tar-buffer

Buffers entries from a tar.Parse() stream into memory.

Usage

var fs = require('fs');
var zlib = require('zlib');
var tar = require('tar');
var TarBuffer = require('tar-buffer');
 
var parser = tar.Parse();
var buffer = new TarBuffer(parser)
  .on('error', function (err) { console.log ('tar error: %s', err); })
  .on('end', function () {
    //
    // Log all our files in memory
    //
    console.dir(buffer.files);
  });
 
//
// Read our tarball and pipe it to the tar parser.
//
fs.createReadStream('any-tarball.tgz')
  .pipe(zlib.Unzip())
  .on('error', function (err) { console.log('zlib error: %s', err); })
  .pipe(parser);

API

Options

• log: (optional) Log function to use. Expects console.log API.
• ignore: (optional) Array (or /\r?\n/ delimted string) of ignorefile lines.
• strip: (optional) Number of preceding segments of an entry path to strip.
• maxSize: (optional) Maximum number of bytes in a single file to buffer.

Events

• entry: similar the entry events emitted by the tar.Parse() stream except that these entries have been fully read into memory. The contents are located on e.content:

var buffer = new TarBuffer(parser)
  .on('entry', function (e) {
    console.log(e.content); // Log all file contents
  });

Why isn't this a proper stream?

Underneath the covers, tar emits several events, not just data events which have to be handled seprately from a traditional stream.

Author: Charlie Robbins

LICENSE: MIT