bufferstream

BufferStream

painless stream buffering, cutting and piping.

install

make sure you have node-waf installed (contained in nodejs-dev package).

npm install bufferstream

api

BufferStream is a full node.js Stream so it has apis of both Writeable Stream and Readable Stream.

BufferStream

stream = new BufferStream([encoding])

• encoding default encoding for writing strings

stream.enable

stream.enable()

enables stream buffering default

stream.disable

stream.disable()

flushes buffer and disables stream buffering. BufferStream now pipes all data as long as the output accepting data. when the output is draining BufferStream will buffer all input temporary.

stream.split

stream.split(token, ...)
stream.split(tokens) // Array

• token[s] buffer splitters (should be String or Buffer)

each time BufferStream finds a splitter token in the input data it will emit a split event. this also works for binary data.

Event: 'split'

stream.on('split', function (chunk, token) {…})
stream.split(token, function (chunk, token) {…}) // only get called for given token

BufferStream slices its buffer to the first position of on of the splitter tokens and emits it. this data will be lost when not handled.

stream.getBuffer

stream.getBuffer()
// or just
stream.buffer

returns its Buffer.

stream.toString

stream.toString()

shortcut for stream.buffer.toString()

example

BufferStream = require('bufferstream')
stream = new BufferStream('utf8')
stream.split('//', ':')
stream.on('split', function (chunk, token) {
    console.log("got '%s' by '%s'", chunk.toString(), token.toString())
})
stream.write("buffer:stream//23")
console.log(stream.toString())

results in

got 'buffer' by ':'
got 'stream' by '//'
23

• https://github.com/dodo/node-bufferstream/blob/master/example/split.js