File Sink Remote HTTP

A file sink which accesses files via RESTful HTTP verbs

Why

I want to use something else I wrote, FileSink, to abstract away just a little bit of the file system interface. I want callers to be able to read and write "files" without needing to know where, specifically, on disk they're writing to, or even what they're really writing to. It could be a file system, http, AWS S3, indexeddb, mongodb, or whatever. The caller shouldn't need to know how to connect to the underlying resource, how to encrypt/decrypt, or anything more than the relative path.

This is the bridge between a browser side FileSink and one on the web server which reads/writes the local file system.

While I have some specific uses in mind for this, it also makes it really easy just to provide RESTful access to files.

Install

npm install file-sink-remote-http

Usage

Use the file sink methods to read and write data.

const Sink = require('file-sink-remote-http')
let sink = new Sink(`http://localhost:3000/test-data`)

async function test() {
	let msg = (await sink.read('data1.txt')).toString()
	console.log(msg)
}

test()