dree

A nodejs module wich helps you handle a directory tree. It provides you an object of a directory tree with custom configuration and optional callback method when a file or dir is scanned. You will also be able to turn the tree into a string representation. With Typescript support.

Install

To install dree as a local module:

$ npm install dree

To install dree as a global module:

$ npm install -g dree

Usage (local module)

Get an object

Simple:

const dree = require('dree');
const tree = dree.scan('./folder');

With custom configuration:

const dree = require('dree');

const options = {
  stat: false,
  normalize: true,
  followLinks: true,
  size: true,
  hash: true,
  depth: 5,
  exclude: /dir_to_exclude/,
  extensions: [ 'txt', 'jpg' ]
};

const tree = dree.scan('./folder', options);

With file and dir callbacks:

const dree = require('dree');

const options = {
  stat: false
};

const fileCallback = function (element, stat) {
  console.log('Found file named ' + element.name + ' created on ' + stat.ctime);
};
const dirCallback = function (element, stat) {
  console.log('Found file named ' + element.name + ' created on ' + stat.ctime);
};

const tree = dree.scan('./folder', options, fileCallback, dirCallback);

Get a string

Simple:

const dree = require('dree');
const string = dree.parse('./folder');

With custom configuration:

const dree = require('dree');

const options = {
  followLinks: true,
  depth: 5,
  exclude: /dir_to_exclude/,
  extensions: [ 'txt', 'jpg' ]
};

const string = dree.parse('./folder', options);

Get a string from an object:

const dree = require('dree');
const tree = dree.scan('./folder');

const options = {
  followLinks: true,
  depth: 5,
  exclude: /dir_to_exclude/,
  extensions: [ 'txt', 'jpg' ]
};

const string = dree.parseTree(tree, options);

Usage (global module)

Get an object

$ npm dree scan <source> --dest ./output --name result

This way the result will be saved in ./output/result.json

Get a string

$ npm dree parse <source> --dest ./output --name result

This way the result will be saved in ./output/result.txt

Log the result

$ npm dree scan|parse <source> --dest ./output --name result --show

With --show option, the result will also be printed with console.log()

See all options

scan and parse accept the same options of their analog local functions. The options can be specified both as command arguments and json file.

$ npm dree --help --all-options

Result

Given a directory structured like this:

sample
├── backend
│   └── firebase.json
│   └── notes.txt
│   └── server
│       └── server.ts
└── .gitignore

With this configurations:

const options = {
    stat: false,
    hash: false,
    sizeInBytes: false,
    size: true,
    normalize: true,
    extensions: [ 'ts', 'json' ]
};

The object returned from scan will be:

{
  "name": "sample",
  "path": "D:/Github/dree/test/sample",
  "relativePath": ".",
  "type": "directory",
  "isSymbolicLink": false,
  "size": "1.79 MB",
  "children": [
    {
      "name": "backend",
      "path": "D:/Github/dree/test/sample/backend",
      "relativePath": "backend",
      "type": "directory",
      "isSymbolicLink": false,
      "size": "1.79 MB",
      "children": [
        {
          "name": "firebase.json",
          "path": "D:/Github/dree/test/sample/backend/firebase.json",
          "relativePath": "backend/firebase.json",
          "type": "file",
          "isSymbolicLink": false,
          "extension": "json",
          "size": "29 B"
        }, 
        {
          "name": "server",
          "path": "D:/Github/dree/test/sample/backend/server",
          "relativePath": "backend/server",
          "type": "directory",
          "isSymbolicLink": false,
          "size": "1.79 MB",
          "children": [
            {
              "name": "server.ts",
              "path": "D:/Github/dree/test/sample/backend/server/server.ts",
              "relativePath": "backend/server/server.ts",
              "type": "file",
              "isSymbolicLink": false,
              "extension": "ts",
              "size": "1.79 MB"
            }
          ]
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}

With similar configurations, parse will return:

sample
 └─> backend
     ├── firebase.json
     ├── hello.txt
     └─> server
         └── server.ts

API

scan

Syntax:

dree.scan(path, options, fileCallback, dirCallback)

Description:

Given a path, returns an object representing its directory tree. The result could be customized with options and a callback for either each file and each directory is provided. Executed syncronously. See Usage to have an example.

Parameters:

path: Is of type string, and is the relative or absolute path the file or directory that you want to scan
options: Optional. Is of type object and allows you to customize the function behaviour.
fileCallback: Optional. Called each time a file is added to the tree. It provides you the node, wich reflects the fiven options, and its status returned by fs.stat (fs.lstat if followLinks option is enabled).
dirCallback: Optional. Called each time a directory is added to the tree. It provides you the node, wich reflects the fiven options, and its status returned by fs.lstat (fs.stat if followLinks option is enabled).

