import type { IExecuteFunctions, INodeExecutionData, INodeType, INodeTypeDescription, } from 'n8n-workflow'; export class ReadBinaryFile implements INodeType { description: INodeTypeDescription = { displayName: 'Read Binary File', name: 'readBinaryFile', icon: 'fa:file-import', group: ['input'], version: 1, hidden: true, 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; let item: INodeExecutionData; for (let itemIndex = 0; itemIndex < length; itemIndex++) { try { item = items[itemIndex]; const newItem: INodeExecutionData = { json: item.json, binary: {}, pairedItem: { item: itemIndex, }, }; if (item.binary !== undefined && newItem.binary) { // 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); } const filePath = this.getNodeParameter('filePath', itemIndex); const stream = await this.helpers.createReadStream(filePath); const dataPropertyName = this.getNodeParameter('dataPropertyName', itemIndex); newItem.binary![dataPropertyName] = await this.helpers.prepareBinaryData(stream, filePath); returnData.push(newItem); } catch (error) { if (this.continueOnFail()) { returnData.push({ json: { error: (error as Error).message, }, pairedItem: { item: itemIndex, }, }); continue; } throw error; } } return [returnData]; } }