vsivsi
commented
8 years ago Hi, thanks for your questions.
For 1) It probably depends what your deployment host allows. I know that some services have restrictions on access to the local filesystem (paths and capacity), so you'll be forced to figure out where and how much data you are allowed to write for import.
On 2): when you use resumable, it is determining the filetype based on the browser's mapping of file extensions to mime types. With 15 seconds of searching on npm, this node.js package seems to be wildly popular: https://www.npmjs.com/package/mime-types. On atmosphere there appears to be a meteor package based on a different npm package here: https://atmospherejs.com/patte/mime-npm
3) appears to be a bug in the createReadStream here: https://github.com/vsivsi/meteor-file-collection/blob/master/src/gridFS_server.coffee#L324 I'll fix that in the next release.
4) Thanks for noting.
dpatte
Thank you for your package. It is working great for me.
But I now have a few questions about a file migration that I am doing from another system into my app. I have hundreds of files including .doc and .xls files on another system that I would like to migrate into file collection in Meteor.
My thought was to sftp all the files into the app's private folder on my running deployed server then run a special migration function using fc.importFile to load them into my file collection. Initial tests on my dev system look promising, but I have a few questions, if you don't mind...
1) The filepath on my dev system is, for example: /home/dpatte/myapp/private/file1.xls. Using this full path in fc.importFile works great on my dev system, but when deployed the path will be different. Are there any recommendations as to where the files should be placed for import (does it matter?), and how would you recommend that I handle the fact that the path is different between my dev and deployed systems? The files will be sftp'd after the app is deployed.
2) In other places in my system where I use fc.Insert, I am using resumable, and it provides me with the contentType in file.file.type. What do you recommend I use to determine the filetype when using importFile?
3) If an expected file doesnt exist at path, a STDERR Error: ENOENT is thrown and the fc.importFile callback doesn't seem to see it. I see the server console message, the system rebuilds and goes into a rethrowing loop. I expected that the importFile callback would present the error to me to handle. How would I simply exit the current method in this case?
4) Finally, the initial comment in your sample for importFile is incorrect.
Thanks for your help.