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A sandboxed node.js module loader that lets you inject dependencies into your modules.

Installation

npm install sandboxed-module

Usage

var SandboxedModule = require('sandboxed-module');
var user = SandboxedModule.require('./user', {
  requires: {'mysql': {fake: 'mysql module'}},
  globals: {myGlobal: 'variable'},
  locals: {myLocal: 'other variable'},
});

What to do with this

This module is intended to ease dependency injection for unit testing. However, feel free to use it for whatever crimes you can think of.

API

SandboxedModule.load(moduleId, [options])

Returns a new SandboxedModule where moduleId is a regular module path / id as you would normally pass into require(). The new module will be loaded in its own v8 context, but otherwise have access to the normal node.js environment.

options is an optional object that can be used to inject any of the following:

SandboxedModule.require(moduleId, [options])

Identical to SandboxedModule.load(), but returns sandboxedModule.exports directly.

SandboxedModule.configure(options)

Sets options globally across all uses of SandboxedModule.load() and SandboxedModule.require(). This way, a commonly needed require, global, local, or sourceTransformer can be specified once across all sandboxed modules.

SandboxedModule.registerBuiltInSourceTransformer(name)

Enables a built-in source transformer by name. Currently, SandboxedModule ships with two built in source transformers:

For example, if you'd like to use SandboxedModule in conjunction with istanbul, just run SandboxedModule.registerBuiltInSourceTransformer('istanbul').

sandboxedModule.filename

The full path to the module.

sandboxedModule.module

The underlaying node.js Module instance.

sandboxedModule.exports

A getter returning the sandboxedModule.module.exports object.

sandboxedModule.globals

The global object of the v8 context this module was loaded in. Modifications to this object will be reflected in the sandboxed module.

sandboxedModule.locals

The local variables injected into the sandboxed module using a closure. Modifying this object has no effect on the state of the sandbox.

sandboxedModule.required

An object holding a list of all module required by the sandboxed module itself. The keys are the moduleIds used for the require calls.

sandboxedModule.sourceTransformers

An object of named functions which will transform the source code required with SandboxedModule.require. For example, CoffeeScript & istanbul support is implemented with built-in sourceTransformer functions (see #registerBuiltInSourceTransformer).

A source transformer receives the source (as it's been transformed thus far) and must return the transformed source (whether it's changed or unchanged).

An example source transformer to change all instances of the number "3" to "5" would look like this:

SandboxedModule.require('../fixture/baz', {
  sourceTransformers: {
    turn3sInto5s: function(source) {
      return source.replace(/3/g,'5');
    }
  }
})

License

sandboxed-module is licensed under the MIT license.