fs: add rm method

This PR introduces a new method fs.rm that provides the behaviour of
rimraf when used with the recursive: true and force: true options.

PR-URL: #35494
Reviewed-By: Ben Coe <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Rich Trott <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Ruy Adorno <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <[email protected]>

Author: iansu

doc/api/errors.md

@@ -1048,6 +1048,11 @@ added: v14.0.0
 Used when a feature that is not available
 to the current platform which is running Node.js is used.
 
+<a id="ERR_FS_EISDIR"></a>
+### `ERR_FS_EISDIR`
+
+Path is a directory.
+
 <a id="ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE"></a>
 ### `ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE`
 

doc/api/fs.md

@@ -3533,9 +3533,9 @@ changes:
 * `options` {Object}
   * `maxRetries` {integer} If an `EBUSY`, `EMFILE`, `ENFILE`, `ENOTEMPTY`, or
     `EPERM` error is encountered, Node.js will retry the operation with a linear
-    backoff wait of `retryDelay` ms longer on each try. This option represents
-    the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive` option is
-    not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
+    backoff wait of `retryDelay` milliseconds longer on each try. This option
+    represents the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive`
+    option is not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
   * `recursive` {boolean} If `true`, perform a recursive directory removal. In
     recursive mode, errors are not reported if `path` does not exist, and
     operations are retried on failure. **Default:** `false`.
@@ -3584,9 +3584,9 @@ changes:
 * `options` {Object}
   * `maxRetries` {integer} If an `EBUSY`, `EMFILE`, `ENFILE`, `ENOTEMPTY`, or
     `EPERM` error is encountered, Node.js will retry the operation with a linear
-    backoff wait of `retryDelay` ms longer on each try. This option represents
-    the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive` option is
-    not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
+    backoff wait of `retryDelay` milliseconds longer on each try. This option
+    represents the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive`
+    option is not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
   * `recursive` {boolean} If `true`, perform a recursive directory removal. In
     recursive mode, errors are not reported if `path` does not exist, and
     operations are retried on failure. **Default:** `false`.
@@ -3605,6 +3605,53 @@ that represent files will be deleted. The permissive behavior of the
 `recursive` option is deprecated, `ENOTDIR` and `ENOENT` will be thrown in
 the future.
 
+## `fs.rm(path[, options], callback)`
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+* `path` {string|Buffer|URL}
+* `options` {Object}
+  * `force` don't error on nonexistent path
+  * `maxRetries` {integer} If an `EBUSY`, `EMFILE`, `ENFILE`, `ENOTEMPTY`, or
+    `EPERM` error is encountered, Node.js will retry the operation with a linear
+    backoff wait of `retryDelay` milliseconds longer on each try. This option
+    represents the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive`
+    option is not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
+  * `recursive` {boolean} If `true`, perform a recursive removal. In
+    recursive mode operations are retried on failure. **Default:** `false`.
+  * `retryDelay` {integer} The amount of time in milliseconds to wait between
+    retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive` option is not `true`.
+    **Default:** `100`.
+* `callback` {Function}
+  * `err` {Error}
+
+Asynchronously removes files and directories (modeled on the standard POSIX `rm`
+utility). No arguments other than a possible exception are given to the
+completion callback.
+
+## `fs.rmSync(path[, options])`
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+* `path` {string|Buffer|URL}
+* `options` {Object}
+  * `force` Ignore errors
+  * `maxRetries` {integer} If an `EBUSY`, `EMFILE`, `ENFILE`, `ENOTEMPTY`, or
+    `EPERM` error is encountered, Node.js will retry the operation with a linear
+    backoff wait of `retryDelay` milliseconds longer on each try. This option
+    represents the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive`
+    option is not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
+  * `recursive` {boolean} If `true`, perform a recursive directory removal. In
+    recursive mode operations are retried on failure. **Default:** `false`.
+  * `retryDelay` {integer} The amount of time in milliseconds to wait between
+    retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive` option is not `true`.
+    **Default:** `100`.
+
+Synchronously removes files and directories (modeled on the standard POSIX `rm`
+utility). Returns `undefined`.
+
 ## `fs.stat(path[, options], callback)`
 <!-- YAML
 added: v0.0.2
@@ -5477,9 +5524,9 @@ changes:
 * `options` {Object}
   * `maxRetries` {integer} If an `EBUSY`, `EMFILE`, `ENFILE`, `ENOTEMPTY`, or
     `EPERM` error is encountered, Node.js will retry the operation with a linear
-    backoff wait of `retryDelay` ms longer on each try. This option represents
-    the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive` option is
-    not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
+    backoff wait of `retryDelay` milliseconds longer on each try. This option
+    represents the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive`
+    option is not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
   * `recursive` {boolean} If `true`, perform a recursive directory removal. In
     recursive mode, errors are not reported if `path` does not exist, and
     operations are retried on failure. **Default:** `false`.
@@ -5501,6 +5548,28 @@ that represent files will be deleted. The permissive behavior of the
 `recursive` option is deprecated, `ENOTDIR` and `ENOENT` will be thrown in
 the future.
 
