The data directory

Molid uses the file system to initialize the data it provides at runtime. Unlike real Solid server implementations like Node Solid Server it will never change any data in that directory.

Default data dir

When you start Molid via CLI or an npm script, it will use the default data dir called .molid, relative to the place where you execute the command. The default data dir is also used when calling start() without a dataDir.

Initialization

When Molid starts it will create the data dir, if it does not yet exist. In that case, it will initialize the directory with a minimal Solid profile. If the data dir does already exist, Molid will not touch anything.

After initialization, Molid will continue to import the data from that directory into it’s internal store.

Data Import

After initialization, Molid imports all data from the data dir to an internal store. The relative path of the files results in a matching url path, but the file endings starting with $ will be stripped.

Some examples:

File	URL path
.molid/public/bookmarks	/public/bookmarks
.molid/notes.ttl	/notes.ttl
.molid/profile/card$.ttl	/profile/card

Edit data

You can edit, add or remove files inside the data directory as you wish. All files have to contain valid RDF in turtle format.

Note

You have to restart Molid after you changed data.