Watch for new files in a directory. Eat them and run jobs contained in them.
npm install -g gurgitator
gurgitator /path/to/jobs
The jobs directory should contain sub-directories for each type of job you want to process. In each sub-directory, you need a hook.js. The on-disk layout should look like this:
jobs
├─do_something
│ └─hook.js
├─node_modules
└─other_job
└─hook.js
hook.js should export a function that accepts three parameters:
- The path of the file being handled.
- An object containing the parsed JSON of the file being handled.
- A callback for when your handler is finished.
Like so:
module.exports = function (path, data, cb) {
console.log(path, "contains", data);
cb(); // Don't forget to call the callback!
};
To exercise this code, echo '{ "blah": "blah" } > /path/to/jobs/do_something/any_file_name.json'. The only restriction on file names is that they must have the .json extension. Gurgitator ignores all other extensions.