Protocol Buffers with Length Prefixes

npm install protobuf-length-encoded --save

var proto = require('protobuf-length-encoded')
var schema = [{ "name": "msg", "type": "string" }]
var encoderStream = proto.Encoder(schema)
var decoderStream = proto.Decoder(schema)

... grab your socket stream or whatever ...
encoderStream.pipe(stream).pipe(decoderStream)
.. Listen for incoming decoded messages ..
decoderStream.on('data', function(data) {
  .. process yo data ..
})
.. Write out your data using the encoder ..
encoderStream.write(JSON.stringify({msg: 'This is a message'}))

Uses the very nice protocol-buffers library.

I needed to either delimit or length encode protocol buffers since I would be sending them over network sockets and couldn't guarantee order or chunking.

This uses 32-bit integers, which is very likely too big. I don't know, maybe it's fine.

If you have ideas feel free to leave an issue. I'm sure the code could use some optimization, and better tests.

Darel Finkbeiner