codecs

codecs

Create an binary encoder/decoder for Node's build in types like, json, utf-8, hex.

npm install codecs

Useful to support value encodings similar to leveldb's.

Usage

var codecs = require('codecs')
var json = codecs('json')

console.log(json.encode({hello: 'world'})) // new Buffer('{"hello":"world"}')
console.log(json.decode(new Buffer('{"hello":"world"}'))) // {hello: 'world'}

API

var codec = codecs(type)

Create a new codec.

Supported types are

• utf8
• json
• binary
• hex
• ascii
• base64
• ucs2
• ucs-2
• utf16le
• utf-16le
• binary

If an unknown type is passed in binary is used. If you want to use a custom codec you can pass in an object containing a an encode and decode method and that will be returned.

var buf = codec.encode(value)

Encode a value to a buffer.

var value = codec.decode(buf)

Decode a buffer to a value.

License

MIT