import { IExecuteFunctions } from 'n8n-core'; import { INodeExecutionData, INodeType, INodeTypeDescription, } from 'n8n-workflow'; import { readFile as fsReadFile, } from 'fs'; import { promisify } from 'util'; const fsReadFileAsync = promisify(fsReadFile); export class ReadBinaryFile implements INodeType { description: INodeTypeDescription = { displayName: 'Read Binary File', name: 'readBinaryFile', icon: 'fa:file-import', group: ['input'], version: 1, description: 'Reads a binary file from disk', defaults: { name: 'Read Binary File', color: '#449922', }, inputs: ['main'], outputs: ['main'], properties: [ { displayName: 'File Path', name: 'filePath', type: 'string', default: '', required: true, placeholder: '/data/example.jpg', description: 'Path of the file to read.', }, { displayName: 'Property Name', name: 'dataPropertyName', type: 'string', default: 'data', required: true, description: 'Name of the binary property to which to
write the data of the read file.', }, ], }; async execute(this: IExecuteFunctions): Promise { const items = this.getInputData(); const returnData: INodeExecutionData[] = []; const length = items.length as unknown as number; let item: INodeExecutionData; for (let itemIndex = 0; itemIndex < length; itemIndex++) { item = items[itemIndex]; const dataPropertyName = this.getNodeParameter('dataPropertyName', itemIndex) as string; const filePath = this.getNodeParameter('filePath', itemIndex) as string; let data; try { data = await fsReadFileAsync(filePath) as Buffer; } catch (error) { if (error.code === 'ENOENT') { throw new Error(`The file "${filePath}" could not be found.`); } throw error; } const newItem: INodeExecutionData = { json: item.json, binary: {}, }; if (item.binary !== undefined) { // Create a shallow copy of the binary data so that the old // data references which do not get changed still stay behind // but the incoming data does not get changed. Object.assign(newItem.binary, item.binary); } newItem.binary![dataPropertyName] = await this.helpers.prepareBinaryData(data, filePath); returnData.push(newItem); } return this.prepareOutputData(returnData); } }