var spawn = require('child_process').spawn;
app.get('/scripts/archive', function(req, res) {
// Options -r recursive -j ignore directory info - redirect to stdout
var zip = spawn('zip', ['-rj', '-', SCRIPTS_PATH]);
res.contentType('zip');
// Keep writing stdout to res
zip.stdout.on('data', function (data) {
res.write(data);
});
zip.stderr.on('data', function (data) {
// Uncomment to see the files being added
//console.log('zip stderr: ' + data);
});
// End the response on zip exit
zip.on('exit', function (code) {
if(code !== 0) {
res.statusCode = 500;
console.log('zip process exited with code ' + code);
res.end();
} else {
res.end();
}
});
});