Node Filewalker

Fast and rock-solid asynchronous traversing of directories and files for node.js

The filewalker-module for node is designed to provide maximum
reliance paired with maximum throughput/performance and the
ability to throttle that throughput/performance.

Installation

npm install filewalker

Run the tests

$ npm test

Usage

Simple directory listing and disk-usage report:

var filewalker = require('filewalker');

filewalker('.')
  .on('dir', function(p) {
    console.log('dir:  %s', p);
  })
  .on('file', function(p, s) {
    console.log('file: %s, %d bytes', p, s.size);
  })
  .on('error', function(err) {
    console.error(err);
  })
  .on('done', function() {
    console.log('%d dirs, %d files, %d bytes', this.dirs, this.files, this.bytes);
  })
.walk();

Calculate md5-hash for every file:

var started = Date.now();

var createHash = require('crypto').createHash,
    filewalker = require('./lib/filewalker');

var options = {
  maxPending: 10, // throttle handles
};

filewalker('/', options)
  .on('stream', function(rs, p, s, fullPath) {
    var hash = createHash('md5');
    rs.on('data', function(data) {
      hash.update(data);
    });
    rs.on('end', function(data) {
      console.log(hash.digest('hex'), ('                '+s.size).slice(-16), p);
    });
  })
  .on('error', function(err) {
    console.error(err);
  })
  .on('done', function() {
    var duration = Date.now()-started;
    console.log('%d ms', duration);
    console.log('%d dirs, %d files, %d bytes', this.dirs, this.files, this.bytes);
  })
.walk();

Class Filewalker

Inherits from node-fqueue

Options

maxPending (default: -1)
Maximum asynchronous jobs.
Useful to throttle the number of simultaneous disk-operations.

maxAttempts (default: 3)
Maximum reattempts on error.
Set to 0 to disable reattempts.
Set to -1 for infinite reattempts.

attemptTimeout (default: 5000 ms)
Minimum time to wait before reattempt. In milliseconds.
Useful to let network-drives remount, etc.

matchRegExp (default: null)
A RegExp-instance the path to a file must match in order to
emit a "file" event. Set to null to emit all paths.

recursive (default: true)
Traverse in a recursive manner.
In case you wish to target only the current directory,
disable this.

Properties

maxPending
maxAttempts
attemptTimeout
matchRegExp

pending
dirs
files
total
bytes
errors
attempts
streamed
open
detectedMaxOpen

Methods

walk()
pause()
resume()

Events

• file
  • relative path
  • fs.Stats instance
  • absolute path
• dir
  • relative path
  • fs.Stats instance
  • absolute path
• stream
  • fs.ReadStream instance
  • relative path
  • fs.Stats instance
  • absolute path
• pause
• resume
• done
• error
  • instance of Error

Notice: There will be no fs.ReadStream created if no listener
listens to the 'stream'-event.

MIT License

Copyright (c) Oliver Leics [email protected]

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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