better-package-detector

Package Detector

Package detector for OSX. Tells you whether or not a given path is a package based on what's written in the LS Register.

Getting Started

npm install --save better-package-detector

Usage

var pkgDetector = require('better-package-detector');
 
pkgDetector.init(function () {
 
  // Returns false if file is not in a package
  // Returns a string of the package path if it is within a package.
 
  // Examples:
  pkgDetector.findPackage('/path/to/some/file');          // => false
  pkgDetector.findPackage('/path/to/a/package.app/file'); // => '/path/to/a/package.app'
  pkgDetector.findPackage('/path/to/a/package.app');      // => '/path/to/a/package.app'
 
})

Please note that package detector does not always stat the file to ensure that it's there (for performance reasons, stat-ing every file can be quite expensive on large packages.) So as a result, it's the responsibility of the caller to make sure that the package actually exists. If you do pass a non-existent file path to the package detector it will try its best to determine if it's a package.