GroupOverview Method

Receives an overview for the articles in range OverviewRange in the CurrentGroup .

Syntax

nntp.groupOverview([callback])

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for this method is defined as:

function(err){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

This method receives an overview for the articles in range OverviewRange in the CurrentGroup. The overview data is delivered via the GroupOverview event.

If a connection to the NewsServer doesn't already exist, a new one is created.