📄 lol-file-parser

A factory used to create generic file parsers.

Download

lol-file-parser is installable via:

• GitHub git clone https://github.com/Pupix/lol-file-parser.git
• npm: npm install lol-file-parser
• yarn: yarn add lol-file-parser

Usage example

var fs = require('fs-extra'),
    fileParser = require('lol-file-parser'),
    
    // Create a JSONParser Class
    class JSONParser extends FileParser {
    
        async _parse(parser) {
            return parser.string(parser.size());
        }

        async _read(parsedData) {
            return JSON.parse(parsedData);
        }
    }
    
    // Create an instance of out new class 
    json = new JSONParser();
    
    // Read the package.json file
    json.read('package.json').then(console.log)
    //  {
    //      "name": "lol-file-parser",
    //      "license": "MIT",
    //      "homepage": "https://github.com/Pupix/lol-file-parser",
    //      ...
    //  }

General

The parser has two flows and each further method depends on the previous one

_create => _write

_parse => _read => _extract

Configuring the parser

To create a parser you need to extend the base parser and override the following methods:

Used to create a data structure.

Parameters

1. data {*} Initial data to generate the structure.

Returns Promise

Used to write data to disk.

Parameters

1. createdData {*} The data passed by _create.
2. output {string} The path where the file should be stored.

Returns Promise

_parse(parser)

Used to parse data from a file / buffer.

Parameters

1. parser {*} An instance of a binary-buffer-parser.

Returns Promise

_read(parsedData, parser)

Used to further parse the data into a human readable format.

Parameters

1. data {*} The data passed by _parse.
2. parser {Parser} An instance of a binary-buffer-parser.

Returns Promise

_extract(data, output)

Used to write the parsed data to disk.

Parameters

1. data {*} The data passed by _read.
2. output {string} The path where the file should be stored.
3. parser {Parser} An instance of a binary-buffer-parser.

Returns Promise

Using the parser

After you set up your parser and create an instance, the following methods will be available:

create(data)

It will create a data structure from the passed data.

Parameters

1. data {*} The original data.

** Returns** Promise

write(data, output)

It will create a data structure and write it to disk.

Parameters

1. data {*} The original data.
2. output {string} The path where the file should be stored.

** Returns** Promise

parse(input, cb)

It will parse a file from the input file / buffer.

Parameters

1. input {string, Buffer} A path to where the file to parse resides, or the file's buffer itself.

** Returns** Promise

read(input, cb)

It will parse and create a human readable structure of a file from the input path/buffer.

Parameters

1. input {string, Buffer} A path to where the file to parse resides, or the file's buffer itself.

** Returns** Promise

extract(input, output, cb)

It will read a file / buffer and store a human readable version of it on disk.

Parameters

1. input {string, Buffer} A path to where the file to parse resides, or the file's buffer itself.
2. output {string} The path where the file should be stored.

** Returns** Promise