I'm trying to write a new file inside a grunt-search callback.

The process takes and object, traverses through it for some data, creates a new array, and then writes that array to a JSON file. The writing part isn't working out so well...

// onComplete is the callback, job is a returned object.

onComplete: function(job) {

    console.log(Creating file localize_template...);

    var fs = require('fs');

    var localArray = {};

    var foundEntries = job.matches;



    var stringCount = 0;



    // Drill down to the strings that matched the search.

    for (var foundEntry in foundEntries) {

        // Stay on target...

        if (foundEntries.hasOwnProperty(foundEntry)) {

            var singleEntry = foundEntries[foundEntry];

            // Almost...there...

            for( var match in singleEntry ) {

                if (singleEntry.hasOwnProperty(match)) {



                    // Direct hit!  We've drilled down to the match string itself.

                    var theMatch = singleEntry[match].match;



                    // Now, get the terms inside the strings that were referenced.

                    var terms = theMatch.match(/.*?/g);



                    // Iterate through those strings and add them as entries in the localArray.

                    for( var i=0; i<terms.length; i++ ) {

                        var term = terms[i].replace(//g, '');



                        localArray[term] = 'xx:'+term;

                        stringCount++;

                    }

                }

            }

        }

    }



    fs.writeFile( 'i18n/localize_template.json', localArray, {encoding: 'utf8'}, function(err){

        console.log(File localize_template.json create successfully.);

        if(err) {

            throw err;

        } else {

           console.log(File localize_template.json create successfully.);

        }

    });    

}

The file is being created, but it's blank. I've tried using a generic Hello World! string instead of localArray to test, but the file is still blank.