realize-package-specifier ------------------------- Parse a package specifier, peeking at the disk to differentiate between local tarballs, directories and named modules. This implements the logic used by `npm install` and `npm cache` to determine where to get packages from. ```javascript var realizePackageSpecifier = require("realize-package-specifier") realizePackageSpecifier("foo.tar.gz", ".", function (err, package) { … }) ``` ## Using * realizePackageSpecifier(*spec*, [*where*,] *callback*) Parses *spec* using `npm-package-arg` and then uses stat to check to see if it refers to a local tarball or package directory. Stats are done relative to *where*. If it does then the local module is loaded. If it doesn't then target is left as a remote package specifier. Package directories are recognized by the presence of a package.json in them. *spec* -- a package specifier, like: `foo@1.2`, or `foo@user/foo`, or `http://x.com/foo.tgz`, or `git+https://github.com/user/foo` *where* (optional, default: .) -- The directory in which we should look for local tarballs or package directories. *callback* function(*err*, *result*) -- Called once we've determined what kind of specifier this is. The *result* object will be very like the one returned by `npm-package-arg` except with three differences: 1) There's a new type of `directory`. 2) The `local` type only refers to tarballs. 2) For all `local` and `directory` type results spec will contain the full path of the local package. ## Result Object The full definition of the result object is: * `name` - If known, the `name` field expected in the resulting pkg. * `type` - One of the following strings: * `git` - A git repo * `hosted` - A hosted project, from github, bitbucket or gitlab. Originally either a full url pointing at one of these services or a shorthand like `user/project` or `github:user/project` for github or `bitbucket:user/project` for bitbucket. * `tag` - A tagged version, like `"foo@latest"` * `version` - A specific version number, like `"foo@1.2.3"` * `range` - A version range, like `"foo@2.x"` * `local` - A local file path * `directory` - A local package directory * `remote` - An http url (presumably to a tgz) * `spec` - The "thing". URL, the range, git repo, etc. * `hosted` - If type=hosted this will be an object with the following keys: * `type` - github, bitbucket or gitlab * `ssh` - The ssh path for this git repo * `sshurl` - The ssh URL for this git repo * `https` - The HTTPS URL for this git repo * `directUrl` - The URL for the package.json in this git repo * `raw` - The original un-modified string that was provided. * `rawSpec` - The part after the `name@...`, as it was originally provided. * `scope` - If a name is something like `@org/module` then the `scope` field will be set to `org`. If it doesn't have a scoped name, then scope is `null`.