# Module: fileOperations

Contains all of the functions required to do file operations on a physical/virtual hard drive and/or mounted volume. Including loading files, saving files, reloading files, resaving files, copying files, moving files, copying folders including copying folders recursively, zipping files and saving sip-packages as part of a deployment/release process.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Copyright:
  - Copyright © 2022-… by Seth Hollingsead. All rights reserved
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 1

### Requires

- module:ruleParsing
- module:configurator
- module:loggers
- @haystacks/constants
- adm-zip
- fs
- papaparse
- xml2js
- child_process
- process
- path

### Methods

#### (inner) appendMessageToFile(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Opens a file and appends a message to the file, then closes the file.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The fully qualified path and file name for the file that should be opened, appended and saved.
`inputMetaData` | string | The message that should be appended to the specified file.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 847

##### Returns:

A True or False to indicate if the append happened successfully or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) buildReleasePackage(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Add all the files from the source folder into a zip file and give a name to the file for the current date-time and release version, saving to the destination folder.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The folder that should be packaged up for the release zip file.
`inputMetaData` | string | The folder where the zip file release package should be saved.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 452

##### Returns:

A True or False value to indicate if the release package process is successful or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) cleanRootPath(inputData, inputMetaData) → {string}

Takes the application root path and cleans it to give a real root path. or top-level folder path for the application.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | Not used for this business rule.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rule.

Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 572

##### Returns:

The real rot path or top-level path for the application.

Type
  string

#### (inner) copyAllFilesAndFoldersFromFolderToFolder(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Copies all of the files and folders recursively from the source folder to the destination folder.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | array.<string> | An array containing the source and destination paths. Example: inputData[0] = source path inputData[1] = destination path
`inputMetaData` | array.<array.<string>> | Two array's of strings that are exclusions and inclusions, file filters that should be avoided during the copy process, the inclusion array over-rides the exclusion array. Example: filterArray[0] = exclusion array filterArray[1] = inclusion array

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 420

##### Returns:

A True or False value to indicate if the full copy process is successful or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) copyFileSync(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Reads the files from the source and copies them to the target, ignoring any files that match with any of the contents of the exclusionArray.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | array.<string> | An array containing the source and destination paths. Example: inputData[0] = source path inputData[1] = destination path
`inputMetaData` | array.<array.<string>> | Two array's of strings that are exclusions and inclusions, file filters that should be avoided during the copy process, the inclusions array over-rides the exclusion array. Example: inputMetaData[0] = exclusionArray inputMetaData[1] = inclusionArray

Author:
  - Simon Zyx
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 597

##### Returns:

A True or False to indicate if the copy operation was successful or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) copyFolderRecursiveSync(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Copies a folder and all of its files and sub-folders and sub-files recursively.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | array.<string> | An array containing the source and destination paths. Example: inputData[0] = source path inputData[1] = destination path
`inputMetaData` | array.<array.<string>> | Two array's of strings that are exclusions and inclusions, file filters that should be avoided during the copy process, the inclusion array over-rides the exclusion array. Example: inputMetaData[0] = exclusionArray inputMetaData[1] = inclusionArray

Author:
  - Simon Zyx
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 676

##### Returns:

A True or False value to indicate fi the copy operation was a success or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) createZipArchive(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Creates a new zip archive of the files listed in the input array, and saves the file to the specified file path and name.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | array.<string> | All the folders and paths to include in the zip archive.
`inputMetaData` | string | The full path and file name to the destination where the zip file should be saved.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 536

##### Returns:

A True or False value to indicate if the zip file was created successfully or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) deleteFile(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Deletes a file at the specified file path and file name.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The fully qualified path and file name for the file that should be deleted.
`inputMetaData` | string | The current working directory.

Author:
  - Karl-Edward F.P. Jean-Mehu
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 778

##### Returns:

A True or False to indicate if the delete was successful or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) getCsvData(inputData, inputMetaData) → {object}

Loads the specified file and parses it into JSON objects.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path and file name of the CSV file that should be loaded and parsed into JSON objects.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 91

##### Returns:

The JSON object as it was loaded from the file with minimal to no additional processing.

