From a493b54d029c6d9ec707374fa9bb15976d17b74c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marak Squires <marak.squires@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2012 04:05:37 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] [api] Added recursive `readdir` method. #28

---
 dbox.js | 48 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 48 insertions(+)

diff --git a/dbox.js b/dbox.js
index e97f099..e3fa3b0 100644
--- a/dbox.js
+++ b/dbox.js
@@ -157,6 +157,54 @@ exports.app = function(config){
           })
         },
 
+        //
+        // Recursively loads a dropbox folder
+        //
+        readdir: function (path, callback) {
+          var results = [],
+          REQUEST_CONCURRENCY_DELAY = 200,
+          callbacks = 0
+          self = this;
+          //
+          // Remark: REQUEST_CONCURRENCY_DELAY represents the millisecond,
+          // delay between outgoing requests to dropbox
+          //
+          function load (path) {
+            callbacks++;
+            //
+            // Give the dropbox API a delay between requests,
+            // by wrapping each depth level in a setTimeout delay
+            //
+            setTimeout(function(){
+              self.client.metadata(path, function (status, reply) {
+                //
+                // If we have found any contents on this level of the folder
+                //
+                if (reply.contents) {
+                  reply.contents.forEach(function (item) {
+                    //
+                    // Add the item into our results array
+                    //
+                    results.push(item.path);
+                    //
+                    // If we have encountered another folder, we are going to recurse on it
+                    //
+                    if (item.is_dir) {
+                      load(item.path);
+                    }
+                  });
+                }
+                callbacks--;
+                if (callbacks === 0) {
+                  callback(status, results);
+                }
+              });
+            }, REQUEST_CONCURRENCY_DELAY)
+          }
+          console.log('warn: recursively loading data from dropbox...this may take some time');
+          load(path, results);
+        },
+
         revisions: function(path, args, cb){
           if(cb == null){
             cb = args