strings not supported as input to `client.seed` in node

[bengl]

This might actually be related to #183, but it's a different error, so I think it warrants a separate issue.

From my quick testing, it seems that the string inputs don't work on client.seed.

Example:

// basicTorrent.js
var WebTorrent = require('webtorrent');

var client = new WebTorrent();

// seed a new torrent of this file
client.seed(__filename, function (torrent) {
    console.log(torrent);
});

The result is this:

~/testing $ node basicTorrent.js 

/home/bengl/testing/node_modules/webtorrent/index.js:207
  var streams = input.map(function (item) {
                      ^
TypeError: Object /home/bengl/testing/basicTorrent.js has no method 'map'
    at WebTorrent.seed (/home/bengl/testing/node_modules/webtorrent/index.js:207:23)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/bengl/testing/basicTorrent.js:5:8)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16)
    at node.js:906:3

So it looks like it expects an array. No prob, wrapped __filename up in an array before passing it into client.seed. The result:

~/testing $ node basicTorrent.js 

/home/bengl/testing/node_modules/webtorrent/index.js:213
    } else throw new Error('unsupported input type to `seed`')
                 ^
Error: unsupported input type to `seed`
    at /home/bengl/testing/node_modules/webtorrent/index.js:213:18
    at Array.map (native)
    at WebTorrent.seed (/home/bengl/testing/node_modules/webtorrent/index.js:207:23)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/home/bengl/testing/basicTorrent.js:5:8)
    at Module._compile (module.js:456:26)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:474:10)
    at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
    at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
    at Function.Module.runMain (module.js:497:10)
    at startup (node.js:119:16

It really looks like file or path strings aren't actually supported. I also tried on __dirname with similar results. Also with arbitrary files and paths.

Here's the version info:

~/testing/node_modules/webtorrent $ npm version
{ http_parser: '1.0',
  node: '0.10.33',
  v8: '3.14.5.9',
  ares: '1.9.0-DEV',
  uv: '0.10.29',
  zlib: '1.2.3',
  modules: '11',
  openssl: '1.0.1j',
  npm: '2.1.9',
  webtorrent: '0.14.0' }

[ghost]

Correct, it doesn't seem to be implemented as of yet. See here: https://github.com/feross/webtorrent/blob/master/index.js#L199

[feross]

No, filenames should be supported. This is a regression.

[feross]

Scratch that. Filenames are supported for create-torrent but not in webrtorrent yet. Sorry about that. Will add asap. PR also welcome!

[feross]

This is a first pass at supporting seeding files (specified as string file paths) for client.seed: #209

Still need a separate PR to support seeding folders.

[feross]

I just changed create-torrent to expose it's input parsing logic since the code is basically exactly the same as client.seed and then we'll get folders for free. See: webtorrent/create-torrent@e370deb

[feross]

This was fixed and released as 0.17.0 a few days ago.