grunt-webdavpush

A one-way webdav based 'sync'. Can optionally be configured to use an in-memory database to figure out if files have changed since it was last running.

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~1.0.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install grunt-webdavpush -D

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-webdavpush');

The "webdavpush" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named webdavpush to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
    webdavpush: {
        options: {
            // Task-specific options go here.
        },
        your_target: {
            // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
        },
    },
});

Options

options.auth

Type: String Default value: ''

Base64 encoded concatenation of [username]:[password]. This is for basic authentication when you're in an office with relatively relaxed security, but where a casual glance at your screen should not broad-cast your password... It is still recommended to store actual value outside of repo and require it in your Gruntfile!

options.db

Type: boolean / String Default value: false

If set to true, this task will attempt to load a database and check if files have been modified since the database was last updated / initialised. If you want to make use of this options, you must first run the webdavinit task!

If set to a String value, it is taken as the path to your database-file location.

options.username

Type: String Default value: ''

Unencoded, plain-text, [username]. For when you need basic authentication and don't care if a casual glance at your screen broadcasts your username / password. Not recommended.

options.pwd

Type: String Default value: ''

Unencoded, plain-text, [password]. For when you need basic authentication and don't care if a casual glance at your screen broadcasts your username / password. Not recommended.

options.since

Type: Integer Default value: (5 * 60 * 1000)

Milliseconds since last changed that should trigger file to be pushed. Yeah, totally cheap and unsophisticated, will happily upload your file over and again as long as it was last changed within this number.

Usage Examples

webdavpush: {
    authkey: {
        options: {
            auth: 'dXNlcm5hbWU6cGFzc3dvcmQ='
        },
        files: [ {
            expand: true, flatten: false,
            cwd: 'test/fixtures/',
            src: [ 'one/*', 'fake/tst' ],
            dest: 'http://localhost:8081/webdav/'
        } ]
    },
    plaintext: {
        options: {
            username: 'username',
            pwd: 'password',
            since: 1E11
        },
        files: [ {
            expand: true, flatten: false,
            cwd: 'test/fixtures/',
            src: [ 'two/*' ],
            dest: 'http://localhost:8081/webdav/'
        } ]
    }
}

The "webdavinit" task

With the webdavinit task you can prep a database of files that might potentially change. This database can subsequently be used by the webdavpush task to verify if a file has changed since the last time you either ran the push task or the init task.

The database will persist between sessions.

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named webdavinit to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
    webdavinit: {
        your_target: {
      // Target-specific file lists and/or options go here.
        },
    },
});

options

options.db

Type: boolean / String Default value: true

If set to true, this task will create a database in a default location.

If set to a String value, it is taken as the path to your database-file location.

Usage Examples

grunt.initConfig({
    webdavinit: {
        fromscratch: {
            files: [ {
                expand: true, flatten: false,
                cwd: 'test/fixtures/',
                src: [ '**/*' ]
            } ]
        },
        customdb: {
            options: {
                db: __dirname + '/mylokidb.json'
            }
            files: [ {
                expand: true, flatten: false,
                cwd: 'test/fixtures/',
                src: [ '**/*' ]
            } ]
        }
    },
    webdavpush: {
        db_sync: {
            options: {
                db: true
            },
            files: [ {
                expand: true, flatten: false,
                cwd: 'test/fixtures/',
                src: [ '**/*' ],
                dest: 'http://localhost:8081/webdav/all'
            } ]
        },
        custom_db_sync: {
            options: {
                db: __dirname + '/mylokidb.json'
            },
            files: [ {
                expand: true, flatten: false,
                cwd: 'test/fixtures/',
                src: [ '**/*' ],
                dest: 'http://localhost:8081/webdav/all'
            } ]
        }
    }
});

Contributing

Add tests for whatever you attempt to fix / add. Make sure you at least adhere to the jsHint rules defined in .jshintrc. Please attempt to match existing coding style!

Release History

v0.3.0

• Support for custom database location.
• Fixed empty database due to async saving not finished before process is terminated (#7).

v0.2.0

• Support for plain-text username/password
• Support for basic auth using am AUTHKEY
• Support for using a simple database to track if files have changed (for use together with grunt-contrib-watch)