binarypoint

Write and read seperated binary messages

Installation

npm install binarypoint

Documentation

This is a duplex stream there wraps a binary duplex stream. The binarypoint then splits and joins the binary data up intro buffers, by adding a UInt16BE chunk to the output and the consume that chunk on input.

Dude to the limitations of an UInt16BE you can not write messages larger than 64 KB.

In reality this is an object stream, since the buffer objects don't get concatenated, but it acts very much like a buffer stream and you can use it at such.

Features:

• The module supports backpresure on the underlying socket.
• Allows for fast writing, by propagating encodeing details.
• Relay close event on the underlying socket.
• Relay error events on the underlying socket.

Example:

var binarypoint = require('binarypoint');
var socket = net.connect(5000); // Connect to an echo server
 
var spliter = binarypoint(socket);
 
spliter.once('readable', function () {
  // socket rescived two messages as "\0x00\0x05hallo\0x00\0x05Again".
  // those messages got split up.
  spliter.read() // <Buffer 68 61 6c 6c 6f> = 'hallo'
  spliter.read() // <Buffer 77 6f 72 6c 64> = 'world'
});
 
// Writes: "\0x00\0x05hallo\0x00\0x05Again".
spliter.write('hallo');
spliter.write('again');
spliter.end();

License

The software is license under "MIT"

Copyright (c) 2013 Andreas Madsen

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