Fatal error: Unable to write "dist/" file (Error code: EISDIR).

[deanhume]

Hi

I am running the following configuration in my Gruntfile:

critical: {
        dist: {
            options: {
                base: './',
                width: 1300,
                height: 900
            },
            src: '**/*.html',
            dest: 'dist/'
        }
    }
})

The idea is that I pick up all HTML files and then dump them into my "dist" folder. When I run this, I unfortunately get the following error:

"Fatal error: Unable to write "dist/" file (Error code: EISDIR)."

If I run the task with --stack, I get the following output

Error: EISDIR, illegal operation on a directory 'C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\dist'
    at Object.fs.openSync (fs.js:427:18)
    at Object.fs.writeFileSync (fs.js:966:15)
    at Object.file.write (C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt\lib\grunt\file.js:296:10)
    at C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt-critical\tasks\critical.js:63:36
    at C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt-critical\node_modules\critical\index.js:275:13
    at tryCatcher (C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt-critical\node_modules\critical\node_modules\bluebird\js\main\util.js:24:31)
at Promise._settlePromiseFromHandler (C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt-critical\node_modules\critical\node_modules\bluebird\js\main\promise.js:454:31)
    at Promise._settlePromiseAt (C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt-critical\node_modules\critical\node_modules\bluebird\js\main\promise.js:530:18)
    at Promise._settlePromises (C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt-critical\node_modules\critical\node_modules\bluebird\js\main\promise.js:646:14)
    at Async._drainQueue (C:\Users\dean.hume\Documents\GitHub\typography\node_modules\grunt-critical\node_modules\critical\node_modules\bluebird\js\main\async.js:177:16)

[deanhume]

I've also tried running this without the subdirectory src, eg:

 src: '*.html',
 dest: 'dist/'

But unfortunately I still get the same error. I'm not sure if the task is looking for a file instead of a directory.....

[bezoerb]

try

files: [
    {cwd: '.', src: ['*.html'], dest: 'dist'}
]

[deanhume]

Hmmm...that didn't seem to work for me. I've created a pull request and fixed the issue. Let me know what you think!

[bezoerb]

@deanhume pr landed.

src: '*.html',
dest: 'dist/'

should work as expected. Wanna give it a try?

[deanhume]

Hmmmm...almost there - except I get a different error this time.

Fatal error: Maximum call stack size exceeded

I am running it against 12 files. Not sure, but my original pull request seemed to work. Any ideas?

Thanks for you help!

[deanhume]

If you need any more detail around this error, please let me know!

[bezoerb]

@deanhume more detail please ;) I'm not able to reproduce the call stack error on my side.

[bezoerb]

@deanhume any updates on this?

[michaelthorne]

Hey @bezoerb I'm also experiencing the same issue:

Running "critical:dist" (critical) task
Unhandled rejection RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
at new Error (native)
at Error (native)
at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:794:18)

And the critical Grunt task:

critical: {
    dist: {
        options: {
            base: './',
            css: [
                'dist/assets/css/style.css'
            ],
            ignore: ['@font-face'],
            width: 320,
            height: 480
        },
        src: ['dist/**/*.html'],
        dest: 'test/'
    }
},

It works fine if I change src to e.g. src: dist/index.html and dest to dest: dist/index.html i.e. replaces the existing file with the inline <style> element.

Versions:

npm 2.14.7 node 4.2.2

Windows 8.1

Any ideas? Thanks in advance!

[michaelthorne]

@bezoerb @deanhume the problem seems to be that src and dest only accept strings (file names).

If I change the Grunt task to:

src: 'dist/index.html',
dest: 'test/index.html'

It works as expected. If I change it to:

src: 'dist/index.html',
dest: 'test'

It creates a file test (without an extension) and works as expected (CSS is inlined).

If I change it to e.g.

src: 'dist/index.html',
dest: 'test/'

i.e. a directory test/ it throws this error:

Unhandled rejection RangeError: Maximum call stack size exceeded
    at new Error (native)
    at Error (native)
    at Object.fs.mkdirSync (fs.js:794:18)
    at mkdirsSync (C:\path_to_project\node_modules\grunt-critical\node_modules\fs-extra\lib\mkdirs\mkdirs-sync.js:22:9)

[bezoerb]

@michaelthorne thanks for the debugging :) I hope to have some time within the next days to provide a fix

[michaelthorne]

@bezoerb no worries! Let me know if there's any testing I can help with. Thanks.