mdict

mdict (*.mdd *.mdx) file reader based on https://github.com/jeka-kiselyov/mdict, improvement imcludes :

1. Node.js / browser support
2. HTML5 FILE API (or ajax) / fs stream support
3. fix require import path bug
4. flexible promise api

VERY THANKS TO fengdh and jeka-kiselyov

usage

npm install js-mdict

in browser:

// firstly the mdd/mdx file should be load as a Blob instance // you can use this code to load the file

/**
 * loadblob load blob object from chrome file system by XMLHttpRequest
 * @param url the url which need to load
 * @return A Promise instance will be returned, the `resolve`'s param is A `Blob` instance
 * example:
 *  var loadblob = require("./utils/loadblob.js");
 *  loadblob("text.txt").then(function(file){
 *    if (file instanceof Blob){
 *       console.log(true);
 *    }
 *  });
 *
 *  this will output `true`
 */
module.exports = function(url){
    return new Promise(function(resolve,reject){
        var xhr = new XMLHttpRequest();
        xhr.open("GET", url);
        xhr.responseType = "blob";//force the HTTP response, response-type header to be blob

        xhr.onload = function()
        {
            resolve(xhr.response) //xhr.response is now a blob object
        }

        xhr.onerror = function(err){
          console.log(err);
          console.log(url);
          reject(err);
        }
        xhr.send();
    });
}

then you can use mdict in browser:

function Medict(dict_path){
  this.dictionary = loadblob(dict_path).then(
    function(file){
      console.log(file);
      return mdict(file)
    });

  this.search = function(word){
    return this.dictionary.then(function(dict){
      return dict.search(word).then(function(foundWords){
          var w = '' + foundWords[0];
          return dict.lookup(w); /// typeof w === string
      });
    });
  }
}


// use medict object as:

var medict = new Medict(getceurl(__dirname,"../../dict/yourdict.mdx"));

medict.search("yourword").then(function(definition){
	console.log(definition + "");
});

in node:

var mdict = require("./index.js");

(function(){
    mdict("./testdict/ETDict.mdx").search("hello").then(function(defination){
           console.log(defination);
    });
})();