question-store

Ask questions, persist the answers. Basic support for i18n and storing answers based on current working directory.

TOC

• Install
• Usage
• API
  • Questions
  • Question
• Related projects
• Contributing
• Building docs
• Running tests
• Author
• License

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Install

Install with npm:

$ npm install question-store --save

Similar to question-cache, but persists answers to disk and supports locales and storing answers based on current working directory.

Usage

var Questions = require('question-store');

API

Questions

Create an instance of Questions with the given options.

Params

• options {Object}: question store options

Example

var Questions = new Questions(options);

.set

Cache a question to be asked at a later point. Creates an instance of Question, so any Question options or settings may be used.

Params

• value {Object|String}: Question object, message (string), or options object.
• locale {String}: Optionally pass the locale to use, otherwise the default locale is used.

Example

questions.set('drink', 'What is your favorite beverage?');
// or
questions.set('drink', {
  type: 'input',
  message: 'What is your favorite beverage?'
});
// or
questions.set({
  name: 'drink'
  type: 'input',
  message: 'What is your favorite beverage?'
});

.get

Get question name, or group name if question is not found. You can also do a direct lookup using quesions.cache['foo'].

Params

• name {String}
• returns {Object}: Returns the question object.

Example

var name = questions.get('name');
//=> question object

.has

Returns true if questions.cache or questions.groups has question name.

• returns {String}: The name of the question to check

Example

var name = questions.has('name');
//=> true

.del

Delete the given question or any questions that have the given namespace using dot-notation.

• returns {String}: The name of the question to delete

Example

questions.del('name');
questions.get('name');
//=> undefined

// using dot-notation
questions.del('author');
questions.get('author.name');
//=> undefined

.clearAnswers

Clear all cached answers.

Example

questions.clearAnswers();

.clearQuestions

Clear all questions from the cache.

Example

questions.clearQuestions();

.clear

Clear all cached questions and answers.

Example

questions.clear();

.ask

Ask one or more questions, with the given options and callback.

Params

• queue {String|Array}: Name or array of question names.
• options {Object|Function}: Question options or callback function
• callback {Function}: callback function

Example

questions.ask(['name', 'description'], function(err, answers) {
  console.log(answers);
});

.normalize

Normalize the given value to return an array of question keys.

Params

• {[type]}: key
• returns {[type]}

Question

Create new Question store name, with the given options.

Params

• name {String}: The question property name.
• options {Object}: Store options

Example

var question = new Question(name, options);

.answer

Resolve the answer for the question from the given data sources, then set the question's default value with any stored hints or answers if not already defined.

Params

• answers {Object}
• data {Object}
• store {Object}
• hints {Object}
• returns {Object}

Example

question.answer(answers, data, store, hints);

.force

Force the question to be asked.

• returns {undefined}

Example

question.force();

Related projects

• answer-store: Store answers to user prompts, based on locale and/or current working directory. | homepage
• inquirer: A collection of common interactive command line user interfaces. | homepage
• question-cache: A wrapper around inquirer that makes it easy to create and selectively reuse questions. | homepage

Contributing

Pull requests and stars are always welcome. For bugs and feature requests, please create an issue.

Building docs

Generate readme and API documentation with verb:

$ npm install verb && npm run docs

Or, if verb is installed globally:

$ verb

Running tests

Install dev dependencies:

$ npm install -d && npm test

Author

Jon Schlinkert

• github/jonschlinkert
• twitter/jonschlinkert

License

Copyright © 2016 Jon Schlinkert Released under the MIT license.

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