Streamer

Streamer is a lib helping to iterate over streamed data while performing async operations on each piece of data streamed.

Install

npm install node-streamer

Usage

each

streamer.each(stream, iterator, callback)

Where :

• stream is a node.js readable stream
• iterator(elem, getStats, cb) is the method that will perform an async task. It has the following arguments:
  • elem data from the stream
  • getStats a method that can be called to get stats of the state of the current streaming, of the form:

    	{
    	  retrieved: <number>,
    	  processed: <number>
       }

  • cb to be called when the async task is done
• callback the callback called when the stream is done

Example:

var streamer = require('node-streamer');

// Dummy method to get a readable stream
// Typically: a large file, a mysql or mongo stream, whatever really
var stream = getStream();

// For each `data` retrieved for the stream, execute the iterator method, do something async,
// then call the callback
streamer.each(stream, function (elem, getStats, cb) {
	myAsyncMethod(function (err) {
		var stats = getStats();
		console.log('%d/%d', stats.processed, stats.retrieved);
		return cb(err);
	})
}, function (err, stats) {
	console.log('DONE: %d/%d', stats.processed, stats.retrieved);
	// do something when done
});

Test

In order to test you'll need to install mocha: npm install -g mocha. Then just run the mocha command at the root of your project.

Contribute

This lib is still very basic and might not perfectly fit your needs. If you think it would make sense to add some features/methods don't hesitate to fork and make pull requests.

Licence

Distributed under the MIT License.