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node-red/nodes/core/storage/28-tail.js
Nick O'Leary 105b25287f Reverting tail node change to fix build
Fixes #337

A useful change but need the corresponding tests to be updated and also properly publicised on the mailing list as it is a change in behaviour.
2014-08-13 22:43:15 +01:00

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/**
* Copyright 2013 IBM Corp.
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* you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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module.exports = function(RED) {
"use strict";
var fs = require("fs");
var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
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", 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.warn(data.toString());
});
this.on("close", function() {
if (tail) { tail.kill(); }
});
}
RED.nodes.registerType("tail",TailNode);
}