A somewhat brute force solution

Will improve on it to make it easier to read and some functionality more reusable

Author: megoth

bin/lib/common.js

@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ module.exports.loadUsernames = loadUsernames
  * @returns {AccountManager}
  */
 function getAccountManager (config, options = {}) {
-  const ldp = new LDP(config)
+  const ldp = options.ldp || new LDP(config)
   const host = options.host || SolidHost.from({ port: config.port, serverUri: config.serverUri })
   return AccountManager.from({
     host,

bin/lib/updateIndex.js

@@ -1,20 +1,53 @@
-const { getAccountManager, loadConfig, loadUsernames } = require('./common')
+const fs = require('fs')
 const path = require('path')
+const cheerio = require('cheerio')
+const Handlebars = require('handlebars')
+const LDP = require('../../lib/ldp')
+const $rdf = require('rdflib')
+const { URL } = require('url')
+
+const { getAccountManager, loadConfig, loadUsernames } = require('./common')
+const { initConfigDir, initTemplateDirs } = require('../../lib/server-config')
+
+const SOLID = $rdf.Namespace('http://www.w3.org/ns/solid/terms#')
 
 module.exports = function (program) {
   program
     .command('updateindex')
     .description('Update index.html in root of all PODs that haven\'t been marked otherwise')
-    .action((options) => {
+    .action(async (options) => {
       const config = loadConfig(program, options)
+      const ldp = new LDP(config)
+      const configPath = initConfigDir(config)
+      const templates = initTemplateDirs(configPath)
+      const accountManager = getAccountManager(config, { ldp })
       const usernames = loadUsernames(config)
-      usernames.forEach(username => updateIndex(username, config))
+      const indexTemplatePath = path.join(templates.account, 'index.html')
+      const indexTemplateSource = fs.readFileSync(indexTemplatePath, 'utf-8')
+      const indexTemplate = Handlebars.compile(indexTemplateSource)
+      const usersProcessed = usernames.map(async name => {
+        const userDirectory = accountManager.accountDirFor(name)
+        const indexFilePath = path.join(userDirectory, 'index.html')
+        const indexSource = fs.readFileSync(indexFilePath, 'utf-8')
+        const $ = cheerio.load(indexSource)
+        const allowAutomaticUpdateValue = $('meta[name="solid-allow-automatic-updates"]').prop('content')
+        const allowAutomaticUpdate = !allowAutomaticUpdateValue || allowAutomaticUpdateValue === 'true'
+        if (!allowAutomaticUpdate) {
+          return
+        }
+        const serverUrl = new URL(config.serverUri)
+        const accountUrl = `${serverUrl.protocol}//${name}.${serverUrl.host}/`
+        const metaFileUri = `${accountUrl}/${ldp.suffixMeta}`
+        const metaData = await ldp.readContainerMeta(userDirectory)
+        const metaGraph = $rdf.graph()
+        $rdf.parse(metaData, metaGraph, metaFileUri, 'text/turtle')
+        const webIdNode = metaGraph.any(undefined, SOLID('account'), $rdf.sym(accountUrl))
+        const webId = webIdNode.value
+        const newIndexSource = indexTemplate({ name, webId })
+        fs.writeFileSync(indexFilePath, newIndexSource, 'utf-8')
+      })
+      await Promise.all(usersProcessed)
+      console.log(`Processed ${usersProcessed.length} users`)
     })
 }
 
-function updateIndex (username, config) {
-  const accountManager = getAccountManager(config)
-  const userDirectory = accountManager.accountDirFor(username)
-  const indexFile = path.join(userDirectory, 'index.html')
-  console.log(indexFile)
-}

package-lock.json

@@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
     "busboy": "^0.2.12",
     "cached-path-relative": "^1.0.2",
     "camelize": "^1.0.0",
+    "cheerio": "^1.0.0-rc.2",
     "colorette": "^1.0.5",
     "commander": "^2.9.0",
     "cors": "^2.7.1",