attachmate

Streamable CouchDB attachments

An experiment in using @isaacs useful fstream project to stream files in and out of CouchDB as attachments to documents.

Downloading From Couch to FileSystem

Example: Download Attachments to the Filesystem

var attachmate = require('attachmate');
var fstream = require('fstream');
var path = require('path');
var outputPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'output');
var mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
 
mkdirp(outputPath, function(err) {
  if (err) return;
 
  var r = fstream.Reader({
    type: attachmate.Reader,
    path: 'http://localhost:5984/testdb/test'
  });
 
  var w = fstream.Writer({
    path: outputPath,
    type: 'Directory'
  });
 
  // pipe the attachments to the directory 
  r.pipe(w);
});
 
 

Example: Download Attachments (using download helper)

var attachmate = require('attachmate');
var path = require('path');
var outputPath = path.resolve(__dirname, 'output');
var mkdirp = require('mkdirp');
 
mkdirp(outputPath, function(err) {
  if (err) return;
 
  attachmate.download(
    'http://localhost:5984/testdb/test',
    outputPath,
    function(err) {
      console.log('done, error = ', err);
    }
  );
});
 
 

Uploading from Filesystem to Couch

Options

The fstream classes take a set of options at initialization. In keeping with the fstream standard, we use the path option to denote the target document. The following additional options are also supported:

• preserveExisting - whether or not existing attachments on the document should be preserved. (default = true)

• includeHidden - whether or not hidden files should be included when uploading attachments to couch. (default = false)

Example: Upload Attachments from the Filesystem

var attachmate = require('attachmate');
var fstream = require('fstream');
var path = require('path');
 
var r = fstream.Reader({
  path: path.resolve(__dirname, 'input'),
  type: 'Directory'
});
 
var w = new attachmate.Writer({
  path: 'http://localhost:5984/testdb/test',
  includeHidden: false,
  preserveExisting: true
});
 
// pipe the attachments to the directory 
r.pipe(w);

Example: Upload Attachments (using upload helper)

var attachmate = require('attachmate');
var path = require('path');
 
attachmate.upload(
  'http://localhost:5984/testdb/test',
  path.resolve(__dirname, 'input'),
  function(err) {
    console.log('done, error = ', err);
  }
);

Reference

AttachmentReader

_getEntries()

_read()

pause()

resume()

HttpRequestEntry(targetDoc, path)

_getStream()

_read()

pause()

resume()

AttachmentWriter(props)

add()

end()

_addAttachment(name, chunks, size)

_process()

License(s)

MIT

Copyright (c) 2014 Damon Oehlman damon.oehlman@gmail.com

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