now can read yaml

ts/index.ts

@@ -1,13 +1,40 @@
 /// <reference path="typings/tsd.d.ts" />
-var path = require("path");
-var fs = require("fs");
+var plugins = {
+    path: require("path"),
+    fs: require("fs-extra"),
+    yaml: require("js-yaml"),
+    beautylog: require("beautylog")("os")
+};
+
 
 var smartfile:any = {
     //read File to  string
-    readFileToString: (filePath) => {
+    readFileToString: function(filePath) {
         var fileString;
-        fileString = fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf8");
+        fileString = plugins.fs.readFileSync(filePath, "utf8");
         return fileString;
+    },
+    readFileToObject: function(filePath,fileTypeArg = "undefined") {
+        var fileType;
+        if (fileTypeArg == "undefined") {
+            fileType = plugins.path.extname(filePath);
+        } else {
+            fileType = fileTypeArg;
+        }
+        fileType = fileType.replace(/\.([a-z]*)/,"$1"); //remove . form fileType
+        switch (fileType) {
+            case "yml" :
+            case "yaml":
+                try {
+                    return plugins.yaml.safeLoad(plugins.fs.readFileSync(filePath, 'utf8'));
+                } catch (e){
+                    plugins.beautylog.error("check that " + filePath.blue + " points to a valid file");
+                }
+                break;
+            case "json":
+                return require(filePath);
+                break;
+        }
     }
 };
 

ts/test.ts

@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
 /// <reference path="typings/tsd.d.ts" />
 var smartfile = require("./index.js");
 var beautylog = require("beautylog")("os");
-beautylog.info(smartfile.readFileToString("./test/mytest.txt"));
+beautylog.info(smartfile.readFileToString("./test/mytest.txt"));
+console.log(smartfile.readFileToObject("./test/mytest.yaml"));
+console.log(smartfile.readFileToObject("./test/mytest.json"));
+//var thisIsAnError = smartfile.readFileToObject("./test/mytestDoesNotExist.json");