Recently, I've been experimenting with coffeescript, express, and passport. However, there are some aspects of the language that I'm having difficulty grasping.
Could someone please clarify what is happening in this scenario?
When I define the passport.serializeUser and passport.deserializeUser functions like this:
passport.serializeUser (user, done)->
done null, user
passport.deserializeUser (obj, done)->
done null, obj
everything works smoothly.
However, when I attempt to pass these functions from an external source using the following method, which seems identical to me, I encounter a TypeError. The error message states: "TypeError: object is not a function" when passport attempts to execute my deserialize function.
serialize = (user, done) ->
done null, user
deserialize = (obj, done) ->
done null, obj
passport.serializeUser = serialize
passport.deserializeUser = deserialize
I'm at a loss here. What could be causing the difference in behavior?