ReliableTXT - The Reliable Text File Format

This package is a port of ReliableTXT for the node.js world. The official documentation pages you can find here:

Release Notes

Latest version:

Detailed release notes for each version are available on GitHub.

| Page | Link | | ---- | ---- | | Github | https://github.com/Stenway | | Homepage | https://dev.stenway.com/ReliableTXT/ |

Using

Generate your first ReliableTxt document

import { ReliableTxtDocument, ReliableTxtDocumentServer } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

// Create new instance of a ReliableTxt document with load and save methods for server side stuff
const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocumentServer(
    "Hello World.",
    "This is the second line of your ReliableTxt document."
);

// Save the new document as a SML file
reliableTxtDocument.save("myReliableTxtDoc.sml");

// Load the new file and read the text content
const content = ReliableTxtDocumentServer.load("myReliableTxtDoc.sml").getText();

console.log(content);

Result:

Hello World.
This is the content of your ReliableTxt document.

Methods

Constructor()

Creates a new ReliableTxt document instance.

constructor(...args: string[])

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

// Create an empty ReliableTxt document
const reliableTxtDocument1 = new ReliableTxtDocument();

// Create a ReliableTxt document with 2 lines
const reliableTxtDocument2 = new ReliableTxtDocument("Line 1", "Line 2");

setText()

Set the text content of the ReliableTxt document

setText(text: string): void

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocument();
reliableTxtDocument.setText("Hello World");

const content = reliableTxtDocument.getText();
console.log(reliableTxtDocument);

getText()

Returns the text content of the ReliableTxt document

getText(): string

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocument("Hello World");
const content = reliableTxtDocument.getText();

console.log(content);

setTextByCodePoints()

Set the text content of a ReliableTxt document by code points

setTextByCodePoints(codePoints: number[]): void

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocument();
reliableTxtDocument.setTextByCodePoints([9731, 9733, 9842, 0x2F804]);

console.log(reliableTxtDocument.getText());

getTextByCodePoints()

Returns the text content of a ReliableTxt document as an array of code points

getTextAsCodePoints(): number[]

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocument("Hello World");
const content = reliableTxtDocument.getTextAsCodePoints();

console.log(content);

setLines()

Set all content lines in a ReliableTxt document

setLines(...lines: string[]): void

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocument();
reliableTxtDocument.setLines("Line 1", "Line 2", "Line 3");

console.log(reliableTxtDocument.getText());

getLines()

Returns all content lines in a ReliableTxt document as an array

getLines(): string[]

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocument();
reliableTxtDocument.setLines("Line 1", "Line 2", "Line 3");

console.log(reliableTxtDocument.getLines());

toString()

Returns a ReliableTxt document as a string

toString(): string

import { ReliableTxtDocument } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocument("Hello", "World");

console.log(reliableTxtDocument.toString());

Methods for server side stuff

save()

Writes ReliableTxt document data to a file

save(filePath: string): ReliableTxtDocumentServer

import { ReliableTxtDocumentServer } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocumentServer(
    "Hello World.",
    "This is the second line of your ReliableTxt document."
);

reliableTxtDocument.save("myReliableTxtDoc.sml");

load()

Read a ReliableTxt file and returns a ReliableTxt document

static load(filePath: string): ReliableTxtDocumentServer

import { ReliableTxtDocumentServer } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const content = ReliableTxtDocumentServer.load("myReliableTxtDoc.sml").getText();

setEncoding()

Defines the encoding of the ReliableTxt document. "UTF8" is the default.

setEncoding(encoding: ReliableTxtEncoding): ReliableTxtDocumentServer

import { ReliableTxtDocumentServer, ReliableTxtEncoding } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocumentServer();
reliableTxtDocument.setEncoding(ReliableTxtEncoding.UTF16_REVERSED);

getEncoding()

Returns the encoding of the ReliableTxt document

getEncoding(): ReliableTxtEncoding

import { ReliableTxtDocumentServer, ReliableTxtEncoding } from "@gelight/reliabletxt";

const reliableTxtDocument = new ReliableTxtDocumentServer();
const encoding: ReliableTxtEncoding = reliableTxtDocument.getEncoding();

console.log(encoding); // utf8