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level-serve

Streaming static file server based on LevelDB.

Usage

Store and serve a nice cat picture at /files/cat.png.

var Server = require('level-serve');
var level = require('level');
var http = require('http');
var fs = require('fs');

// initialize db and server
var db = level(__dirname + '/.server-db', { valueEncoding: 'binary' });
var server = Server(db);

// store cat
var ws = server.createWriteStream('cat.png');
fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/cat.png').pipe(ws);

// serve cat
http.createServer(server.handle.bind(server)).listen(8000);
console.log('go to http://localhost:8000' + server.url('cat.png'));

Caching

ETags are used to save bandwidth and reduce load.

Sublevels

With sublevels you can e.g. give a plugin or a user only access to a part of the database so they can't do anything harmful. The location in the sublevel tree is reflected in the resulting public url.

This concept involves two instances of level-serve.

One is read only and serves the whole database over http.
The other one is given to clients / plugins and they can write whatever they want, however only see their own section of the db, their sublevel.

var Server = require('level-serve');
var level = require('level');
var http = require('http');
var SubLevel = require('level-sublevel');
var fs = require('fs');

// initialize the db and give it sublevels
var db = level(__dirname + '/.sublevel-db', { valueEncoding: 'binary' });
SubLevel(db);

// initialize server for sublevel
var server = Server(db.sublevel('cool').sublevel('cats'));

// cat from sublevel "cool"."cats" will be served at /files/cool/cats/white.png
var ws = server.createWriteStream('white.png');
fs.createReadStream(__dirname + '/cat.png').pipe(ws);

// serve cat
var dbServer = Server(db);
http.createServer(dbServer.serve.bind(dbServer)).listen(8000);
console.log('or to http://localhost:8000' + dbServer.url('white.png'));

URLs

/files/ (sublevels /) file-id

Generate URLs using Server#url.

API

Server(db)

Make sure that db has been opened with valueEncoding: 'binary' if you want to serve binary files.

Server#handle(req, res[, next])

HTTP request handler. Pass this to http.createServer() or express for example.

If next is passed it will be called when errors happen or a requested file cannot be found.

Server#createWriteStream(file-id)

Store a file under file-id. If you give file-id an extension it will be served with the correct mime type.

Server#createReadStream(file-id)

Retrieve a file stored under file-id.

Server#store(file-id, data[, cb])

Store data as file-id. Convenience method that exposes the write stream in an async api.

Server#url(file-id)

Get the url of file-id, respecting sublevels.

Installation

With npm do

$ npm install level-serve

License

(MIT)

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