GetRanges Method

Gets the list of allocated data ranges in a file.

Syntax

azurefile.getRanges(filePath, [callback])

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for this method is defined as:

function(err){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

This method gets the list of allocated data ranges in the file at the specified FilePath in the share currently selected by Share and populates the Range* properties with the results.

The server tracks ranges of file data in 512-byte chunks, aligned to the absolute beginning of the file; thus, the size of every range returned by this method will always be a multiple of 512. Chunks that are not currently allocated (either because no data has been written to them, or because they've been freed with ClearRange) will not be returned by this method.