Bashlib

For documentation and a tutorial, please visit the Bashlib Website.

The Bashlib-solid library provides a set of functions for interacting with Solid environments from Node.JS and the CLI. The aim is to provide shell-like functionality to facility the use of and development for the Solid ecosystem with a low requirement of specific knowledge of Solid and LDP.

This library makes use of the Developer tools by inrupt for Solid to support authorization, authentication and resource loading. To support querying requirements, this library makes use of the Comunica Query engine.

Bashlib features in progress

• [X] Improve token management
• [X] Improve session management
• [X] Handle metadata
• [ ] Handling multiple pods for a given WebID (pim:storage)
• [X] multi parameter removes: rm file1 file2 file3
• [ ] Fixing session refresh. Current implementation can have time-out isssues with longer commands.
• [ ] Make sure discovery of pim:storage and ldp:inbox are according to spec!
• [X] Resource verification on edit (compare before / after hash and notify if something may have changed)
• [ ] Write concrete test cases and spin up local pod server to test
• [ ] Improve consistency of internal logging
• [ ] Improve consistency of exported Javascript interface
• [ ] Add WebID parameter to force using specific webid
• [ ] Add output parameter to log to specified file
• [ ] Improve error handling messaging
• [X] npm release
• [ ] Refactor to use components.js for dynamic extension with new utilities