Filesharing Service Walk Task

task api name: walk

The walk task recursively lists all files from all subdirectories under the specified URL path. This is useful when you need to discover all files available in a directory tree, returning a list of complete nf://... URLs for each file found. The task skips hidden files (starting with .) and special directories (containing __).

Using it from Python

from norfab.core.nfapi import NorFab

with NorFab(inventory="./inventory.yaml") as nf:
    client = nf.make_client()

    reply = client.run_job(
        service="filesharing",
        task="walk",
        workers="any",
        kwargs={"url": "nf://"},
    )
    print(reply)

Using it from nfcli

NORFAB CLI exposes File Sharing under the file command group.

nf#man tree file
root
└── file:    File sharing service
    └── walk:    Walk directory tree recursively

nf#

API Reference

Recursively list all files from all subdirectories.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description	Default
url	str	URL path starting with 'nf://' to walk directories	required

Returns:

Type	Description
Result	Result containing list of all file paths or error message

Source code in norfab\workers\filesharing_worker\filesharing_worker.py

@Task(fastapi={"methods": ["GET"]})
def walk(self, url: str) -> Result:
    """
    Recursively list all files from all subdirectories.

    Args:
        url: URL path starting with 'nf://' to walk directories

    Returns:
        Result containing list of all file paths or error message
    """
    ret = Result(result=None)
    try:
        full_path = self._safe_path(url)
    except ValueError as e:
        ret.failed = True
        ret.errors = [str(e)]
        return ret

    if os.path.exists(full_path) and os.path.isdir(full_path):
        files_list = []
        for root, dirs, files in os.walk(full_path):
            # skip path containing folders like __folders__
            if root.count("__") >= 2:
                continue
            root = root.replace(self.base_dir, "")
            root = root.lstrip("\\")
            root = root.replace("\\", "/")
            for file in files:
                # skip hidden/system files
                if file.startswith("."):
                    continue
                if root:
                    files_list.append(f"nf://{root}/{file}")
                else:
                    files_list.append(f"nf://{file}")
        ret.result = files_list
    else:
        ret.failed = True
        ret.errors = ["Directory Not Found"]
    return ret