file-handlers.md

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Develop custom file handlers

To handle custom file formats, register a function with the file-handler tag, and specify the comma-separated extensions in the meta.ext parameter. Function's input is either a string or a list of bytes, the output is list of tables.

For example, the following function will get executed whenever a user opens a file with the "fasta" extension:

//input: string content
//output: list tables
//tags: file-handler
//meta.ext: fasta
function fastaFileHandler(content) {
    // ... processing files ...
    return tables;
}