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atom/src/main-process/spawner.coffee
2016-05-25 11:02:29 +02:00

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CoffeeScript

ChildProcess = require 'child_process'
# Spawn a command and invoke the callback when it completes with an error
# and the output from standard out.
#
# * `command` The underlying OS command {String} to execute.
# * `args` (optional) The {Array} with arguments to be passed to command.
# * `callback` (optional) The {Function} to call after the command has run. It will be invoked with arguments:
# * `error` (optional) An {Error} object returned by the command, `null` if no error was thrown.
# * `code` Error code returned by the command.
# * `stdout` The {String} output text generated by the command.
# * `stdout` The {String} output text generated by the command.
#
# Returns `undefined`.
exports.spawn = (command, args, callback) ->
stdout = ''
try
spawnedProcess = ChildProcess.spawn(command, args)
catch error
# Spawn can throw an error
process.nextTick -> callback?(error, stdout)
return
spawnedProcess.stdout.on 'data', (data) -> stdout += data
error = null
spawnedProcess.on 'error', (processError) -> error ?= processError
spawnedProcess.on 'close', (code, signal) ->
error ?= new Error("Command failed: #{signal ? code}") if code isnt 0
error?.code ?= code
error?.stdout ?= stdout
callback?(error, stdout)
# This is necessary if using Powershell 2 on Windows 7 to get the events to raise
# http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9155289/calling-powershell-from-nodejs
spawnedProcess.stdin.end()