SYNOPSIS

Get the complete body from a stream and parse it automatically.

MOTIVATION

A minimal wrapper around raw-body that provides you with the correct parser.

BUILD STATUS

USAGE

This module detects the content type of the stream and parses it appropriately. So for instance, if you request a resource with a content-type header which has the value of application/json, the response body will be parsed as JSON.

const http = require('http')
const body = require('stream-body')

const url = 'http://nodejs.org/dist/index.json'

http.get(url, res => body.parse(res, (err, data) => {

  // ...`data` will be a json object.
}))

EXTENDING

This module exports an object that exposes all parsers. For instance, the JSON parser implemintation is defined on the parsers member...

const body = require('stream-body')

body.parsers['application/json'] = function (data, opts, cb) {

  // `data` is the raw data object
  // `opts` is any options passed in to the parse function
  // `cb` is called after the stream has ended
}