+## `fsPromises.rm(path[, options])`
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+* `path` {string|Buffer|URL}
+* `options` {Object}
+  * `force` Ignore errors
+  * `maxRetries` {integer} If an `EBUSY`, `EMFILE`, `ENFILE`, `ENOTEMPTY`, or
+    `EPERM` error is encountered, Node.js will retry the operation with a linear
+    backoff wait of `retryDelay` milliseconds longer on each try. This option
+    represents the number of retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive`
+    option is not `true`. **Default:** `0`.
+  * `recursive` {boolean} If `true`, perform a recursive directory removal. In
+    recursive mode operations are retried on failure. **Default:** `false`.
+  * `retryDelay` {integer} The amount of time in milliseconds to wait between
+    retries. This option is ignored if the `recursive` option is not `true`.
+    **Default:** `100`.
+
+Synchronously removes files and directories (modeled on the standard POSIX `rm`
+utility). Resolves the `Promise` with no arguments on success.
+
 ### `fsPromises.stat(path[, options])`
 <!-- YAML
 added: v10.0.0

lib/fs.js

@@ -97,6 +97,8 @@ const {
   validateOffsetLengthRead,
   validateOffsetLengthWrite,
   validatePath,
+  validateRmOptions,
+  validateRmOptionsSync,
   validateRmdirOptions,
   validateStringAfterArrayBufferView,
   warnOnNonPortableTemplate
@@ -855,30 +857,63 @@ function rmdir(path, options, callback) {
 
   callback = makeCallback(callback);
   path = pathModule.toNamespacedPath(getValidatedPath(path));
-  options = validateRmdirOptions(options);
 
-  if (options.recursive) {
-    lazyLoadRimraf();
-    return rimraf(path, options, callback);
-  }
+  if (options && options.recursive) {
+    options = validateRmOptions(
+      path,
+      { ...options, force: true },
+      (err, options) => {
+        if (err) {
+          return callback(err);
+        }
 
-  const req = new FSReqCallback();
-  req.oncomplete = callback;
-  binding.rmdir(path, req);
+        lazyLoadRimraf();
+        return rimraf(path, options, callback);
+      });
+
+  } else {
+    options = validateRmdirOptions(options);
+    const req = new FSReqCallback();
+    req.oncomplete = callback;
+    return binding.rmdir(path, req);
+  }
 }
 
 function rmdirSync(path, options) {
   path = getValidatedPath(path);
-  options = validateRmdirOptions(options);
 
-  if (options.recursive) {
+  if (options && options.recursive) {
+    options = validateRmOptionsSync(path, { ...options, force: true });
     lazyLoadRimraf();
     return rimrafSync(pathModule.toNamespacedPath(path), options);
   }
 
+  options = validateRmdirOptions(options);
   const ctx = { path };
   binding.rmdir(pathModule.toNamespacedPath(path), undefined, ctx);
-  handleErrorFromBinding(ctx);
+  return handleErrorFromBinding(ctx);
+}
+
+function rm(path, options, callback) {
+  if (typeof options === 'function') {
+    callback = options;
+    options = undefined;
+  }
+
+  validateRmOptions(path, options, (err, options) => {
+    if (err) {
+      return callback(err);
+    }
+    lazyLoadRimraf();
+    return rimraf(pathModule.toNamespacedPath(path), options, callback);
+  });
+}
+
+function rmSync(path, options) {
+  options = validateRmOptionsSync(path, options);
+
+  lazyLoadRimraf();
+  return rimrafSync(pathModule.toNamespacedPath(path), options);
 }
 
 function fdatasync(fd, callback) {
@@ -2040,6 +2075,8 @@ module.exports = fs = {
   realpathSync,
   rename,
   renameSync,
+  rm,
+  rmSync,
   rmdir,
   rmdirSync,
   stat,

lib/internal/errors.js

@@ -843,6 +843,7 @@ E('ERR_FEATURE_UNAVAILABLE_ON_PLATFORM',
   'The feature %s is unavailable on the current platform' +
   ', which is being used to run Node.js',
   TypeError);
+E('ERR_FS_EISDIR', 'Path is a directory', SystemError);
 E('ERR_FS_FILE_TOO_LARGE', 'File size (%s) is greater than 2 GB', RangeError);
 E('ERR_FS_INVALID_SYMLINK_TYPE',
   'Symlink type must be one of "dir", "file", or "junction". Received "%s"',

lib/internal/fs/promises.js

@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ const {
   validateBufferArray,
   validateOffsetLengthRead,
   validateOffsetLengthWrite,
+  validateRmOptions,
   validateRmdirOptions,
   validateStringAfterArrayBufferView,
   warnOnNonPortableTemplate
@@ -79,6 +80,7 @@ const {
 } = require('internal/worker/js_transferable');
 
 const getDirectoryEntriesPromise = promisify(getDirents);
+const validateRmOptionsPromise = promisify(validateRmOptions);
 
 class FileHandle extends JSTransferable {
   constructor(filehandle) {
@@ -417,6 +419,12 @@ async function ftruncate(handle, len = 0) {
   return binding.ftruncate(handle.fd, len, kUsePromises);
 }
 
+async function rm(path, options) {
+  path = pathModule.toNamespacedPath(getValidatedPath(path));
+  options = await validateRmOptionsPromise(path, options);
+  return rimrafPromises(path, options);
+}
+
 async function rmdir(path, options) {
   path = pathModule.toNamespacedPath(getValidatedPath(path));
   options = validateRmdirOptions(options);
@@ -635,6 +643,7 @@ module.exports = {
     opendir: promisify(opendir),
     rename,
     truncate,
+    rm,
     rmdir,
     mkdir,
     readdir,