freetree

A node module for creating tree data structure from text input

This module takes a simplified tree structured input string and build a JavaScript tree object in memory.

A simple tree structured input string (input.txt) example:

#root node
##node1
###node11
##node2

It illustrates a tree as below:

root node
 |-- node1
 |    |--node11
 |-- node2

Conventions

Each line represents a node in the tree, it should begins with the leading character (default is #). The count of leading chracters minus 1 is the level of the node. There should be only 1 root node which has only 1 leading character, and it should be at the first line of the input string.

Usage

var freetree = require('freetree');
var tree = freetree.parse(str, settings);

settings has below listed properties

• leadingChar: optional, defines leading character for the tree, defaulted to '#'
• compact: optional, output the object in compact mode.

Code examples

Prepare an input.txt file as above demonstrated.

var fs = require('fs');
var freetree = require('freetree');
var str = fs.readFileSync('input.txt', 'utf8');
var tree = freetree.parse(str);

then, the tree object is an in-memory JavaScript object. In this example, the object is in structure:

{
    "level": 0,
    "value": "root",
    "nodes": [{
        "level": 1,
        "value": "node1",
        "nodes": [{
            "level": 2,
            "value": "node11"
        }]
    }, {
        "level": 1,
        "value": "node2"
    }]
}

If the compact option is set to true, the object will be compressed in below structure:

{
    "root": [{
        "node1": [{
            "node11": null
        }]
    }, {
        "node2": null
    }]
}

Test

Make sure mocha is installed globally

npm install mocha -g

Run npm test to run unit test

License

MIT