listener-rss/src/listener-rss.ts

import Parser from "rss-parser";
import { ListenerRSSInfos as ListenerInfo } from "./Models/ListenerRSSInfos";
import EventEmitter from "events";

const DEFAULT_TIMELOOP: number = 5 * 60; // default timeloop is 5 min

/**
 * Emit 'update' when he's making a fetch during the start fun
 * Emit 'update_err' when the fetch has an issue
 */
export class ListenerRss extends EventEmitter {
  name: string = "";
  address: string = "";
  timeloop: number = DEFAULT_TIMELOOP; // time in seconds
  customfields?: { [key: string]: string[] | string };

  // private fields
  parser: Parser;
  loopRunning: boolean = false;

  /**
   * @brief constructor
   * @param config ListenerRSSInfos interface who's contain the ListenerInfos
   */
  constructor(config: ListenerInfo) {
    super();

    this.name = config.name;
    this.address = config.address;
    this.timeloop =
      config.timeloop === undefined ? DEFAULT_TIMELOOP : config.timeloop;
    this.customfields = config.customfields;

    this.parser = this.generateParser();
  }

  /**
   * @brief Private function. Is useed to initilize the parser object with the customfields var
   */
  generateParser() {
    const parserConfig = this.customfields && {
      customFields: {
        feed: [],
        item: Object.entries(this.customfields).map(([, value]) => {
          return Array.isArray(value) ? value[0] : value;
        }),
      },
    };
    return new Parser(parserConfig);
  }

  /**
   * @brief use the parseURL function from rss-parser with the objects datas
   * @return return a promise with the received data
   */
  fetchRSS(): Promise<Parser.Output<any>> {
    return this.parser.parseURL(this.address).catch((err) => {
      throw new Error("bad address or no access : " + err);
    });
  }

  /**
   * @brief call the callback function each looptime
   * @param callback function who's going to be called with the latest get
   */
  start(): void {
    this.loopRunning = true;

    const fun: () => void = () => {
      this.fetchRSS()
        .then((obj: { [key: string]: any }) => this.emit("update", obj))
        .catch((err) => this.emit("update_err", err));
    };

    (async () => {
      while (this.loopRunning) {
        await fun();
        await new Promise((res) => setTimeout(res, this.timeloop * 1000));
      }
    })();
  }

  /**
   * @brief stop the async function
   */
  stop(): void {
    this.loopRunning = false;
  }
}