Parse.com Failed with: ReferenceError

Question

I am trying to run the following parse background job in Cloud Code

   Parse.Cloud.job(\"sendAlert\", function(sendAlert) {
     Parse.Push.send({
       data:          


        

Answer 1

If you look for the word status in your code, you will see that you haven't declared it anywhere. A variable named status can't just come out of nowhere, so that's why you're getting a ReferenceError.

According to the documentation, the second parameter passed into the Parse.Cloud.job() callback is a JobStatus object with error and success methods, so it seems that's what you're trying to use:

//                       declare it here   ---------v
Parse.Cloud.job("sendAlert", function(sendAlert, status) {
    Parse.Push.send({
        data: {
            "content-available": 1,
        }
    }, {
        success: function() {
            status.success("Push Worked!!!");
        },
        error: function(error) {
            status.error("Uh oh, something went wrong.");
        }
    });
});