node-hrx

A (currently read-only) implementation of the HRX human-readable archive format. It has zero runtime dependencies.

usage

The package contains the following exports:

archiveFromStream(stream: Stream): Promise[Archive]

Takes an input stream of HRX text and returns a Promise[Archive]. Parsing and lexical errors will result in a Promise rejection of ParseError and LexicalError, respectively.

Here is some sample code reading a file:

const { createReadStream } = require('fs');
const { archiveFromStream } = require('node-hrx');
 
archiveFromStream(createReadStream('path/to/file', 'utf8'))
  .then((archive) => { /* do successful things */ })
  .catch((error) => { /* do unsuccessful things */ });

Archive and Directory

Archive and Directory are identical to each other, save that an Archive is meant to represent the root of an HRX Archive, and will never have a non-empty path. Both may have an attached comment and some File or Directory contents.

• path: String: the complete path to the directory from the archive root, without a trailing /. Archives always have a path of ''.
• contents: { name: File|Directory }: a plain object containing directory contents keyed by relative name.
• comment: String?: the attached comment, if any.
• get(path: String): (File|Directory)?: given a relative path, possibly nested with /, returns the File or Directory entry at that path. If nothing exists there, undefined is returned.
• list(): [String]: returns a list of the File and Directory names within this Directory.
• (iterator): you can use for(const x of directory) { … } iteration on Archive and Directory.
• isDirectory() = true: always returns true.
• isFile() = false: always returns false.

File

File contains a path and a body. It may have an attached comment.

• path: String: the complete path to the file from the archive root.
• body: String: the body of the file.
• comment: String?: the attached comment, if any.
• isDirectory() = false: always returns false.
• isFile() = true: always returns true.

ParseError and LexicalError

Subclasses of native Error. They contain additional error information at the properties line and col, and the subobject details.

LexicalErrors indicate only a line and no col. The given line is the line following the end of the record which is causing the problem.

Eventually, the possible errors may be more strongly-typed.

testing

We use Mocha and should to test. You can invoke mocha directly, or run npm test.

license

MIT. Also because I can't help it it's dual-licensed under WTFPL. If you contribute to this repository, you agree to have your contributions licensed in this way as well.