mkfiletree

Serialize an object to a file/directory tree. Available in npm as mkfiletree

Serialize an object to a file/directory tree

Particularly useful for making test fixtures where you need to create a non-trivial tree of files and don't want to have to mock out fs. See readfiletree for file tree deserialization.

API

await makeTemp(prefix, tree)

Make a directory & file tree in the system's temporary directory, under a uniquely named subdirectory prefixed with the prefix argument. The returned value will be a dir telling you the full path to the root directory created for you.

Using both mkfiletree and readfiletree we can do the following:

import * as mkfiletree from 'mkfiletree'
import * as readfiletree from 'readfiletree'

const directoryContents = {
  'adir': {
    'one.txt': '1\n2\n3\n',
    'two.txt': 'a\nb\nc\n',
    'deeper': {
      'depths.txt': 'whoa...'
    }
  },
  'afile.txt': 'file contents'
}

const dir = await mkfiletree.makeTemp('testfiles', directoryContents)
const obj = await readfiletree(dir)
console.log(obj)

The directory structre created above looks like the following:

$ find /tmp/testfiles11240-23530-r7rs3 -type f -exec sh -c "echo '\n{}: ' && cat '{}'" \;
  →  /tmp/testfiles11240-23530-r7rs3/afile.txt: 
      file contents
      /tmp/testfiles11240-23530-r7rs3/adir/deeper/depths.txt: 
      whoa...
      /tmp/testfiles11240-23530-r7rs3/adir/two.txt: 
      a
      b
      c

      /tmp/testfiles11240-23530-r7rs3/adir/one.txt: 
      1
      2
      3

And the output of the program should be the same as the input to mkfiletree:

{
  'adir': {
    'one.txt': '1\n2\n3\n',
    'two.txt': 'a\nb\nc\n',
    'deeper': {
      'depths.txt': 'whoa...'
    }
  },
  'afile.txt': 'file contents'
}

async cleanUp([callback])

Clean up any temporary directories created with makeTemp() since the last cleanUp() call or the begining of the current process.

async make(root, tree)

Same as makeTemp() but you specify the exact root path to be created which will contain your directory tree. The returned value will be a dir telling you the full path to the root directory created for you.

Directories created with make() won't be removed with a cleanUp() call.

License

mkfiletree is Copyright (c) 2014 Rod Vagg @rvagg and licenced under the MIT licence. All rights not explicitly granted in the MIT license are reserved. See the included LICENSE.md file for more details.