node-minecraft-server-admin

This module aims to encapsulate the management of a minecraft server, including spinning up game instances, running backup/restore operations, getting/setting server.properties, white-list.txt, banned-*.txt, etc data, and more as time goes on.

npm install minecraft-server-admin

The export is a single constructor function:

var Server = require("minecraft-server-admin");

High-Level Overview

This module is very opinionated, and creates it's directory structure in a very particular way to encapsulate all server information into a single directory. (which is the dir supplied as the only argument to the Constructor function)

• backups/ - All server backups will reside here
• server/ - The minecraft server base dir will reside here (largely controlled by the minecraft server itself)
  • world/ - Usually, this is the server's world data (can be configured via server.properties)
  • minecraft_server.jar - This is a symbolic link pointing to a minecraft_server.jar somewhere else on disk.
  • banned-ips.txt - Banned IP addresses
  • banned-players.txt - Banned player usernames
  • white-list.txt - Server whitelist (must be enabled in server.properties)
  • opts.txt - Server operator list
  • server.properties - See the Minecraft Wiki
  • server.log - Server console/log output
• config.json - This contains configuration details for the server that exist outside the server.properties and friends. (such as the java command, allowed RAM, etc)

API Documentation

Server(dir)

The constructor requires a base directory as it's only parameter, this will be the root directory for all the server's data/configuration/etc.

Arguments

• dir - The path to the server's location on disk

Server#dir

The absolute path location for this server, set by the Constructor (see above)

Server#log

An instance of file-class.File (see file-class) pointing to server/server.log.

Server#config

An instance of file-class.JSONFile (see file-class) pointing to config.json.

Server#properties

An instance of file-class.File (see file-class) (using parse/stringify methods from node-minecraft-server-properties) pointing to server/server.properties

Server#whitelist

An instance of file-class.ListFile (see file-class) pointing to server/white-list.txt.

Server#operators

An instance of file-class.ListFile (see file-class) pointing to server/ops.txt.

Server#banned.ips

An instance of file-class.ListFile (see file-class) pointing to server/banned-ips.txt.

Server#banned.players

An instance of file-class.ListFile (see file-class) pointing to server/banned-players.txt.

Server#backups

An instance of dir-backup (see node-dir-backup) that sets up a backup system with the server/ dir as the source, and backups/ as the target.

Server#game

This property is only set after a game has been started and begins to run successfully, it is an instance of the node-minecraft-runner object, and exposes that entire API via this property. (this includes execute server commands on the console, allows for listening to events that the server emits, etc)

Server#status

This is a String property that returns the current status of the running game, or "Stopped" if no game is running.

Server#jar

This is the filesystem location of the server's jar file, not following the symbolic link. (ie: server/minecraft_server.jar)

Server#file(location)

This function returns the absolute path to a file within the server's directory.

Arguments

• location - The relative location of the file

Returns String

Server#create(options, callback)

This creates the entire directory structure for a server, additional data passed via arguments will be passed off to various other methods to creating configuration files (such as server.properties)

Arguments

• options - Hash of data for server defaults
  • config - config.json data (ie: java, ram)
  • properties - server/server.properties data
  • whitelist - server/white-list.txt data
  • ops - server/ops.txt data
  • bannedPlayers - server/banned-players.txt data
  • bannedIps - server/banned-ips.txt data
  • jar - server/minecraft_server.jar source location
• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)

var options = {
    properties: {
        // ... any excluded properties will likely be given defaults by the server
        "white-list": true
    },
    ops: [ "the-op" ]
};
 
server.create(options, function (err) {
    // err => null or Error()
});

Server#del(callback)

This will destroy the entire directory structure for the server, if a game is currently running, it will stop that instance first.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err Error object (if relevent)

Server#exists(callback)

This will check for the existence of the server specified by this object.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • exists - Boolean indicating the existence of the server's root dir

Server#banned(callback)

This method is short-hand for reading both banned-ips.txt and banned-players.txt.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)
  • banned - Object of banned players/ips

Server#nukeWorld(callback)

This method destroys the world data. (ie: the dir specified by the level-name property in server.properties) This is a nice way to give your world a clean slate without needing to reconfigure the entire server.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)

Server#linkJar(location, callback)

This method creates a symbolic link at server/minecraft_server.jar pointing to the location specified.

Arguments

• location - The absolute path to a valid minecraft_server.jar file
• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)

Server#downloadJar(url, callback)

This method downloads the file located at the specified url via HTTP to server/minecraft_server.jar.

Arguments

• url - The url pointing to a valid minecraft_server.jar
• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)

Server#start(callback)

This method will start the server instance, when the server has started properly, it will set the Server#game property with the node-minecraft-runner instance object.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)

Server#stop(callback)

This method will stop the server instance, once the server stops/exits, the Server#game property will be deleted.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)

Server#restart(callback)

This is short-hand for stopping and starting the server, any errors encountered by either will be passed to the callback.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)

Server#backup(callback)

This method handles running a backup for the server's server/ directory. (to exclude the backups themselves from being part of the backup) This method also handles the necessary steps to take if the server is actively running, such as broadcasting a message to the current users, forcing the server to flush data to disk, etc.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)
  • timestamp - Date reflecting the time of the backup itself

Server#restore(timestamp, callback)

This method restores a server from a previously-run backup. Unlike Server#backup(), it cannot be run while the server is still actively running.

Arguments

• callback - Arguments provided:
  • err - Error object (if relevent)