Docs for filesystem adaptor update (#5169)

* rebased to master

* cleanup typos

* typo
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Joshua Fontany
2020-12-01 09:36:38 -08:00
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created: 20161015114118243
modified: 20161015170604353
modified: 20201201000000000
tags: TiddlyWikiFolders
title: tiddlywiki.files Files
type: text/vnd.tiddlywiki
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Directory specifications in the `directories` array may take the following forms
** ''path'' - (required) the absolute or relative path to the directory containing the tiddler files (relative paths are interpreted relative to the path of the `tiddlywiki.files` file). Note that the directory is not recursively searched; sub-directories are ignored
** ''filesRegExp'' - (optional) a [[regular expression|https://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions]] that matches the filenames of the files that should be processed within the directory
** ''isTiddlerFile'' - (required) if `true`, the file will be treated as a [[tiddler file|TiddlerFiles]] and deserialised to extract the tiddlers. Otherwise, the raw content of the file is assigned to the `text` field without any parsing
** ''isEditableFile'' - (optional) if `true`, changes to the tiddler be saved back to the original file. <<.from-version "5.1.23">>
** ''isEditableFile'' - (optional) if `true`, changes to the tiddler be saved back to the original file. The ''path'' of the current directory being read must be within the wiki's base directory, and a $:/config/FileSystemPath filter is required to add the correct logical path to the tiddler's title (see second **Example**). <<.from-version "5.1.23">>
** ''fields'' - (required) an object containing values that override or customise the fields provided in the tiddler file (see above)
Fields can be overridden for particular files by creating a file with the same name plus the suffix `.meta` -- see TiddlerFiles.
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ There are also several examples of `tiddlywiki.files` files in the main [[Tiddly
!! Importing a folder of PDFs
This example retrieves all the files with the extension `.pdf` from a folder specified by a relative path. Each tiddler is set up for LazyLoading with the following fields:
This example retrieves all the files with the extension `.pdf` from a folder specified by a relative path. This path starts with "../../../" indicating 3 directory levels above the folder holdng this confog fole. Each tiddler is set up for LazyLoading with the following fields:
* ''title'' - set to the URI decoded base filename of the PDF file. [[URI decoding|https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/decodeURIComponent]] allows characters like "/" to be included in titles by URI encoding them as "%2F"
* ''created'' - set to the creation date/time of the PDF file
@@ -94,3 +94,39 @@ This example retrieves all the files with the extension `.pdf` from a folder spe
]
}
```
!! Importing a folder of text files
This example retrieves all the files with the extension `.txt` from a folder specified by a relative path. This folder is within the wiki's base directory, and the current config file is in a directory within the wiki's "tiddlers/" directory. So, in this case the path starts with "../../" to traverse upwards two directory levels, and then down into the "externalnotes/" directory. Each tiddler is set up with the following fields:
* ''title'' - set to the URI decoded base filename of the text file. [[URI decoding|https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/decodeURIComponent]] allows characters like "/" to be included in titles by URI encoding them as "%2F"
* ''created'' - set to the creation date/time of the text file
* ''modified'' - set to the modification date/time of the text file
* ''type'' - set to `text/plain`
* ''tags'' - set to `[[note]] [[externalnote]]` (using array notation)
* ''text'' - not set, thus the content of the file is loaded as the text field
```
{
"directories": [
{
"path": "../../externalnotes",
"filesRegExp": ".+\\.txt",
"isTiddlerFile": false,
"isEditableFile": true,
"fields": {
"title": {"source": "basename-uri-decoded"},
"created": {"source": "created"},
"modified": {"source": "modified"},
"type": "text/plain",
"tags": ["note", "externalnote", ".txt"]
}
}
]
}
```
This will load all text files in the `<wikiBase>/externalnotes/` directory into the wiki as individual tiddlers. These can be a collection of snippets in various markup-languages. Then, the `type` field of each of these tiddlers can be changed to match their languages For example, "text/vnd.tiddlywiki" for wikitext, or "text/markdown" for markdown files. Then, using $:/config/FileSystemPaths and $:/config/FileSystemExtentions tiddlers with the following lines we can cause any changes to these tiddlers to be saved back to the directory they started from, and as "*.txt" files with accompanying "*.txt.meta" files. These meta files will then over-ride any fields generated from the config `tiddlywiki.files` file (such as the tiddler's `type` field) when the server is restarted.
From the examples in [[Customising Tiddler File Naming]] we see that the `[tag[externalnote]addprefix[../externalnotes/]]` filter in the $:/config/FileSystemPaths tiddler catches all tiddlers tagged with `externalnotes` (that have not matched an earlier filter). These tiddlers have "../externalnotes/" appended to their titles to render the final logical path. As this path starts in the wiki's "tiddlers/" folder by default (one folder above the folder holding the above config file) it differes by one set of "../".
Then, the `[tag[.txt]then[.txt]]` filter in the $:/config/FileSystemExtensions tiddler forces all these text files (which start with tag ".txt") to be saved back to disk as *.txt and accompanying *.txt.meta files (overriding the normal tiddler-type to file-type mapping). In this case, allowing the snippets of Tiddlywiki wikitext or markdown-text to be saved back to "text" *.txt files.