length-prefixed-stream

2.0.0 • Public • Published

length-prefixed-stream

Streaming equivalent of length-prefixed-message. This module allow you to send buffers with a varint length prefix to ensure that they will arrive unpartioned

npm install length-prefixed-stream

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Usage

var lpstream = require('length-prefixed-stream')
 
var encode = lpstream.encode() // create an encode stream to send data
var decode = lpstream.decode() // create an decode stream to receive data
 
encode.write('hello world') // send "hello world"
 
decode.on('data', function(data) {
  console.log(data.toString()) // will always print "hello world"
})
 
encode.pipe(decode) // for testing just pipe to our selves

API

transformStream = lpstream.encode()

Creates a new encoder transform stream.

transformStream = lpstream.decode()

Creates a new decoder transform stream.

License

MIT

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