json route table read fails on change

[bazjapan]

fs.watchFile(this.routeFile, function () {
fs.readFile(self.routeFile, function (err, data) {
if (err) {
self.emit('error', err);
}
console.log(data);

logs - <Buffer >

SyntaxError: Unexpected end of input
at Object.parse (native)
at /home/bazjapan/app/node_modules/http-proxy/lib/node-http-proxy/proxy-table.js:69:29
at [object Object]. (fs.js:123:5)
at [object Object].emit (events.js:64:17)
at Object.oncomplete (fs.js:1190:12)

The json is fine, however readFile is returning a buffer and thusly json.Parse freaks out.

[indexzero]

You want to use fs.readFile(self.routeFile, 'utf8', function (err, data) { ...