Can't use object of web3.eth.compile.solidity(source)

Question

I have the following code (source is the solidity contract to be compiled).

var compiled = web3.eth.compile.solidity(source);
var code = compiled.code;
var abi = compiled.info.abiDefinition;

However compiled.code and compiled.info.abiDefinition return undefined. What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

Update Apr 23 2017

geth 1.6.0 has a breaking change to remove access to the Solidity compiler from within geth.

The workaround is detailed in How to compile Solidity contracts within geth with the v1.6.0 **BREAKING CHANGE**?

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This works..

var source = 'contract demo {string public name = "Petros"; function changeName(string _newName){name = _newName; } }'; 
var compiled = web3.eth.compile.solidity(source);
var abi = compiled['<stdin>:demo'].info.abiDefinition;