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+var path = require('path');
+var fs = require('fs');
+var utils = require('./utils');
+var del = require('./del');
+var writeJSON = utils.writeJSON;
+
+var cache = {
+ /**
+ * Load a cache identified by the given Id. If the element does not exists, then initialize an empty
+ * cache storage. If specified `cacheDir` will be used as the directory to persist the data to. If omitted
+ * then the cache module directory `./cache` will be used instead
+ *
+ * @method load
+ * @param docId {String} the id of the cache, would also be used as the name of the file cache
+ * @param [cacheDir] {String} directory for the cache entry
+ */
+ load: function (docId, cacheDir) {
+ var me = this;
+
+ me._visited = {};
+ me._persisted = {};
+ me._pathToFile = cacheDir ? path.resolve(cacheDir, docId) : path.resolve(__dirname, '../.cache/', docId);
+
+ if (fs.existsSync(me._pathToFile)) {
+ me._persisted = utils.tryParse(me._pathToFile, {});
+ }
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Load the cache from the provided file
+ * @method loadFile
+ * @param {String} pathToFile the path to the file containing the info for the cache
+ */
+ loadFile: function (pathToFile) {
+ var me = this;
+ var dir = path.dirname(pathToFile);
+ var fName = path.basename(pathToFile);
+
+ me.load(fName, dir);
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Returns the entire persisted object
+ * @method all
+ * @returns {*}
+ */
+ all: function () {
+ return this._persisted;
+ },
+
+ keys: function () {
+ return Object.keys(this._persisted);
+ },
+ /**
+ * sets a key to a given value
+ * @method setKey
+ * @param key {string} the key to set
+ * @param value {object} the value of the key. Could be any object that can be serialized with JSON.stringify
+ */
+ setKey: function (key, value) {
+ this._visited[key] = true;
+ this._persisted[key] = value;
+ },
+ /**
+ * remove a given key from the cache
+ * @method removeKey
+ * @param key {String} the key to remove from the object
+ */
+ removeKey: function (key) {
+ delete this._visited[key]; // esfmt-ignore-line
+ delete this._persisted[key]; // esfmt-ignore-line
+ },
+ /**
+ * Return the value of the provided key
+ * @method getKey
+ * @param key {String} the name of the key to retrieve
+ * @returns {*} the value from the key
+ */
+ getKey: function (key) {
+ this._visited[key] = true;
+ return this._persisted[key];
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Remove keys that were not accessed/set since the
+ * last time the `prune` method was called.
+ * @method _prune
+ * @private
+ */
+ _prune: function () {
+ var me = this;
+ var obj = {};
+
+ var keys = Object.keys(me._visited);
+
+ // no keys visited for either get or set value
+ if (keys.length === 0) {
+ return;
+ }
+
+ keys.forEach(function (key) {
+ obj[key] = me._persisted[key];
+ });
+
+ me._visited = {};
+ me._persisted = obj;
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Save the state of the cache identified by the docId to disk
+ * as a JSON structure
+ * @param [noPrune=false] {Boolean} whether to remove from cache the non visited files
+ * @method save
+ */
+ save: function (noPrune) {
+ var me = this;
+
+ !noPrune && me._prune();
+ writeJSON(me._pathToFile, me._persisted);
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * remove the file where the cache is persisted
+ * @method removeCacheFile
+ * @return {Boolean} true or false if the file was successfully deleted
+ */
+ removeCacheFile: function () {
+ return del(this._pathToFile);
+ },
+ /**
+ * Destroy the file cache and cache content.
+ * @method destroy
+ */
+ destroy: function () {
+ var me = this;
+ me._visited = {};
+ me._persisted = {};
+
+ me.removeCacheFile();
+ },
+};
+
+module.exports = {
+ /**
+ * Alias for create. Should be considered depreacted. Will be removed in next releases
+ *
+ * @method load
+ * @param docId {String} the id of the cache, would also be used as the name of the file cache
+ * @param [cacheDir] {String} directory for the cache entry
+ * @returns {cache} cache instance
+ */
+ load: function (docId, cacheDir) {
+ return this.create(docId, cacheDir);
+ },
+
+ /**
+ * Load a cache identified by the given Id. If the element does not exists, then initialize an empty
+ * cache storage.
+ *
+ * @method create
+ * @param docId {String} the id of the cache, would also be used as the name of the file cache
+ * @param [cacheDir] {String} directory for the cache entry
+ * @returns {cache} cache instance
+ */
+ create: function (docId, cacheDir) {
+ var obj = Object.create(cache);
+ obj.load(docId, cacheDir);
+ return obj;
+ },
+
+ createFromFile: function (filePath) {
+ var obj = Object.create(cache);
+ obj.loadFile(filePath);
+ return obj;
+ },
+ /**
+ * Clear the cache identified by the given id. Caches stored in a different cache directory can be deleted directly
+ *
+ * @method clearCache
+ * @param docId {String} the id of the cache, would also be used as the name of the file cache
+ * @param cacheDir {String} the directory where the cache file was written
+ * @returns {Boolean} true if the cache folder was deleted. False otherwise
+ */
+ clearCacheById: function (docId, cacheDir) {
+ var filePath = cacheDir ? path.resolve(cacheDir, docId) : path.resolve(__dirname, '../.cache/', docId);
+ return del(filePath);
+ },
+ /**
+ * Remove all cache stored in the cache directory
+ * @method clearAll
+ * @returns {Boolean} true if the cache folder was deleted. False otherwise
+ */
+ clearAll: function (cacheDir) {
+ var filePath = cacheDir ? path.resolve(cacheDir) : path.resolve(__dirname, '../.cache/');
+ return del(filePath);
+ },
+};