Implementations need to implement the ILibraryStorage interface and pass it to H5PEditor. It is used to persist library information and files permanently. Note that the library metadata and semantics are accessed regularly, so caching them is a good idea. The library files will also be accessed frequently, so it makes sense to keep them in memory and not access a hard disk every time they are downloaded. See the FileLibraryStorage sample implementation in the examples directory for more details.

interface ILibraryStorage {
    addFile(
        library: ILibraryName,
        filename: string,
        readStream: Readable,
    ): Promise<boolean>;
    addLibrary(
        libraryData: ILibraryMetadata,
        restricted: boolean,
    ): Promise<IInstalledLibrary>;
    clearFiles(library: ILibraryName): Promise<void>;
    deleteLibrary(library: ILibraryName): Promise<void>;
    fileExists(library: ILibraryName, filename: string): Promise<boolean>;
    getAllDependentsCount(): Promise<{ [ubername: string]: number }>;
    getDependentsCount(library: ILibraryName): Promise<number>;
    getFileAsJson(library: ILibraryName, file: string): Promise<any>;
    getFileAsString(library: ILibraryName, file: string): Promise<string>;
    getFileStats(library: ILibraryName, file: string): Promise<IFileStats>;
    getFileStream(library: ILibraryName, file: string): Promise<Readable>;
    getInstalledLibraryNames(machineName?: string): Promise<ILibraryName[]>;
    getLanguages(library: ILibraryName): Promise<string[]>;
    getLibrary(library: ILibraryName): Promise<IInstalledLibrary>;
    isInstalled(library: ILibraryName): Promise<boolean>;
    listAddons(): Promise<ILibraryMetadata[]>;
    listFiles(library: ILibraryName): Promise<string[]>;
    updateAdditionalMetadata(
        library: ILibraryName,
        additionalMetadata: Partial<IAdditionalLibraryMetadata>,
    ): Promise<boolean>;
    updateLibrary(
        libraryMetadata: ILibraryMetadata,
    ): Promise<IInstalledLibrary>;
}

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Methods

  • Adds a library file to a library. The library metadata must have been installed with addLibrary(...) first. Throws an error if something unexpected happens. In this case the method calling addFile(...) will clean up the partly installed library.

    Parameters

    • library: ILibraryName

      The library that is being installed

    • filename: string

      Filename of the file to add, relative to the library root

    • readStream: Readable

    Returns Promise<boolean>

    true if successful

  • Adds the metadata of the library to the repository and assigns a new id to the installed library. This dea is used later when the library must be referenced somewhere. Throws errors if something goes wrong.

    Parameters

    • libraryData: ILibraryMetadata
    • restricted: boolean

      True if the library can only be used be users allowed to install restricted libraries.

    Returns Promise<IInstalledLibrary>

    The newly created library object to use when adding library files with addFile(...)

  • Counts how often libraries are listed in the dependencies of other libraries and returns a list of the number.

    Note: Implementations should not count circular dependencies that are caused by editorDependencies. Example: H5P.InteractiveVideo has H5PEditor.InteractiveVideo in its editor dependencies. H5PEditor.Interactive video has H5P.InteractiveVideo in its preloaded dependencies. In this case H5P.InteractiveVideo should get a dependency count of 0 and H5PEditor.InteractiveVideo should have 1. That way it is still possible to delete the library from storage.

    Returns Promise<{ [ubername: string]: number }>

    an object with ubernames as key. Example: { 'H5P.Example': 10 } This means that H5P.Example is used by 10 other libraries.

  • Returns a readable stream of a library file's contents. Throws an exception if the file does not exist.

    Parameters

    Returns Promise<Readable>

    a readable stream of the file's contents

  • Returns all installed libraries or the installed libraries that have the machine name.

    Parameters

    • OptionalmachineName: string

      (optional) only return libraries that have this machine name

    Returns Promise<ILibraryName[]>

    the libraries installed

  • Gets a list of installed language files for the library.

    Parameters

    Returns Promise<string[]>

    The list of JSON files in the language folder (without the extension .json)

  • Returns a list of library addons that are installed in the system. Addons are libraries that have the property 'addTo' in their metadata. ILibraryStorage implementation CAN but NEED NOT implement the method. If it is not implemented, addons won't be available in the system.

    Returns Promise<ILibraryMetadata[]>

  • Updates the additional metadata properties that is added to the stored libraries. This metadata can be used to customize behavior like restricting libraries to specific users.

    Implementations should avoid updating the metadata if the additional metadata if nothing has changed.

    Parameters

    Returns Promise<boolean>

    true if the additionalMetadata object contained real changes and if they were successfully saved; false if there were not changes. Throws an error if saving was not possible.