Action "fs.wait"

Wait for a file or directory to exists. Status will be set to "false" if the file already existed, considering that no change had occured. Otherwise it will be set to "true".

Example

const {$status} = await nikita.fs.wait({
  target: '/path/to/file_or_directory'
})
console.info(`File was created: ${$status}`)

Hooks

on_action =
  after: '@nikitajs/core/src/plugins/metadata/argument_to_config'
  handler: ({config}) ->
    config.target = [config.target] if typeof config.target is 'string'

Schema definitions

definitions =
  config:
    type: 'object'
    properties:
      'target':
        type: 'array'
        items: type: 'string'
        description: '''
        Paths to the files and directories.
        '''
      'interval':
        type: 'integer'
        default: 2000
        description: '''
        Time interval between which we should wait before re-executing the
        check, default to 2s.
        '''
    required: ['target']

Handler

handler = ({config, tools: {log}}) ->
  status = false
  # Validate parameters
  for target in config.target
    {exists} = await @fs.base.exists target
    continue if exists
    await @wait config.interval
    while true
      {exists} = await @fs.base.exists target
      break if exists
      status = true
      log message: "Wait for file to be created", level: 'INFO'
      await @wait config.interval
  status

Exports

module.exports =
  handler: handler
  hooks:
    on_action: on_action
  metadata:
    argument_to_config: 'target'
    definitions: definitions

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