tree-monkey

Async tree traversal for nodejs

About

tree-monkey takes a JSON or object literal tree of the form

{
  "nodeA": {
    "nodeAA": {
      "nodeAAA": 'leaf'
    }
  },
  "nodeB": {
    "nodeBA": 42,
    "nodeBB": []
  }
}

and traversers it asynchronously.

Usage

The basic usage is as follows:

var monkey = require('tree-monkey')
  , tree = { ... };

monkey.preOrder(tree, function (node, path, callback) {
  // do something async with the current node and/or path
  ...

  // signal that you are done
  callback();
});

Pre-order traversal

Visits all nodes depth-first in async pre-order, meaning each parent node is visited before its child nodes and then all child nodes are visited asynchronously. This means all branches are visited in their own speed, so to say, and we can't know the order in which they will complete.

preOrder(tree, nodeFunction, callback)

Arguments:

tree

Type: Object

The tree to traverse

nodeFunction

Type: Function

The function called on each node. Receives the current node, the current path and a callback as arguments. Callback must be called eventually.

callback

Type: Function Optional

An optional callback, which is called after the whole tree has been traversed

Post-order traversal

Visits all nodes depth-first in async prost-order, meaning children will be visited before their parent node. Child nodes are visited asynchronously, meaning we can't know the order in which they will complete.

preOrder(tree, nodeFunction, callback)

Take the same arguments as preOrder

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013 Felix Hageloh [email protected]

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