I suggest you checkout Raynos' stream modules, he is mostly used Streams2,
I think you will be able to find everything you are looking for
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 7:20 AM, Arpad Borsos
<arpad.bor...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I’m really excited to read about the new streams2 interfaces. They make a
> lot of sense when you are dealing with binary/string data. The automatic
> splice()-ing and join()-ing is awesome.
> But they kind of fall short when it comes to handling arbitrary objects
> (these may also be plain strings).
>
> Lets just consider that I have a binary Readable stream and I want to pipe
> it to a Transform stream that parses the binary data into js objects.
> Later on, I want to read() a single object or read(n) objects. Or maybe
> even read(0) to read all the objects until 'end'. So the stream interface
> itself would take care of buffering and the likes.
>
> Also the other way around:
> How can I create a Writable (Transform) stream that serialized arbitrary
> objects into binary data that I can then just pipe into tcp or onto disk?
>
> Other than the streaming parser/serializer, I can also think of complete
> pipelines that manipulate arbitrary objects in a streaming manner.
>
> Something like
> ```
> Readable(…)
> .pipe(parser())
> .pipe(filter('a >= 10'))
> .pipe(map('a'))
> .pipe(inGroupsOf(4))
> .pipe(sum('a'))
> .pipe(serializer())
> .pipe(…)
> ```
>
> Note that those “arbitrary objects” might be strings or Buffers themselves.
>
> So any pointers on how to achieve such a thing with streams2 would be much
> appreciated.
> -Arpad
>
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