flatdb

node-flatdb

FlatDB it's a database based on JSON files, it's intended to help save and load informations from systems and processes that don't require hight data volume or read/write extreme performance.

Example

You have a server that need to load the configurations but need to change it programatically some times, you won't install a whole database engine for such a simple thing...

Installation

To install FlatDB you just need to use npm npm install flatdb

Usage

Require the db an initialize it:

var flatdb = require('flatdb');
var db = new flatdb('./database'); //use any existing folder as db

//db will emit the event 'connect' when everything is ready to go
db.on('connect', function(){

    doc = {
        "hostname" : "localhost",
        "port" : 8001,
        "user" : "myuser",
        "date" : new Date().getTime()
    }

    //insert some information in the database
    db.save(doc, function(err){
        if(err) throw err;
        console.log('Finished insering information.');

        //find some information on the database
        db.find({"user" : "myuser"}, function(err, docs){
            if(err) throw err;
            console.log("We found: ", docs);

            //now let's update every document that have the hostname
            //"localhost" to use the port 1337
            db.update({"hostname" : "localhost"}, {"port" : 1337}, function(err){
                console.log('Finished updating...');

                //let's delete every document that have the key "user"
                //with the valye "myuser"
                db.delete({"user" : "myuser"}, function(err){
                    if(err) throw err;
                    console.log('Finished deleting...');
                });
            });
        });
    });
});

For handling startup error, FlatDB emits a error event, so you can catch it like:

var flatdb = require('flatdb');
var db = new flatdb('./nonexistent/path'); //force error

//db will emit the event 'connect' when everything is ready to go
db.on('connect', function(){
    console.log('This message should not appear...')
});

//catch startup error here
db.on('error', function(err){
    console.log('Oops:', err);
});

TODO

• Write tests
• Expand features
• Write documentation
• ...

License

The MIT License (MIT) Copyright (c) 2012 Cranic Tecnologia e Informática LTDA

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