Put
Pack multibyte binary values into buffers with specific endiannesses.
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This fork is derived from the original package currently only available via npm: put.
The GitHub repo seems to be inaccessible.
This fixes a potential Sensitive Data Exposure detailed here.
Installation
To install with npm:
npm install put
To run the tests with expresso:
expresso
Examples
buf.js
Build a buffer
#!/usr/bin/env node
var Put = require('put');
var buf = Put()
.word16be(1337)
.word8(1)
.pad(5)
.put(new Buffer('pow', 'ascii'))
.word32le(9000)
.buffer()
;
console.log(buf);
Output:
<Buffer 05 39 01 00 00 00 00 00 70 6f 77 28 23 00 00>
stream.js
Send a buffer to a writeable stream
#!/usr/bin/env node
var Put = require('put');
Put()
.word16be(24930)
.word32le(1717920867)
.word8(103)
.write(process.stdout)
;
Output:
abcdefg