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Richeve Bebedor
Richeve Bebedor

Reputation: 1658

NodeJS Create stream from buffer

I save my file to a buffer and cache the buffer for future use. Now I want to use the buffer to create a stream so that I can pipe it to the response again. Is this possible? and if it is then how?

Upvotes: 10

Views: 13233

Answers (2)

vincentlcy
vincentlcy

Reputation: 1217

I found this most promising, thanks to felixge (node committer, esp stream module) https://github.com/felixge/node-combined-stream

Example of piping a file to buffer first then construct a stream and pipe to process std out, modified from the article

(you can pipe from file systems stream directly, here is for illustrate)

Async loading buffer from file

var fs = require("fs");
var fileName = "image.jpg";

var CombinedStream = require('combined-stream');

var combinedStream = CombinedStream.create();

fs.exists(fileName, function(exists) {
  if (exists) {
    fs.stat(fileName, function(error, stats) {
      fs.open(fileName, "r", function(error, fd) {
        var buffer = new Buffer(stats.size);
        fs.read(fd, buffer, 0, buffer.length, null, function(error, bytesRead, buffer) {
             fs.close(fd);

           //even the file stream closed
           combinedStream.append(buffer);
           combinedStream.pipe(process.stdout);


        });
      });
    });
  }
});

Sync Loading buffer from file:

//get buffer
var buffer = readFileSync(fileName);
//or do it yourself
var stats = fs.statSync(fileName);
var buffer = new Buffer(stats.size);
var fd = fs.openSync(fileName,"r");
fs.readSync(fd,buffer,0,buffer.length,null);
fs.close(fd);

combinedStream.append(buffer);
combinedStream.pipe(process.stdout);

Upvotes: 2

ebohlman
ebohlman

Reputation: 15003

There's no native functionality in node for doing this. You might search around a bit to see if there are third-party libraries for it. If there aren't, it's possible, if a bit tedious, to write your own module that will do it, since any class that implements all the methods and properties listed in the documentation for Stream and emits and responds to all the events listed in the documentation is, by definition, a Stream and can be used anywhere that node's built-in Streams can.

Upvotes: 1

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