Options parameters:

stat: Default value: false. If true every node of the result will contain stat property, provided by fs.lstat or fs.stat.
normalize: Default value: false. If true, on windows, normalize each path replacing each backslash \\ with a slash /.
symbolicLinks: Default value: true. If true, all symbolic links found will be included in the result. Could not work on Windows.
followLinks: Default value: false. If true, all symbolic links will be followed, including even their content if they link to a folder. Could not work on Windows.
sizeInBytes: Default value: true. If true, every node in the result will contain sizeInBytes property as the number of bytes of the content. If a node is a folder, only its considered inner files will be computed to have this size.
size: Default value: true. If true, every node in the result will contain size property. Same as sizeInBytes, but it is a string rounded to the second decimal digit and with an appropriate unit.
hash: Default value: true. If true, every node in the result will contain hash property, computed by taking in consideration the name and the content of the node. If the node is a folder, all his considered inner files will be used by the algorithm.
hashAlgorithm: Values: md5(default) and sha1. Hash algorithm used by cryptojs to return the hash.
hashEncoding: Values: hex(default), latin1 and base64. Hash encoding used by cryptojs to return the hash.
showHidden: Default value: true. If true, all hidden files and dirs will be included in the result. A hidden file or a directory has a name wich starts with a dot and in some systems like Linux are hidden.
depth: Default value: undefined. It is a number wich says the max depth the algorithm can reach scanning the given path. All files and dirs wich are beyound the max depth will not be considered by the algorithm.
exclude: Default value: undefined. It is a regex or array of regex and all the matched paths will not be considered by the algorithm.
extensions: Default value: undefined. It is an array of strings and all the files whose extension is not included in that array will be skipped by the algorithm. If value is undefined, all file extensions will be considered, if it is [], no files will be included.
skipErrors: Default value: true. If true, folders whose user has not permissions will be skipped. An error will be thrown otherwise. Note: in fact every error thrown by fs calls will be ignored. Considere

Result object parameters:

name: Always returned. The name of the node as a string.
path: Always returned. The absolute path of the node.
relativePath: Always returned. The relative path from the root of the node.
type: Always returned. Values: file or directory.
isSymbolicLink: Always returned. A boolean with true value if the node is a symbolic link.
sizeInBytes: The size in bytes of the node, returned as a number.
size: The size of the node, returned as a string rounded to two decimals and appropriate unit.
hash: The hash of the node.
extension: The extension (without dot) of the node. Returned only if the node is a file.
stat: The fs.lstat or fs.fstat of the node.
children: An array of object structured like this one, containing all the children of the node.

This is also the structure of the callbacks first parameter.

parse

Syntax:

dree.parse(path, options)

Description:

Given a path, returns a string representing its directory tree. The result could be customized with options. Executed syncronously. See Usage to have an example.

Parameters:

path: Is of type string, and is the relative or absolute path the file or directory that you want to parse
options: Optional. Is of type object and allows you to customize the function behaviour.

Options parameters:

symbolicLinks: Default value: true. If true, all symbolic links found will be included in the result. Could not work on Windows.
followLinks: Default value: false. If true, all symbolic links will be followed, including even their content if they link to a folder. Could not work on Windows.
showHidden: Default value: true. If true, all hidden files and dirs will be included in the result. A hidden file or a directory has a name wich starts with a dot and in some systems like Linux are hidden.
depth: Default value: undefined. It is a number wich says the max depth the algorithm can reach scanning the given path. All files and dirs wich are beyound the max depth will not be considered by the algorithm.
exclude: Default value: undefined. It is a regex or array of regex and all the matched paths will not be considered by the algorithm.
extensions: Default value: undefined. It is an array of strings and all the files whose extension is not included in that array will be skipped by the algorithm. If value is undefined, all file extensions will be considered, if it is [], no files will be included.

Result string:

The result will be a string representing the Directory Tree of the path given as first parameter. Folders will be preceded by > and symbolic links by >>.

parseTree

Syntax:

dree.parseTree(dirTree, options)

Description:

The same as parse, but the first parameter is an object returned by scan function.

Parameters:

dirTree: Is of type object, and is the object representing a Directory Tree that you want to parse into a string.
options: Optional. Is of type object and allows you to customize the function behaviour.

Options parameters:

Same parameters of parse, with one more parameter, skipErrors: is the same parameter in scan options.

Result string:

The result will be a string representing the Directory Tree of the object given as first parameter. Folders will be preceded by > and symbolic links by >>.

Note

On Windows it could be possible that symbolic links are not detected, due to a problem with node fs module. If symbolicLinks is set to true, then isSymbolicLink could result false for al the tree nodes. In addition, if followLinks is set to true, it could be possible that links will not be followed instead.

The callbacks have a tree representation of the node and its stat as parameters. The tree parameter reflects the options given to scan. For example, if you set hash to false, then the tree parameter of a callback will not have the hash value. The stat parameter depends on the followLinks option. If it is true it will be the result of fs.stat, otherwise it will be the result of fs.lstat.

Properties as hash or size are computed considering only the not filtered nodes. For instance, the result size of a folder could be different from its actual size, if some of its inner files have not been considered due to filters as exclude.

The hash of two nodes with the same content could be different, because also the name is take in consideration.

In the global usage, if an option is given both in the command args and in the options json file, the args one is considered.

Build

To build the module make sure you have Typescript installed or install the dev dependencies. After this, run:

$ npm run transpile

The source folder will be compiled in the lib folder.

Dev

To run tests go to the package root in your CLI and run

$ npm test

Make sure you have the dev dependencies installed.

ninjakttty/dree

dree

Install

Usage (local module)

Get an object

Get a string

Usage (global module)

Get an object

Get a string

Log the result

See all options

Result

API

scan

parse

parseTree

Note

Build

Dev