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ternary-stream
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A ternary stream: conditionally control the flow of stream data
1: Conditionally filter content
Condition
if the condition returns truthy, data is piped to the child stream
var ternaryStream = require('ternary-stream');
var condition = function (data) {
return true;
};
process.stdin
.pipe(ternaryStream(condition, process.stdout))
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('./out.txt'));
Data will conditionally go to stdout, and always go to the file
2: Ternary stream
Ternary
var ternaryStream = require('ternary-stream');
var through2 = require('through2');
var count = 0;
var condition = function (data) {
count++;
return count % 2;
};
process.stdin
.pipe(ternaryStream(condition, fs.createWriteStream('./truthy.txt'), fs.createWriteStream('./falsey.txt')))
.pipe(process.stdout);
Data will either go to truthy.txt (if condition is true) or falsey.txt (if condition is false) and will always go to stdout
ternary-stream will pipe data to stream whenever condition is truthy.
If condition is falsey and elseStream is passed, data will pipe to elseStream.
After data is piped to stream or elseStream or neither, data is piped down-stream.
Type: function: takes in stream data and returns boolean
function (data) {
return true; // or false
}
Stream for ternary-stream to pipe data into when condition is truthy.
Optional, Stream for ternary-stream to pipe data into when condition is falsey.
(MIT License)
Copyright (c) 2014 Richardson & Sons, LLC
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
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FAQs
Fork stream based on passed condition, and collect down-stream
The npm package ternary-stream receives a total of 351,406 weekly downloads. As such, ternary-stream popularity was classified as popular.
We found that ternary-stream demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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