storage-scout

This is (yet another) JSON-centric file-system-based storage API, using sander to store data in a folder in .json files, one file per data point.

API

There are five methods exposed:

storageScout.create

• Requires one parameter, a JSON string containing a data element.
• Returns a promise, with the data object with an ID added.

const data = '{"Name":"Dune", "Author":"Frank Herbert"}';

storageScout.create(data)
  .then (result => console.log(result)) // '{"Name":"Dune", "Author":"Frank Herbert", "id": "1"}'
  .catch (err => console.error(error));

storageScout.readAll

• Requires zero parameters.
• Returns a promise, with a JSON string with all data elements in an array.

storageScount.readAll()
  .then(results => console.log(results)) // '[{"Name":"Dune", "Author":"Frank Herbert", "id": "1"}]'
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

storageScout.readOne

• Requires one parameter, an ID as a string.
• Returns a promise, with a JSON string with the data element requested.

storageScount.readAll('1')
  .then(result => console.log(result)) //  '{"Name":"Dune", "Author":"Frank Herbert", "id": "1"}'
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

storageScout.update

• Requires two parameters, first, an ID as a string, second, a JSON string containing new data.
• Returns a promise, with the new data set.

const newData = '{"Name":"Dune Messiah", "Author":"Frank Herbert"}';
storageScout.update('1', newData)
  .then(result => console.log(result)) // '{"Name":"Dune Messiah", "Author":"Frank Herbert", "id": "1"}'
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

storageScout.delete

• Requires one parameter, an ID as a string.
• Returns a promise, a message confirming deletion of the ID

storageScout.delete('1')
  .then(result => console.log(result)) // '{"message":"1 deleted"}'
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

These are standard CRUD operations on data. Appropriate errors are returned if operations fail or if data provided is not valid JSON.

Thanks to Caitlin Araldi and Dave Hanagan for identifying a bug that causes the filestore to break when files such as .DS_store are present.