rosmaro-tools

CLI utilities for Rosmaro.

To get started, get npm and then simply type the following command in your terminal:

$ npx rosmaro-tools

Available commands are described below.

npx rosmaro-tools bindings:build path/to/the/bindings/folder

Generates a JavaScript file exporting a factory function that takes an object and returns another object which is meant to be used as Rosmaro bindings.

Let's say we have a Rosmaro model which consists of the following nodes:

• main
• main:A
• main:B
• main:B:A
• main:B:B

Rosmaro expects the bindings object to reflect the node hierarchy, like this:

{
  'main': {handler, lens, nodes},
  'main:A': {handler, lens, nodes},
  'main:B': {handler, lens, nodes},
  'main:B:A': {handler, lens, nodes},
  'main:B:B': {handler, lens, nodes},
}

As soon as the number of nodes grows, writing this by hand may be cumbersome. rosmaro-tools solves this problem by utilizing a directory-based convention.

Instead of manually building the bindings object, we create a directory which structure reflects the hierarchy of nodes of our graph:

$ tree -U
.
└── main
    ├── index.js
    ├── A
    │   └── index.js
    └── B
        ├── anotherFile.js
        ├── index.js
        ├── A
        │   └── index.js
        └── B
            └── index.js

The main/index.js file contains code related to the main binding. The main/A/index.js file contains code related to the main:A binding and so on. Files named differently are ignored by the generator. However, they may still be imported by index.js files.

Every index.js file is meant to have one default export - a binding factory. It looks like this:

export default (options) => ({

  // Somehow define these three.
  handler,
  lens,
  nodes
  
});

It's basically exporting a function that takes an arbitrary value and returns an object which is a Rosmaro binding. The options object is explained below.

As soon as we run $ npx rosmaro-tools bindings:build path/to/the/bindings/folder, it's going to generate an index.js file in the root directory:

$ npx rosmaro-tools bindings:build .
Generated index.js!
$ tree -U
.
├── index.js
└── main
    ├── index.js
    ├── A
    │   └── index.js
    └── B
        ├── anotherFile.js
        ├── index.js
        ├── A
        │   └── index.js
        └── B
            └── index.js

This automatically generated file exports a function taking an arbitrary value and returning an object with keys named after graph nodes. It follows this pattern:

export default (options) => ({
  'main': <the function exported from the main/index.js file>(options),
  'main:A': <the function exported from the main/A/index.js file>(options),
  'main:B': <the function exported from the main/B/index.js file>(options),
  'main:B:A': <the function exported from the main/B/A/index.js file>(options),
  'main:B:B': <the function exported from the main/B/B/index.js file>(options),
});

As we can see, it calls binding factories from each index.js file and builds an object which may be used as bindings for Rosmaro:

import rosmaro from 'rosmaro';
// ...
// This will import the generated index.js file.
import makeBindings from './bindings';

const bindings = makeBindings({parameters, passed, to, bindings, factories});
const model = rosmaro({graph, bindings});

Please remember that you can use symlinks in order to reuse bindings:

$ ln -s ToReuse Reused