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hussain
hussain

Reputation: 7093

path is being added to filename using nodejs fs module?

I am trying to create a file and save to path with below code its creating file into records directory but filename is coming as ./app/records/server2b22f465-f7c9-4131-b462-93bc19760ab1.txt path is included in file name , what i am missing so i can only save filename without the path into records folder ?

main.js

var uuid = require('node-uuid');
var fs = require('fs');
var path = './app/records'

var userLogs = function (data) {
    var filename = 'server' + uuid.v4() + '.txt';
    var file = path + '/' + filename;
    fs.writeFile(file,data,function () {
        console.log(file);
    });
    console.log('userLogs', data);
};
module.exports = userLogs;

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1081

Answers (1)

pizzarob
pizzarob

Reputation: 12029

I believe that the path you pass to fs.writeFile needs to be absolute. You can use node's native path module to resolve a relative path to an absolute path. The method to do so is path.resolve().

So try this:

var uuid = require('node-uuid');
var fs = require('fs');
var path = require('path');
var filePath = path.resolve('./app/records');

var userLogs = function (data) {
    var filename = 'server' + uuid.v4() + '.txt';
    var file = filePath + '/' + filename;
    fs.writeFile(file,data,function () {
        console.log(file);
    });
    console.log('userLogs', data);
};
module.exports = userLogs;

Edit: fs.writeFile does not need an absolute path

According to the Node fs docs:

https://nodejs.org/api/fs.html#fs_file_system

The relative path to a filename can be used. Remember, however, that this path will be relative to process.cwd()

Upvotes: 1

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