chance-path-object

A Chance.js mixin to generate path objects.

Path objects are what Node uses for input to path.format and for output from path.parse.

Install

NPM

$ npm i chance-path-object

Yarn

$ yarn add chance-path-object

Usage

import Chance from 'chance';
import pathObject from 'chance-path-object';
 
const chance = new Chance();
 
chance.mixin({
    pathObject
});
 
chance.pathObject();

By default, chance-path-object will return an path object with keys, but no values.

Example:

{
    base: '',
    dir: '',
    ext: '',
    name: '',
    root: ''
}

Options

Below is a list of available configuration options that you can pass into chance-path-object.

chance.pathObject({
    // options
});

The options are designed to be explicitly inclusive and used together in order to generate a desired path object output.

Example:

chance.pathObject({
    base: true,
    ext: true,
    name: true
});

Result:

{
    base: 'some-name.some-ext',
    dir: '',
    ext: '.some-ext',
    name: 'some-name',
    root: ''
}

root

Specifies if the path object should contain a root property.

For example, chance.pathObject({root: true}) would produce:

{
    base: '',
    dir: '',
    ext: '',
    name: '',
    root: '/'
}

Defaults to false.

dir

Specifies if the path object should contain a dir property.

For example, chance.pathObject({dir: true}) would produce:

{
    base: '',
    dir: 'some/random/path',
    ext: '',
    name: '',
    root: ''
}

If root is also provided, it will prepend root to the dir as well.

For example, chance.pathObject({root: true, dir: true}) would produce:

{
    base: '',
    dir: '/some/random/path',
    ext: '',
    name: '',
    root: '/'
}

Defaults to false.

relative

This is used in conjunction with the dir option.

Specifies if the path object should contain a relative dir path.

For example, chance.pathObject({dir: true, relative: true}) would produce:

{
    base: '',
    dir: '../some/random/path',
    ext: '',
    name: '',
    root: ''
}

Defaults to false.

name

Specifies if the path object should contain a name property.

For example, chance.pathObject({name: true}) would produce:

{
    base: '',
    dir: '',
    ext: '',
    name: 'some-random-name',
    root: ''
}

Defaults to false.

dotfile

This is used in conjunction with the name option.

Specifies if the path object should contain a dotfile for a name.

For example, chance.pathObject({name: true, dotfile: true}) would produce:

{
    base: '',
    dir: '',
    ext: '',
    name: '.some-dotfile',
    root: ''
}

Defaults to false.

ext

Specifies if the path object should contain an ext property.

For example, chance.pathObject({ext: true}) would produce:

{
    base: '',
    dir: '',
    ext: '.some-ext',
    name: '',
    root: ''
}

Defaults to false.

base

Specifies if the path object should contain a base property.

For example, chance.pathObject({base: true}) would produce:

{
    base: 'some-name.some-ext',
    dir: '',
    ext: '',
    name: '',
    root: ''
}

However, if the name or ext options above are used, their values will be used to construct the base property.

Defaults to false.