roundabout

Stack several transform streams behind a single stream for reusable piping magic.

Installation

roundabout is available on npm.

npm install roundabout

Usage

A Roundabout stream is technically a Duplex stream but behaves like Transform stream. When any number of transform/duplex streams are added to the stack, data written to the roundabout instance will pipe through all streams in the stack and emerge on the roundabout's readable side of things. This makes multi-pipe streams modular and reusable.

Features

• behaves like PassThrough until streams are added to the stack.
• adaptive objectMode and highWaterMark ensure public stream matches readable/writable states.
  • first stream in stack will adjust public stream's _writableState to match.
  • last stream will adjust _readableState
• roundabout streams can be used by other roundabout streams: STREAMCEPTION!

Example

In the following example we setup a psuedo-csv parser. The interesting behavior of this example is that the configuration for the readable state of our csv-parser stream will change depending on which transform stream is last added to the stack.

/*!
 * module dependencies
 */

var fs = require('fs');
var roundabout = require('roundabout');

/**
 * @param {Array} headers
 * @param {Boolean} stringify (default false)
 * @return {Roundabout} "transform" stream
 */

function csvToJson(headers, stringify) {
  var res = roundabout();

  // objectMode: false => objectMode: true
  // first used: res writable objectMode = false, res readable objectMode = true
  res.use(splitRows); 

  // objectMode: true (res readable unchanged)
  res.use(splitCols); 

  // objectMode: true (res readable unchanged)
  res.use(associateHeaders(headers));

  if (stringify) {
    // objectMode: true => objectMode: false
    // if used, will change res readable objectMode to false
    res.use(stringifyJson);
  }

  return res;
}

/*!
 * setup stream instances
 */

var csv = csvToJson([ 'first', 'last' ], true);
var input = fs.createReadStream('names.csv');
var output = fs.createWriteStream('names.json');

/*!
 * plumbing
 */

input.pipe(csv).pipe(output);

License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2013-2014 Jake Luer [email protected] (http://alogicalparadox.com)

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