Fixed issue with empty datasets + added request and mongodb to package.json

beacon-app/arraymap-beacon/v0.4/beacon-dataset.js

@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ info.getDatasetsFromArrayMap(function (callback){
     infoObject = callback;
 });
 
-var infoObject = {};
+var infoObject = {message : "loading datasets from arraymap api, please refresh the page in a few seconds..."};
 
 function checkDatasetIdentifier(params) {
 

beacon-app/arraymap-beacon/v0.4/beacon-info.js

@@ -7,10 +7,11 @@ var url = "http://arraymap.org/api/?db=arraymap&api_out=icdmlist&api_out=icdmlis
 
 module.exports = {
 	getDatasetsFromArrayMap: function(callback) {
-		var object = {};
+		var object;
 		request(url, function (error, response, body) {
 			if (!error && response.statusCode == 200) {
 				object = getDatasets(JSON.parse(body));
+				console.log(object)
 				callback(object);
 			}
 			else {

beacon-app/package.json

@@ -17,7 +17,9 @@
     "monk": "^1.0.1",
     "morgan": "~1.6.1",
     "serve-favicon": "~2.3.0",
-    "underscore": "^1.8.3"
+    "underscore": "^1.8.3",
+    "request": "^2.74.0",
+    "mongodb": "^2.2.4"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
     "mocha": "^3.0.2",