I need to read all the files and directories of a folder opened with the new File System Access API for the web. I am able to read a directory but don't know how to continue recursively on an elegant way
try {
const directoryHandle = await window.showDirectoryPicker()
const files = []
for await (let [name, handle] of directoryHandle) {
const kind = handle.kind
files.push({
name,
handle,
kind,
})
}
two steps, define one function that should take a directory and return all files and folders recursively as below
async function listAllFilesAndDirs(dirHandle) {
const files = [];
for await (let [name, handle] of dirHandle) {
const {kind} = handle;
if (handle.kind === 'directory') {
files.push({name, handle, kind});
files.push(...await listAllFilesAndDirs(handle));
} else {
files.push({name, handle, kind});
}
}
return files;
}
then invoke this function from your code as below
async function onClickHandler(e) {
try {
const directoryHandle = await window.showDirectoryPicker()
const files = await listAllFilesAndDirs(directoryHandle);
console.log('files', files);
}catch(e) {
console.log(e);
}
}