Add Tail node as separate node package - adds windows support

storage/tail/28-tail.html

@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+
+<script type="text/x-red" data-template-name="tail">
+    <div class="form-row">
+         <label for="node-input-filename"><i class="fa fa-file"></i> <span data-i18n="tail.label.filename"></span></label>
+         <input id="node-input-filename" type="text">
+    </div>
+    <div class="form-row">
+        <label for="node-input-filetype"><i class="fa fa-file-text-o"></i> <span data-i18n="tail.label.type"></span></label>
+        <select type="text" id="node-input-filetype">
+            <option value="text" data-i18n="tail.action.text"></option>
+            <option value="binary" data-i18n="tail.action.binary"></option>
+        </select>
+    </div>
+    <div class="form-row" id="node-tail-split">
+        <!-- <label>&nbsp;</label>
+        <input type="checkbox" id="node-input-split" placeholder="Name" style="display: inline-block; width: auto; vertical-align: top;">
+        <label for="node-input-split" style="width: 70%;"><span data-i18n="tail.label.splitlines"></span></label> -->
+        <label for="node-input-split"><i class="fa fa-tag"></i> <span data-i18n="tail.label.splitlines"></span></label>
+        <input type="text" id="node-input-split" data-i18n="[placeholder]tail.label.regex">
+    </div>
+    <div class="form-row">
+        <label for="node-input-name"><i class="fa fa-tag"></i> <span data-i18n="tail.label.name"></span></label>
+        <input type="text" id="node-input-name" data-i18n="[placeholder]tail.label.name">
+    </div>
+</script>
+
+<script type="text/x-red" data-help-name="tail">
+    <p>Tails (watches for things to be added) to the configured file. (Linux/Mac ONLY)</p>
+    <p>This will not work on Windows filesystems, as it relies on the <b>tail -F</b> command.</p>
+    <h3>Outputs</h3>
+    <ul>
+        <li>Text (UTF-8) files will be returned as strings.</li>
+        <li>Binary files will be returned as Buffer objects.</li>
+    </ul>
+</script>
+
+<script type="text/javascript">
+    RED.nodes.registerType('tail',{
+        category: 'storage-input',
+        defaults: {
+            name: {value:""},
+            filetype: {value:"text"},
+            split: {value:"[\r]{0,1}\n"},
+            filename: {value:"",required:true}
+        },
+        color:"BurlyWood",
+        inputs:0,
+        outputs:1,
+        icon: "file.png",
+        label: function() {
+            return this.name||this.filename||this._("tail.tail");
+        },
+        labelStyle: function() {
+            return this.name?"node_label_italic":"";
+        },
+        oneditprepare: function() {
+            $("#node-input-filetype").on("change",function() {
+                if (this.value === "text") { $("#node-tail-split").show(); }
+                else { $("#node-tail-split").hide(); }
+            });
+        }
+    });
+</script>

storage/tail/28-tail.js

@@ -0,0 +1,60 @@
+
+module.exports = function(RED) {
+    "use strict";
+    var fs = require('fs');
+    var Tail = require('tail').Tail;
+
+    function TailNode(n) {
+        RED.nodes.createNode(this,n);
+
+        this.filename = n.filename;
+        this.filetype = n.filetype || "text";
+        this.split = new RegExp(n.split || "[\r]{0,1}\n");
+        var node = this;
+
+        var fileTail = function() {
+            if (fs.existsSync(node.filename)) {
+                if (node.filetype === "text") {
+                    node.tail = new Tail(node.filename,{separator:node.split, flushAtEOF:true});
+                }
+                else {
+                    node.tail = new Tail(node.filename,{separator:null, flushAtEOF:true, encoding:"binary"});
+                }
+
+                node.tail.on("line", function(data) {
+                    if (data.length > 0) {
+                        var msg = { topic:node.filename };
+                        if (node.filetype === "text") {
+                            msg.payload = data.toString();
+                            node.send(msg);
+                        }
+                        else {
+                            msg.payload = Buffer.from(data,"binary");
+                            //msg.payload = data;
+                            node.send(msg);
+                        }
+                    }
+                });
+
+                node.tail.on("error", function(err) {
+                    node.error(err.toString());
+                });
+            }
+            else {
+                node.tout = setTimeout(function() { fileTail(); },10000);
+                node.warn(RED._("tail.errors.filenotfound") + node.filename);
+            }
+        }
+
+        fileTail();
+
+        node.on("close", function() {
+            /* istanbul ignore else */
+            if (node.tail) { node.tail.unwatch(); }
+            delete node.tail;
+            if (node.tout) { clearTimeout(node.tout); }
+        });
+    }
+
+    RED.nodes.registerType("tail",TailNode);
+}

storage/tail/LICENSE

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+Copyright 2016 JS Foundation and other contributors, https://js.foundation/
+Copyright 2013-2016 IBM Corp.
+
+Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+limitations under the License.

storage/tail/README.md

@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+node-red-node-tail
+==================
+
+A Node-Red node to tail a file and inject the contents into the flow.
+
+Install
+-------
+
+Either use the Menu - Manage palette option, or run the following command in your Node-RED user directory - typically `~/.node-red`
+
+    npm install node-red-node-tail
+
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Allows 

storage/tail/locales/en-US/28-tail.json

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+    "tail": {
+        "tail": "tail",
+        "label": {
+            "filename": "Filename",
+            "type": "File type",
+            "splitlines": "Split on",
+            "name": "Name",
+            "regex": "split character or regex"
+        },
+        "action": {
+            "text": "Text - returns String",
+            "binary": "Binary - returns Buffer"
+        },
+        "errors": {
+            "windowsnotsupport": "Not currently supported on Windows.",
+            "filenotfound": "File not found"
+        }
+    }
+}

storage/tail/package.json

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+{
+    "name": "node-red-node-tail",
+    "version": "0.0.1",
+    "description": "A node to tail files for Node-RED",
+    "dependencies": {
+        "tail": "^2.0.0"
+    },
+    "repository": {
+        "type": "git",
+        "url": "https://github.com/node-red/node-red-nodes/storage/tail/"
+    },
+    "license": "Apache-2.0",
+    "keywords": [
+        "node-red",
+        "tail"
+    ],
+    "node-red": {
+        "nodes": {
+            "tail": "28-tail.js"
+        }
+    },
+    "author": {
+        "name": "Dave Conway-Jones",
+        "email": "ceejay@vnet.ibm.com",
+        "url": "http://nodered.org"
+    }
+}