docker-exec-websocket-client

docker-exec-websocket-client

Purpose

Client for docker-exec-websocket-server.

Usage

Client:

var DockerClient = require('../lib/client.js');
var client = new DockerClient({
  url: 'ws://localhost:8081/a' //whole url of websocket, preface with wss if secure
  tty: 'true', //Whether or not we expect VT100 style output, also enables exit codes
  command: '/bin/bash', //Command to be run, can be an array with options such as ['cat', '-E']
  wsopts: {}, //Pass in websocket options for the underlying websocket
});
await client.execute();
process.stdin.pipe(client.stdin);
client.stdout.pipe(process.stdout);
client.stderr.pipe(process.stderr);
client.on('exit', (exitCode) => {
  //exitCode is a number between 0 and 255
  process.exit(exitCode);
});

There are also other client events:

• open signifies the opening of the websocket
• pause and resume signify when the server has paused/resumed sending data
• shutdown signifies the server was shut down
• error signifies that some sort of internal error occured, and may carry a utf-8 payload

Testing

Ensure Docker is installed.

To test locally:

• Run yarn install to install the dependencies, including developer dependencies
• Run yarn test
• You can pass environment variables and commands to mocha as well, such as DEBUG=* yarn test -f 'docker exec wc'

To test with docker-compose, similar to CI:

• Run docker-compose build --build-arg NODE_VERSION=16-bullseye, or change to the desired Node.js image tag
• Run docker-compose run --rm test
• Repeat docker-compose build ... when the code changes or you want to try a different Node.js image.