Unexpected token about matrix-puppet-hangouts

[ericmigi]

same issue on ubuntu 18.04, fresh install when trying to generate hangouts-registration.yaml file with node index.js -r -u "http://127.0.0.1:8090"

[thomas-profitt]

@hooger @ericmigi , would you both run node --version? This could be caused by an old node version (node 10 is known to work, we expect node 8 does too, but no earlier version, and node is packaged strangely on Debian-based distributions by default)

[ericmigi]

root@matrix-synapse:~# node -v
v8.10.0

[thomas-profitt]

@hooger @ericmigi Would you pull the latest master, which includes that commit up there, and test again?

I was able to reproduce this on node 8, using the REPL in Docker's official node 8 image:

> docker run -i -t --rm node:8-alpine node

> try {
...   var data = JSON.parse(str);
...   debugVerbose("emitting message", data);
...   this.emit('message', data);
... } catch {
} catch {
        ^

SyntaxError: Unexpected token {

>

I've gathered that, while try { } catch { } works in node 10 and node 11, try { } catch(error) { } is required in node 8, so I've added the parameter to appease it.

[thomas-profitt]

(Heard that this was working outside my REPL, woo!)

[hooger]

My node is 9.x and it works for me as well.
Thank you for the help!