Type
  object

#### (inner) getDirectoryList(inputData, inputMetaData) → {array.<string>}

Scans the specified path and returns the list of folders at that level. Does not scan recursively.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path that should be scanned for getting a folder list at that folder level.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 313

##### Returns:

The list of folders found at the specified path.

Type
  array.<string>

#### (inner) getJsonData(inputData, inputMetaData) → {object}

Loads the specified file and parses it into a JSON object(s).

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path and file name of the JSON file that should be loaded and parsed into JSON objects.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 125

##### Returns:

The JSON object as it was loaded from the file with minimal to no additional processing.

Type
  object

#### (inner) getXmlData(inputData, inputMetaData) → {object}

Loads the specified file and parses it into JSON objects, all strings.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path and file name of the XML file that should be loaded and parsed into JSON objects.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 55

##### Returns:

A parsed JSON object containing all of the data, meta-data, objects, values and attributes that were stored in the specified XML file.

Type
  object

#### (inner) loadAsciiFileFromPath(inputData, inputMetaData) → {object}

Loads the contents of the ASCII file at the specified path and file name, returns the entire contents of the file.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path and file name of the file that should have its contents loaded into memory for reading and parsing.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rules.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 211

##### Returns:

The contents of the file loaded, False if nothing was loaded.

Type
  object

#### (inner) readDirectoryContents(inputData, inputMetaData) → {object}

This function acts as a wrapper for calling readDirectorySynchronously since that function is recursive. Also that function doesn't technically return anything, it works with a global variable that needs to be reset after the work is done with it. So these are the things that this wrapper function can do.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path that needs to be scanned.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 237

##### Returns:

An object containing any array of all the files in the folder and all sub-folders.

Type
  object

#### (inner) readDirectorySynchronously(inputData, inputMetaData) → {object}

Recursively parses through all the sub-folders in a given path and loads all of the files contained in each sub-folder into a map.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The system path that should be scanned recursively for files.
`inputMetaData` | string | Not used for this business rule.

Author:
  - wn050
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 344

##### Returns:

A map of all the files contained in all levels of the specified path in all the folders and sub-folders.

Type
  object

#### (inner) scanDirectoryContents(inputData, inputMetaData) → {array.<string>}

This function also acts as a wrapper for calling readDirectorySynchronously since that function is recursive. The difference between this function and the readDirectoryContents is that this function has an optional limit on the number of files to return. Really this is used for scanning large volumes of data such as the entire C-Drive. This way the user can control the number of files that are returned by the system. The user might only want 10,000 files or just the first million files found. etc...

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path that should be scanned for files including all sub-folders and all sub-files.
`inputMetaData` | array.<boolean, integer> | An array that contains a boolean flag for enable the limit and an integer for what the limit should be: inputMetaData[0] = enableLimit - True or False to indicate if the boolean limit should be enabled or not. inputMetaData[1] = filesLimit - The number of files that should be limited when scanning, if the enableLimit is set to True.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 269

##### Returns:

An array of all the files in the folder up to the limit if specified.

Type
  array.<string>

#### (inner) writeAsciiData(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Writes out a string of ASCII data to the specified file and path location, it will automatically over-write any existing file.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path and file name for the file that should have data written to it.
`inputMetaData` | string | The data that should be written to the specified file.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 182

##### Returns:

True or False to indicate if the file was written out successfully or not.

Type
  boolean

#### (inner) writeJsonData(inputData, inputMetaData) → {boolean}

Writes out JSON data to the specified file and path location, it will automatically over-write any existing file.

##### Parameters:

Name | Type | Description
--- | --- | ---
`inputData` | string | The path and file name for the file that should have data written to it.
`inputMetaData` | object | The data that should be written to the specified file.

Author:
  - Seth Hollingsead
Source:
  - businessRules/rules/fileOperations.js, line 153

##### Returns:

True of False to indicate if the file was written out successfully or not.

Type
  boolean