0.5.5 added yaml file load of options

.eslintrc.js

@@ -1,36 +0,0 @@
-module.exports = {
-  "ecmaFeatures": {
-    "modules": true,
-    "spread" : true,
-    "restParams" : true
-  },
-  "env": {
-    "es6": true,
-    "node": true,
-    "mocha": true
-  },
-  "parserOptions": {
-    "ecmaVersion": 2017,
-    "sourceType": "module",
-    "ecmaFeatures": {
-    "experimentalObjectRestSpread": true
-    }
-  },
-  "extends": "eslint:recommended",
-  "rules": {
-    "indent": [
-      "error",
-      2
-    ],
-    "no-console": 0,
-    "semi": ["error", "never"],
-    "linebreak-style": [
-      "error",
-      "unix"
-    ],
-    "quotes": [
-      "error",
-      "single"
-    ]
-  }
-}

.npmignore

@@ -7,3 +7,5 @@ examples/
 .eslintrc.js
 .travis.yml
 .yalc
+doc/
+docs/

package.json

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 {
   "name": "@uci/base",
-  "version": "0.5.4",
+  "version": "0.5.5",
   "description": "Multi type and transport JSON packet communication base class.  Used in UCI extended classes",
   "main": "src/base",
   "scripts": {
@@ -51,6 +51,7 @@
     "@uci/websocket": "^0.4.1",
     "await-to-js": "^2.1.1",
     "is-plain-object": "^4.1.1",
+    "load-yaml-file": "^0.2.0",
     "merge-anything": "^3.0.5"
   }
 }

src/base.js

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+/**
+ * UCI Base Module
+ * @module UCI-Base
+ * @description This is the primary module to use in the UCI ecosystem
+ */
+
 // TODO add automated duplex (for consumer will create corresponding socket and send connection info to remote socket)
 
 // --------------- UCI dependencies -------------------
@@ -18,6 +24,7 @@ let log = {} // declare module wide log to be set during construction
 // Community dependencies
 import to from 'await-to-js'
 import isPlainObject from 'is-plain-object'
+import  loadYaml  from 'load-yaml-file'
 import { merge } from 'merge-anything'
 // Nodejs dependencies
 import EventEmitter from 'events'
@@ -44,12 +51,12 @@ const TRANSLATE = {
  *  The class itself is extended from the {@link https://nodejs.org/api/events.html#events_class_eventemitter nodejs EventEmitter } to support in process communication as well
  *
  * @extends EventEmitter
- * @param {Object} opts hash of options
- * @param {String} [opts.id='ucit-base'+timestamp]  and id for this process/instance used for logging, default: uci-base + timestamp
- * @param {String} [opts.desc] additional description for humans, can be logged.
+ * @param options {object} - object hash of options
+ * @param [options.id=ucit-base+<timestamp>] {string}  and id for this process/instance used for logging
+ * @param {String} [options.desc] additional description for humans, can be logged.
  * @param {String | Boolean} [opts.path=either full path to where socket should be created or 'true' (which uses default path]
  * @param {string} [opts.sockets] comma delimited strong of sockets to be created each socket of the form [name]#[c or s]>[n,t,m or w]
- * @param {Boolean} [opts.useRootNS=false] include the "root" of the created base instance as part of the namespace for which packet cmd's try to call corresponding function
+ * @param [opts.useRootNS=false] {boolean} - include the "root" of the created base instance as part of the namespace for a packet cmd - use not recommended
  * @param {Object} [opts.(name of socket)] options for a particular socket created by opts.socket. see UCI guide {@link ?content=guide#sockets|creating sockets}
  * @property {array} socket collection of all sockets created and used by base instance as per opts.sockets or addSocket method
  *
@@ -61,7 +68,8 @@ const TRANSLATE = {
  *  let mybaseprocess = new Base(opts)
  */
 class Base extends EventEmitter {
-  constructor(opts = {}) {
+  constructor(opts={}) {
+    if (typeof opts === 'string') opts=loadYaml.sync(opts)
     super()
     this.name = opts.name || opts.appName || 'a base class instance'
     this.id = opts.id || 'uci-base:' + new Date().getTime()
@@ -69,6 +77,7 @@ class Base extends EventEmitter {
     this.desc = opts.desc // additional details for humans
     this._socket = {} // holds all the various communication sockets
     // these two if passed will get applied to all consumer sockets, otherwise socket defaults will be used
+    /** @type {string} - timeout for connecting to a consumer socket */
     this.initTimeout = opts.initTimeout
     this.retryWait = opts.retryWait
     this.defaultReturnCmd = opts.defaultReturnCmd
@@ -111,14 +120,14 @@ class Base extends EventEmitter {
   // PUBLIC METHODS
 
   /**
-   * initialize the instance with the set options.  This must be called to initialize all sockets and connections
+   * initialize the instance with the set options.
+   * This must be called to initialize all sockets and connections
    * @async
    * @public
    * @required
    *  @param {array} sockets string of one or array array names to initialize, if none, then all current added sockets will be initialized
    *
    */
-
   async init(sockets) {
     // TODO ready needs to allow multiple all subscribers that get rebuilt on add/remove
     const res = await this.socketsInit(sockets)
@@ -723,4 +732,4 @@ class Base extends EventEmitter {
 } // end Base Class
 
 export default Base
-export { Base, map, changed, isPlainObject, to, merge }  // todo share rxjs
+export { Base, map, changed, isPlainObject, to, merge, loadYaml }  // todo share rxjs