shell version: {"init terminating in
do_boot",{undef,[{shell_info,get_ver,[],[]},{init,start_it,1,[{file,"init.erl"},{line,1054}]},{init,start_em,1,[{file,"init.erl"},{line,1034}]}]}},
Electron version: 0.33.6

How do I display the expected shell_info:get_ver() output on the webpage?

Expected output:

C:\Users\eausaig\Downloads\electron-v0.33.6-win32-x64\erlang_studio>erl -noshell
 -s shell_info get_ver -s erlang haltErlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.1] [64-bit]
[smp:4:4] [async-threads:10]
C:\Users\eausaig\Downloads\electron-v0.33.6-win32-x64\erlang_studio>

Regards,
Austin
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