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socket-port-helpers

A javascript helpers for socket.

Features

Test one or multiple port/s
Look for one or multiple free port/s
port range parser

Installation

npm install socket-port-helpers

Dependencies

Samples

Find the first free port available (test data transfer)

const socketPortHelper = require('socket-port-helpers');

socketPortHelper.findFirstFreePort({ testDataTransfer: true, log: false })
    .then((port) => {
    console.log(`first free port ${port}`);
    })
    .catch((err) => {
    });
});

Find 20 free ports in the range [7000-8000]. 5 Ports are tested in parallel.

const socketPortHelper = require('socket-port-helpers');

socketPortHelper.findFreePortRange(20, { portRange:'7000-8000', log: false, rangeSlice: 5 })
.then((ports) => {
    for (let i = 0, l = ports.length ; i < l; ++i) {
        console.log(`${i} - find free port ${ports[i]}`);
    }
 })
 .catch((err) => {
 });

Test a port

interface TestPortResult {
    port: number;
    err?: Error;        // If the port is not reachable on time, this member contains the error
    errMsg?: string;
}

interface TestPortOptions {
    hostname?: string;
    log?: boolean;
    testConnection?: boolean;       // Connect a socket
    testDataTransfer?: boolean;     // Send data to socket
    timeoutDelay?: number;          // Delay before stopping the test (default is 500ms)
}

function testPort(port: number, options?: TestPortOptions): Promise<TestPortResult>;

Test multiple ports

interface TestPortRangeOptions extends TestPortOptions {
    rangeSlice?: number;            // test [n] ports in parallel (default is 5)
}

testPortRange(portRange: string, options?: TestPortRangeOptions): Promise<TestRangeResult[];

Inspired from the package portman, the portRange argument supports following syntax :

single port
'8080'
ports
'80 443 8080 8443'
port prefixed with comparator
'!=8080'
'>=8000'
...
hyphenated ports
'7000 - 8000'
combination of previous
'8080 8443 >=9000'
'<4000 || >=6000'

default range is [49152 - 65534]

Find a free port

interface FindFirstFreePortOptions extends TestPortOptions {
    portRange?: string;
}

function findFirstFreePort(options?: FindFirstFreePortOptions): Promise<number>;

Returns null if failed to find a free port else the free port number.

Find multiple free ports

interface FindFreePortRangeOptions extends FindFreePortOptions {
}

function findFreePortRange(count: number, options?: FindFreePortRangeOptions): Promise<number[]>;

The returned array length is shorter than count, if we can not find the expected number of free ports.

MIT License

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