barrage

Extensions to streams (as a mixin)

Installation

npm install barrage

API

The main export is barrage(stream) which adds the extension methods as helper methods to an existing stream.

It also exports the same API as the v0.10 stream module with Readable, Writable, Duplex, Transform and PassThrough (except that each one is extended with the barrage extensions mixin).

Note that no native modules are affected, all the extensions are safe to use with other non barrage code.

The following extensions are currently added to Barrage Streams:

barrage.syphon(stream, [options])

This is exactly like the built in source.pipe(destination, [options]) except that it also forwards any errors emitted by source to the destination. When your streams represent transformations, that is usually much more useful than the built in .pipe.

barrage.buffer([encoding], callback)

When the barrage is a readable stream, this method buffers the results and handles errors, resulting in a node.js style callback API. If there is no encoding parameter, the callback is called with an Array for the result. If encoding is 'buffer' then the callback is called with a single Buffer for the result. If any other string is passed as encoding, the encoding parameter is passed on to buffer.toString(encoding) and the result is therefore a String

If the callback parameter is absent, a Promises/A+ promise is returned instead.

barrage.wait(callback)

This works like barrage.buffer, except that it does not buffer the result. It will wait for an end or finish event and then call the callback. If an error event is fired, the callback is called with that error. The callback is only ever called once.

If the callback parameter is absent, a Promises/A+ promise is returned instead.

barrage.map(transform, options) / new barrage.Map(transform, options)

This passes each chunk to transform and then pushes the result of calling transform to the output stream. You can either call this as a method on an existing barrage stream, or create a Transform stream by calling new barrage.Map

e.g.

function square() {
  return new barrage.Map(function (x) {
    return x * x
  })
}

It supports both being asynchronous, and parallel:

function load() {
  return new barrage.Map(function (stat, callback) {
    fs.readFile(stat.fullPath, callback)
  }, {parallel: 10})
}

When operating in parallel, the ordering of the resulting stream is always preserved.

It also supports promises

function load() {
  return new barrage.Map(function (stat) {
    return Promise.denodeify(fs.readFile)(stat.fullPath)
  }, {parallel: 10})
}

barrage.filter(transform, options) / new barrage.Filter(transform, options)

This is exactly like barrage.map / new barrage.Map except that transform should return true or false and the chunks will be filtered based on that value.

barrage.bufferTransform(transform, encoding) / new barrage.BufferTransform(transform, encoding)

Takes a function that transforms a string and returns a Transform stream. e.g.

function coffeify(filename) {
  return new barrage.BufferTransform(function (src) {
    return compileCoffee(filename, src)
  }, 'utf8')
}
function compileCoffee(filename, src) {
  //do compilation and return a string
}
fs.createReadStream('src.coffee').pipe(coffeify('src.coffee')).pipe(fs.createWriteStream('src.js'))

This is mostly useful for processing files over stdio and creating browserify transforms.

The transform function may optionally take a callback argument (if it returns undefined) or return a promise (instead of a string).

License

MIT