request-stream

Request-Stream

Request-Stream is a stream implementing a JSON request and response protocol

npm install request-stream

Lets try to setup a simple server

var rs = require('request-stream');
var net = require('net');

net.createServer(function(socket) {
	var r = rs();

	socket.pipe(r).pipe(socket);

	r.on('request', function(request, respond) {
		respond(null, {echo:request});
	});
}).listen(9000);

To make a request to the server we need to create a socket to the server and pipe our request to that.

var socket = net.connect(9000);
var r = rs();

socket.pipe(r).pipe(socket);

r.request('echo me please', function(err, reply) {
	console.log(err, reply);
});

If we wanted to use tls instead of tcp we could just have implemented the above example using tls streams. We could even use WebSockets using shoe.