enfsensure

enfsensure

Module that add ensure functionality to node fs module

enfs stands for [E]asy [N]ode [fs]

This module is intended to work as a sub-module of enfs

Description

This module will add various method that allows the user to ensure the creation of a file, directory, link or symlink in the file system, if the parent directory of the item to be ensured don't exist it will be automatically created.

• This module will add following methods to node fs module:

  • ensureFile

  • ensureFileSync

  • ensureDir

  • ensureDirSync

  • ensureLink

  • ensureLinkSync

  • ensureSymlink

  • ensureSymlinkSync

Usage

enfsensure

    var enfsensure = require("enfsensure");

Errors

All the methods follows the node culture.

• Async: Every async method returns an Error in the first callback parameter
• Sync: Every sync method throws an Error.

Additional Methods

• ensureFile
• ensureFileSync
• ensureDir
• ensureDirSync
• ensureLink
• ensureLinkSync
• ensureSymlink
• ensureSymlinkSync

ensureFile

• ensureFile(path, [options], callback)

Ensures the file existence in the file system, if the file don't exist it will be created.

[options]:

• fs (Object): an alternative fs module to use (default will be enfspatch)
• mode (String or Number): the mode to set to the file, if the file already exists and have a different mode it will be change to the new mode
• data (String): Data that will be written to the file, if it already exists the data will be appended if append flag is true.
• append (Boolean): if true data will be appended to the file (Default: false)
• encoding (String): specify the file encoding
• dirMode (String or Number): the mode that will be set to the parent directory
• stream (Boolean): if true this method will return a WriteStream to the ensured file
• streamOptions (Object): Options that will be passed to the WriteStream createWriteStream()

Sync: * ensureFileSync(path,[options])

    enfsensure.ensureFile("/path/to/any/file",{ data: "contents", encoding: "utf8" },function(err){
        if(!err){
            console.log("data was written to the file");
        }
    });

Stream

    enfsensure.ensureFile("/path/to/any/file",{ stream: true, streamOptions: { autoClose: true} },function(err, stream){
        if(!err){
            console.log("stream is a WriteStream object.");
        }
    });

ensureDir

• ensureDir(path, [options], callback)

Ensure directory existence in the file system, if directory don't exist it will be created

[options]:

• fs (Object): an alternative fs module to use (default will be enfspatch)
• mode (String or Number): the mode to set to the directory, if the directory already exists and is different then it will be changed to the new mode

Sync: * ensureDirSync(path,[options])

    enfsensure.ensureDir("/path/to/the/new/folder", function(err, path){
        if(!err){
            console.log("directory was created in the path: "+path);
        }
    });

ensureLink

• ensureLink(srcPath, dstPath, [options], callback)

Ensure link creation in the file system. link

[options]:

• fs (Object): an alternative fs module to use (default will be enfspatch)

Sync: * ensureLinkSync(srcPath, dstPath, [options])

    enfsensure.ensureLink("/srcPath", "/dstPath", function(err, dstPath){
        //do something
    });

ensureSymlink

• ensureSymlink(target, path, [options], callback)

Ensure symlink creation in the file system. symlink

[options]:

• fs (Object): an alternative fs module to use (default will be enfspatch)
• type (String): symlink type (Default: file)

Sync: * ensureSymlinkSync(path,[options])

    enfsensure.ensureSymlink("./foo", "./new-port", "file", function(err, dstPath){
        //do something
    });

License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License

Copyright (c) 2016 Joao Parreira [e-mail] GitHub

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