Creating a JSON database for storing metadata

index.html

@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
         <form>
             <input type="text" id="casename" name="casename" placeholder="Case Name"><br>
             <input type="text" id="socialmedia" name="socialmedia" placeholder="Social Media"><br>
-            <textarea id="description" name="description" placeholder="Incident Description..." rows="10" cols="30"></textarea>
+            <textarea id="incidentdescription" name="incidentdescription" placeholder="Incident Description..." rows="10" cols="30"></textarea>
         </form>
 
-        <label id="screenshot-path">Path:</label><br>
+        <label id="screenshot-path">Path: NONE</label><br>
         <button id="path-button" class="btn btn-primary">Select Path</button><br>
         <button id="screen-shot" class="btn btn-primary">Take Screenshot</button>
     </div>

renderer.js

@@ -13,22 +13,30 @@ const screenshot = document.getElementById('screen-shot');
 const screenshotMsg = document.getElementById('screenshot-path');
 const pathButton = document.getElementById('path-button');
 const casenameField = document.getElementById('casename');
+const socialmediaField = document.getElementById('socialmedia');
+const incidentdescriptionField = document.getElementById('incidentdescription');
 
-var screenshotPath = '';
+
+var directoryPath = '';
 var caseName = '';
+var socialMedia = '';
+var incidentDescription = '';
 
 pathButton.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
-    dialog.showSaveDialog({
+    dialog.showOpenDialog({
-            filters: [
+            title: 'Choose a folder for DocumentIt to save in',
-                { name: 'png', extensions: ['png'] }
+            buttonLabel: 'Select Path',
+            properties: [
+                'openDirectory',
+                'createDirectory',
             ]
         },
-        function(fileName) {
+        function(paths) {
-            if (fileName === undefined) {
+            if (paths === undefined || paths.length === 0) {
                 return;
             }
-            screenshotPath = fileName;
+            directoryPath = paths[0]; // paths is an array, get the first (only) one
-            screenshotMsg.textContent = screenshotPath;
+            screenshotMsg.textContent = "Path: "+directoryPath;
         });
 });
 
@@ -38,29 +46,71 @@ screenshot.addEventListener('click', function(event) {
     let options = { types: ['screen'], thumbnailSize: thumbSize };
 
     desktopCapturer.getSources(options, function(error, sources) {
-        if (error) return console.log(error.message);
+        if (error) return displayError(error.message);
 
         sources.forEach(function(source) {
             if (source.name === 'Entire Screen' || source.name === 'Entire screen' || source.name === 'Screen 1') {
 
+                // get values from form
                 caseName = casenameField.value;
-                if (screenshotPath === '') {
+                socialMedia = socialmediaField.value;
+                incidentDescription = incidentdescriptionField.value;
+
+                if (directoryPath === '') return displayError("Please Select a Path to save the screenshot to.");
+
                 timestamp = new Date().getTime();
-                    screenshotPath = path.join(os.tmpdir(), caseName + '-' + timestamp + '.png');
+                screenshotFilename = caseName + '-' + timestamp + '.png';
-                }
+                screenshotPath = path.join(directoryPath, screenshotFilename);
 
                 fs.writeFile(screenshotPath, source.thumbnail.toPng(), function(error) {
-                    if (error) return console.log(error.message);
+                    if (error) return displayError(error.message);
 
                     shell.openExternal('file://' + screenshotPath);
-                    var message = 'Saved screenshot to: ' + screenshotPath;
+                    screenshotMsg.textContent = 'Saved screenshot to: ' + screenshotPath;
-                    screenshotMsg.textContent = message;
+
+                    // if file was written, save to db as well
+                    updateDatabase(directoryPath, screenshotFilename, caseName, socialMedia, incidentDescription);
                 })
             }
         });
     });
 });
 
+function updateDatabase(directoryPath, screenshotFilename, caseName, socialMedia, incidentDescription) {
+    // open/read db
+    dbPath = path.join(directoryPath, "documentit-data.json");
+    try {
+        dbContents = fs.readFileSync(dbPath, {encoding: "utf8"});
+    } catch (err) {
+        console.log(err);
+        console.log("Unable to open database, starting new db.");
+        dbContents = "{}"; // file doesn't exist, create blank JSON
+    }
+    var database = JSON.parse(dbContents);
+
+    // init db if not init'd
+    // "cases" parent object
+    if (!database.hasOwnProperty('cases')) database.cases = {};
+    // each case is indexed by name (TODO: help users avoid typo'd case names)
+    if (!database.cases.hasOwnProperty(caseName)) database.cases[caseName] = {};
+
+    now = new Date(); // screenshots are indexed by unix timestamp
+    database.cases[caseName][now.getTime()] = {
+        'date': now.toLocaleString(), // human-readable duplicate of index time
+        'socialMedia': socialMedia,
+        'incidentDescription': incidentDescription,
+        'screenshotFilename': screenshotFilename
+    };
+
+    // write db. stringify with two spaces for human-readability
+    fs.writeFileSync(dbPath, JSON.stringify(database, null, '  '));
+}
+
+function displayError(message) {
+    screenshotMsg.textContent = "ERROR: "+message;
+    return console.log(message);
+}
+
 function determineScreenShot() {
     const screenSize = electronScreen.getPrimaryDisplay().workAreaSize;
     const maxDimension = Math.max(screenSize.width, screenSize.height);