Cat Stream
Buffers a readable stream and validates its length.
This can be considered a streams2 version of concat-stream with validation.
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API
var cat = require('cat-stream')
var stream = fs.createReadStream('some file.txt')
stream.pipe(cat(function (err, buf) {
}))
cat([options], [callback])
Creates a duplex stream.
You must pipe the readable stream into cat
.
The options are:
expect
(also aliased as expected
and expectedLength
) - Either an integer in bytes of the expected content length or true
. If true
, will check for source.headers['content-length']
. If the expected length does not match the resulting buffer, it will return a err.key === 'length-mismatch'
error.limit
- An integer in bytes of the maximum resulting buffer size. If the incoming data exceeds this limit, it will return a `err.key === 'length-exceeded' error.
callback(err, buf)
is an optional callback.
It simplifies the stream API and allows for only one exit.
buf
is the resulting buffer,
but if cat
or the source stream was destroyed, it will be undefined
.
Event: 'readable'
You can retrieve the buffer the streams2 way by listening to the readable event:
stream.pipe(cat()).on('readable', function () {
var buf = this.read(1)
})
but you should also listen to the error
event as well.
This is annoying, thus the callback
option.
Event: 'progress'
Every time data is collected, a progress
event is emitted.
To check how many bytes have been received, call this.received
.
To check the expected length, call this.expected
.
To check the total progress, calculate this.received / this.expected
.
Strings
By default, cat
assumes the source stream is a binary stream.
cat
will never support any other type of stream,
so please don't do anything like this:
stream.setEncoding('utf8')
stream.pipe(cat(function (err, buf) {
}))
Instead, you should do this:
stream.pipe(cat(function (err, buf) {
var string = buf.toString('utf8')
}))
License
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2013 Jonathan Ong me@jongleberry.com
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