pipecast

$ npm install pipecast

The following example starts an http pipe on http://localhost:5000/pipe. POST requests body will be sent as downstream to all open GET requests.

var pipecast = require('pipecast');
var http = require('http');

// create an http pipe - everything POSTed will be broadcasted
// to all GETters.
var pipe = pipecast();

// serve the pipe through '/pipe'
http.createServer(function(req, res) {
	if (req.url === "/pipe") {
		return pipe(req, res);
	}

	res.write("GET /pipe: Start a downstream\n");
	res.write("POST /pipe: Send message into all downstreams\n");
	res.end();
}).listen(5000);
console.log('Listening on 5000');

Note that by default, pipecast will add a newline after each data chunk. If you wish not to alter the data at all, set options.map to function(d) { return d; }

Start the server:

$ node pipecast.js &
[1] 20992
Listening on 5000

Fire up a few listeners:

$ curl http://localhost:5000/pipe &
[2] 20996
$ curl http://localhost:5000/pipe &
[3] 20997
$ curl http://localhost:5000/pipe &
[4] 20998

Now start writing:

$ curl http://localhost:5000/pipe -d "Hello 1"
Hello 1
Hello 1
Hello 1
$ curl http://localhost:5000/pipe -d "Hello 2"
Hello 2
Hello 2
Hello 2

API

pipecast([options])

Returns function(req, res) which is an HTTP handler that can be used with the http module, express, connect and whatnot.

options.headers are headers to reply with for GET requests. Default is { 'content-type': 'text/plain' }

options.logger alternative logger (must conform to console). Default is null, in which case no logs will be emitted.

options.map is an optional function(data) => data that maps incoming data to outgoing data and can be used to transform upstream content. One common usage of this is to add a newline after each data chunk so that buffers will flush to downstream consumers. Default is to add a newline at the end of data.

pipecast.pipe()

Returns an object that conforms to node.js StreamReader and StreamWriter and pipes data from write() operations to data events.

LICENSE

MIT