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Node-Red node template for host filing system handling

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Thoughts on required nodes #3

Open TotallyInformation opened 7 years ago

TotallyInformation commented 7 years ago

[x] We need a node to do file/folder list/search operations - with multi-msg and array options for output. Supporting wildcards/globbing.
- [ ] Add dropdown choice of files/directories or both (NB: see issue re upstream bug)
- [ ] Add topic to config
- [ ] Add input sanitation to parameters
- [ ] Switch from text input to selectable types of input (msg.xxx, flow.xxx, JSONata, etc) for start, pattern & depth parameters
- [ ] Add max files to process (to prevent out of memory errors)
- [ ] Add more parameter overrides to inbound msg processing
[ ] A node to do file copy operations - started
[ ] A node to do file move operations
[ ] A node to do file delete operations
[ ] A node to create folders
[ ] A node to create links
[ ] A node to return file/folder information including size, type, ACL

And some general design thoughts:

All file nodes should be able to take inputs such as the file name to operate on & should recognise the current OS users home folder where appropriate (probably only on Linux, maybe Mac? since on Windows environment vars can be used) with a note in the docs to make it clear that the "user" concerned is the one running Node-RED.
All the nodes should support globbing where appropriate

Other ideas to think about

Maybe switch from readdirp to klaw which used to be fs-extra/walk.

rcarmo commented 4 years ago

I’d like to have a couple of nodes to read and write/append to files that followed the same message conventions - the ones that ship with Node-RED are fiddly to use in general...

TotallyInformation commented 4 years ago

Thanks for the feedback Rui.