I'm currently working on a project called 'pwManager', it is basically meant to store passwords, but since all the information is stored upon my 1tb hard drive, and it is just a project, I think that a database may be to heavy of a program on my laptop. In this scenario I was recommended to use a .csv file to store the information, but I was thinking about appending information to a .json file using AJAX. So what should I do?
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If you're going to read it with javascript, using a json file would be easier although a csv file doesn't add that much complexity.
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I have a relatively simple task that I want to achieve, but I am totally stumped on how to achieve it. I want to create an HTML page that allows users to select a local JSON file. I want to pass the path to this local file to some Javascript code. Then I want to read that file using Javascript every time the file changes.
I've investigated a few different methods for achieving this. First, I tried just using Javascript. This worked great until I wanted to read the file multiple times as it was changing. Evidently there are security concerns that make this impossible.
Next, I investigated using Node.js to solve this problem. It has some file utilities that seem perfect, and it's server-side, which may help with the security issues. But using just Node, I couldn't figure out how to select a local file in HTML and pass the path to the Javascript code. From investigation online, it seems like Express.js would be useful.
So now I'm trying to use Node.js and Express.js. Now I can figure out the file name from an HTML form! But I can't figure out the path to the local file so that I can read it using the Node file utilities... From looking at similar questions online, it looks like everyone uploads files, then reads them. Is that what I have to do with Express? If so, is it possible for me to monitor changes to the original file, upload the file when those changes get made, then read the changed file? Is what I'm trying to do possible? If so, does anyone have any recommendations on libraries/modules to use? Thank you so much for any help - please let me know if I can be more clear about anything.
How do I parse zip file string. I looked for hours I couldn't find an easy to do it. All the examples I found didn't make much sense.
I use zipjs to handle zip files. A simple library that can handle reading and writing zip files.
BE MORE CLEAR NEXT TIME. I think this answer is what you need to hear.
A zip file can not be parsed with simple JavaScript. There is simply no native function that can ope ZIP files. There are certain libraries out there, but personally i have not found one that worked properly, and most use some kind of flash plugin to make it "work".
If you really want a zip file to be presented in Javascript, you will have to build its function with PHP. PHP can write to zip files, and read them: PHP ZIP. If you want to read the contents of a zip file, you would have to upload the file to the server (can be done with JS), then make the PHP return a JSON object with all the file_info of all the files inside the ZIP. And last but not least, JS should be able to acces another PHP page that retrieves a particular file, which can be done by reading the file and setting a mimetype before outputting its contents.
I've been doing Code Year at Codecademy and I wanted to start practicing Javascript for myself, but I've been having a tough time figuring out some basic issues.
For my first project, I want to read in from a spreadsheet. I can't figure out how to access the data from its original source online, so I thought I would just save it as a text file. My question, then, is how to read from that.
So it looks like you can't read local files in Javascript. (Although apparently that's changing with HTML5? I don't have any familiarity with that.) So do I have to upload the text file someplace? Can I upload files to JS Bin? If not, does anyone have any recommendations for where I can upload the text file? And either way, once I do, what's the code to read from it?
Thanks in advance. I am sure this question is riddled with misstatements and improprieties, but I've spent a significant amount of time on this and I can't find anything that seems to answer my question. I honestly thought it would be something simple, like "var inputfile = c:\file.txt" but that seems not to be the case. I am totally lost. Thanks!
You can't. File system and storages in Javascript (or rather the client) is sandboxed.
That means you can only read what is written there in the first place. This has to do with security.
You will need to drop (or select) the local files into the browser and have some mechanism there to receive the drop/selection and store the file to one of the local storing mechanisms such as indexedDB or file API (the latter currently only supported in Chrome). For text files localStorage works fine too.
Resources:
http://updates.html5rocks.com/2011/08/Saving-generated-files-on-the-client-side
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_webstorage.asp
http://www.w3.org/TR/webstorage/
http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/
http://www.w3.org/TR/IndexedDB/
The other option is to upload it to server and download it from there when you need it.
When you get to this point in your development, its time to run your own webserver for testing as it makes things much easier. If you must insist on doing it your way, uploading the file to a file hosting site and reading it in is still possible. Codecademy is great for getting started, but when you get into dealing with persistent data sources (either files or databases) its time to get web hosting or set up your own test server.
Even then you don't REALLY need your own test server, just a folder on your computer. You can access the files with File://, and link in the file you want to read as a relative path. If the .txt file is in the same directory, you just link it in as "Example.txt" when you open the html file in that directory.
In my new Ruby on rails application I want to find the users country code.
So I am using MaxMind GeoIp. when I downloaded the gzip file after gunzip it gives me a GeoIP.dat file and I am stuck here. Can any one help.
If their is a program to open it or some procedure to use it.
Or if any one can suggest me the other way.
As #Kyle pointed out, you can download "human-readable" CSV files instead of binary DAT files. MaxMind's "GeoLite" downloads are here.
The CSV file format is described here.
But note (from the link above):
Due to the large size of geolocation databases, we generally recommend using our binary format with one of our APIs, since they are highly optimized for speed and disk space. On the other hand, if you have a requirement to import the data into a SQL database, the CSV format is recommended.
The APIs are listed here. There is no Javascript API listed, but there are a couple of options for Ruby.
So to answer your question directly: You would not "open" the dat file directly as you would a spreadsheet document. Instead you would write your own program that uses their API to read the dat file, and perform whatever tasks or queries you design it to do. Check out their API documentation for details of how you might get started with that.
.dat is just a file extension. The contents could be anything. Text. Binary data etc...
There is no way anyone could reliably tell you how to open the file.
I would attempt to view the contents of the file from the command line:
less file_name.dat
You can open the file and read line by line in ruby like this:
IO.readlines('file_name.dat').each do |line|
# do something with the line
end
Edit: I think I found the file you're refering to. Why not go here and download a csv version? The .dat version is not in plain text.
This is a file stored locally, not on a server, so Server Side Includes do not work.
Problem:
I have an HTML file. There is lots of data in it, I want to split it into smaller parts, and then just include them all into my big html file, i.e. something like:
main.html
<include "partA.html">
<include "partB.html">
<include "partC.html">
And I want the result as if the contents of partA,B,C.html were read right into main.html
Now, this is not on a server -- it's stored locally, so I can't do SSI. My question is:
Is there some simple way to do this via JavaScript? It seems like with JavaScript, I shoudl be able to:
fetch the contents of blah.html [not sure how to do this ste[
call a document.write on it, to write it into the document
probably handle some stuff dealing with escaping strings
Question:
How do I do this?
Thanks!
It's not possible, as a security feature. This post here is a discussion on the topic - Includes without local server?. As the answers say, your best best is to install a small web server on the machine if you can. They're not too hard to get going.
I have used nginx before with good results. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx
HTML5Rocks has a tutorial on how to read local files using HTML5's File API:
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/dndfiles/
Outside this, Javascript generally does not have the ability to access local filesystems.
Update - I assumed the main file was on a server, and you wanted that file to access local files. On re-reading, it appears all your files are local, in which case, some of the answers below will work.