Visit How to generate hash from a file or string in Node.js to see the full tutorial on Node.js Crypto module which helps us to make a hash from a string or file.
Open the walker.js, which we created on Creating pause and resume-able file walker, and add crypto = require('crypto') as mentioned in following code with bold font to include crypto module:
//walker.js
const fs = require('fs'),
crypto = require('crypto'),
path = require('path'),
{EventEmitter} = require('events');
constructor (debug)...
...
Next, edit the start method and add this.generateHash(file, stat); after the this.emit('file',entry,stat); line to invoke the generateHash method as shown below:
if (stat.isFile()){
if (this.filter_file(entry,stat)){
this.debug&&console.log('filterFile: '+entry);
return this.next();
}
this.debug&&console.log('File: '+entry);
this.emit('file',entry,stat);
this.generateHash(entry,stat);
this.next();
}
Now, we’ll create the generateHash method, as shown below:
generateHash(file,stat){
const defaultLength = 4200,
len = stat.size < defaultLength
? stat.size
: defaultLength,
pos = 0, offset =0;
fs.open(file, 'r', (err, fd) => {
if (err) {
this.emit('error',err,file,stat);
this.debug&&console.log(err);
return;
}
const buffer = Buffer.alloc(len);
fs.read(fd, buffer, offset, len, pos,
(err, bytesRead, buffer) => {
if (err){
this.emit('error',err,file,stat);
this.debug&&console.log(err);
return;
}
fs.close(fd, (err) => {
if (err){
this.emit('error',err,file,stat);
this.debug&&console.log(err);
return;
}
});
const hash = crypto
.createHash('whirlpool')
.update(buffer)
.digest('hex');
this.emit('hash',file,stat,buffer,hash);
this.debug&&console.log('hash emitted');
return;
});
})
}
The defaultLength = 4200 shows we’ll read the first 4200 bytes from a file or entire file if the file is small in size, see code: len = stat.size < defaultLength ? stat.size : defaultLength. The rest of code is already described on following pages:
Next, we’ll modify the constructor method by moving all properties to new method except super() and debug = debug ? true : false :
constructor (entry,debug){
super();
this.isPaused = false;
this.queue = [];
this.debug = debug ? true : false;
this.filter_dir = () => false;
this.filter_file = () => false;
this.start(entry);
}
The modified constructor has only one parameter and it not accept an entry:
constructor (debug){
super();
this.debug = debug ? true : false;
this.reset(debug);
}
We’ll create the deleted properties inside the reset() method, it is useful when we externally need to reset the FileWalker class:
reset(){
this.isPaused = false;
this.queue = [];
this.filter_dir = () => false;
this.filter_file = () => false;
}
Next, we create a new method to accept an entry to scan a directory:
addToQueue(entry){
Array.isArray(entry)
? Array.prototype.push.apply (this.queue, entry)
: this.queue.push (entry)
}
The addToQueue method accepts a string or array and add the received entry into the queue.
Now how we’ll use this FileWalker class:
//walkerHelper.js const walker = new walkerClass(); walker.addToQueue(['/a/path','/b/path']); walker.next();
Our FileWalker class has been almost completed. Click here to download the new FileWalker class.
Next we’ll create a walkerHelper.js file which runs as a child process to separate the GUI thread (Electron renderer process) from the fs extensive processing. And then we create a Storage class to store files, hashes and stats received by FileWalker class and use these information to find duplicate files.
