README
nodert-streams
Turns a WinRT stream (Wrapped using NodeRT) into a node.js stream. For more information on NodeRT, take a look at: https://github.com/NodeRT/NodeRT
You can download this module from NPM by running the following cmd:
npm install @nodert-win10/nodert-streams
If you have cloned the git repo (and not downloaded thm module from NPM) run the following command from inside the directory:
node-gyp rebuild
(For both of the above commands, make sure that node-gyp and all of its perquisites are installed)
API:
- InputStream class - instantiated by passing a WinRT input stream in the constructor, this object behaves like a readable nodejs stream.
- OutputStream class - instantiated by passing a WinRT input stream in the constructor, this object behaves like a writeable nodejs stream.
- toIBuffer function - accepts a node.js buffer and returns an IBuffer object which points to the same underlying native buffer.
Here is an example of using nodert-streams for piping contents of a file to stdout:
var streams = require('@nodert-win10/windows.storage.streams');
var storage = require('@nodert-win10/windows.storage');
var nodert_streams = require('@nodert-win10/nodert-streams');
var StorageFile = storage.StorageFile;
// open a file from the documents library
storage.KnownFolders.documentsLibrary.getFileAsync('document.txt', function(err, file) {
if (err) {
return console.info(err);
}
// call openAsync in order to retrieve the stream
file.openAsync(storage.FileAccessMode.read, function(err, fileStream) {
if (err) {
return console.info(err);
}
// convert the winrt stream to a node.js stream
var nodeStream = streams.InputStream(fileStream.getInputStreamAt(0));
// pipe the stream to the stdout
nodeStream.pipe(process.stdout);
});
});