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file_wrap.js - File Wrapper

This is a simple (safe) wrapper for file reading and writing, just like file_get_contents and file_put_contents in PHP:

file_wrap.js

/* 
   ver. 0.0001alpha 
   http://unitehowto.com
   BSD license 
*/

function safe_file_get(fn, otherwise) {
	try {
		var dir = opera.io.filesystem.mountSystemDirectory('storage');
		var txt = '';
		stream = dir.open(dir.resolve('/storage/'+fn),
			opera.io.filemode.READ);
		if (stream) {
			var bytes=stream.read( stream.bytesAvailable );
			stream.close();
			return bytes;
		};
		return txt;
	} catch(err) { // message: FILE_NOT_FOUND_ERR
		return otherwise;
	};
};

function safe_file_put(fn, txt) {
	try {
		var dir = opera.io.filesystem.mountSystemDirectory('storage');
		var stream = dir.open('/storage/'+fn, opera.io.filemode.WRITE);
		stream.write(txt);
		stream.close();
		return 1;
	} catch(err) { // message: FILE_NOT_FOUND_ERR
		return 0;
	};
};

How to use it

var file_contents = safe_file_get('filename.txt', 'default');

This will read contents of to /storage/filename.txt file.
'default' is the default value that will return if file was not found or something went wrong (some error happened).

var res = safe_file_put('filename.txt', 'This is great!')

This will write This is great! string to /storage/filename.txt

Minimum config.xml

This requires fileio library, so:

<widget>
  <widgetname>Test1</widgetname>
  <feature name="http://xmlns.opera.com/fileio">
  </feature>
  <feature name="http://xmlns.opera.com/webserver">
    <param name="type" value="service"/>
    <param name="servicepath" value="test"/>
  </feature>
</widget>

Thanks

Thanks to Simon Houston for fixing locking.

Slava V. [about me]

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