Canoe

Paddle downstream with Canoe, an S3 utility library for Node.js. Built on the AWS Node SDK.

Install

npm install canoe --save

Usage

Create a new Canoe instance by passing an instance of AWS.S3 from the aws-sdk module.

var AWS = require('aws-sdk'),
  Canoe = require('canoe');

var s3 = new AWS.S3();
var canoe = new Canoe(s3);

Methods

createPrefixedReadStream

Create a readable stream of all objects whose keys match a given prefix.

Usage

Combines multiple objects into a single readable stream, preserving the order of the objects.

// This will stream all objects starting with "path/to/things/name_"
// For example, it would match "path/to/things/name_1", "path/to/things/name_2", etc
canoe.createPrefixedReadStream({
  Bucket: 'bucket-name',
  Prefix: 'path/to/things/name_'
}, function (err, readable) {
  readable.pipe(process.stdout)
})

createWriteStream

A Node 0.10-friendly writable stream interface ("streams2") for uploading objects to S3.

Usage

Creates a writable stream for a given S3 bucket/key. The stream will be returned immediately and also passed to an optional callback.

The stream will be writable when it's returned, but not actually ready to send data to S3 yet (data will be buffered internally in the meantime). If you use the immediately returned stream, be sure to respect false-y return values, as Node's readable.pipe() does. The stream will be fully ready when the callback is run.

The stream will emit a writable event when it's ready to send data to S3. A close event will be emitted when the stream is fully done consuming (uploading) the data; this will happen after the finish event.

Basic usage:

var writableStream = canoe.createWriteStream({
  Bucket: 'bucket-name',
  Key: 'file/name'
});
writableStream.write(stuff);
writableStream.end();

Example: Piping a large file

// Create a stream and use it immediately
var writeable = canoe.createWriteStream({
  Bucket: 'random-access-memories',
  Key: 'instant.crush'
});


// For fun, let's keep track of how much memory we need.
// We'll print the memory peak once the upload finishes.
// Peak will stay fairly consistent regardless of file size.
var maxMemory = 0;
setInterval(function() {
  maxMemory = Math.max(maxMemory, process.memoryUsage().heapUsed);
}, 100);

writeable.on('close', function(data) {
  console.log('Peak memory heap usage was ' + maxMemory + ' bytes');
  process.exit();
});

// Imagine you have some massive file you want to upload that doesn't fit into memory
fs.createReadStream('./random-access-memories.log').pipe(writeable);

Example: Writing chunks of data

// Create a stream and wait to use it in a callback
var s3Params = {Bucket: 'random-access-memories', Key: 'instant.crush'};
canoe.createWriteStream(s3Params, function(err, writable) {
  if (err) return;

  writable.write("And we will never be alone again\n");
  writable.write("'Cause it doesn't happen every day\n");
  writable.write("Kinda counted on you being a friend\n");
  writable.write("Kinda given up on giving away\n");
  writable.write("Now I thought about what I wanna say\n");
  writable.write("But I never really know where to go\n");
  writable.write("So I chained myself to a friend\n");
  writable.write("'Cause I know it unlocks like a door...");
  writable.end("\n");
});

Contributing

See the contributing documentation.

Author

Evan Solomon (personal website), supported by The Obvious Corporation.

License

Copyright 2013 The Obvious Corporation.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See the top-level file LICENSE.txt and (http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0).