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nedb/lib/customUtils.js

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var crypto = require('crypto')
, path = require('path')
;
/**
* Return a random alphanumerical string of length len
* There is a very small probability (less than 1/1,000,000) for the length to be less than len
* (il the base64 conversion yields too many pluses and slashes) but
* that's not an issue here
* The probability of a collision is extremely small (need 3*10^12 documents to have one chance in a million of a collision)
* See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
*/
function uid (len) {
return crypto.randomBytes(Math.ceil(Math.max(8, len * 2)))
.toString('base64')
.replace(/[+\/]/g, '')
.slice(0, len);
}
/**
* Return the path the datafile if the given filename is relative to the directory where Node Webkit stores
* data for this application. Probably the best place to store data
*/
function getNWAppFilename (appName, relativeFilename) {
var home;
switch (process.platform) {
case 'win32':
case 'win64':
home = process.env.LOCALAPPDATA || process.env.APPDATA;
if (!home) { throw "Couldn't find the base application data folder"; }
home = path.join(home, appName);
break;
case 'darwin':
home = process.env.HOME;
if (!home) { throw "Couldn't find the base application data directory"; }
home = path.join(home, 'Library', 'Application Support', appName);
break;
case 'linux':
home = process.env.HOME;
if (!home) { throw "Couldn't find the base application data directory"; }
home = path.join(home, '.config', appName);
break;
default:
throw "Can't use the Node Webkit relative path for platform " + process.platform;
break;
}
return path.join(home, 'nedb-data', relativeFilename);
}
module.exports.uid = uid;
module.exports.getNWAppFilename = getNWAppFilename;