node-red/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.js

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module.exports = function(RED) {
    "use strict";
    var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
    var plat = require('os').platform();

    if (plat.match(/^win/)) {
        throw "Info : Currently not supported on Windows.";
    }

    function TailNode(n) {
        RED.nodes.createNode(this,n);

        this.filename = n.filename;
        this.split = n.split;
        var node = this;

        var err = "";
        // TODO: rewrite to use node-tail
        var tail = spawn("tail", ["-F", "-n", "0", this.filename]);
        tail.stdout.on("data", function (data) {
            if (node.split) {
                // TODO: allow customisation of the line break - as we do elsewhere
                var strings = data.toString().split("\n");
                for (var s in strings) {
                    //TODO: should we really filter blanks? Is that expected?
                    if (strings[s] !== "") {
                        node.send({
                            topic: node.filename,
                            payload: strings[s]
                        });
                    }
                }
            }
            else {
                var msg = {
                    topic:node.filename,
                    payload: data.toString()
                };
                node.send(msg);
            }
        });

        tail.stderr.on("data", function(data) {
            node.error(data.toString());
        });

        this.on("close", function() {
            if (tail) { tail.kill(); }
        });
    }

    RED.nodes.registerType("tail",TailNode);
}