arrayloader

TypedArray reading utility, Browserify aware.

Uses fs.readFile in node, and XHR when browserified.

Installation

npm install arrayloader

Example

var loader = require('arrayloader');
loader.load('/path/to/array.f32', function (err, arr) {
    // arr is a Float32Array
    console.log(arr);
});

write compatible arrays from numpy like this,

# given array 'a'
with open('/path/to/array.f32', 'wb') as f:
    f.write(a.astype(np.float32).tostring())

choose an extension for your file like this,

extension	TypedArray	numpy dtype	mime type
i8	Int8Array	int8	application/x-int8
u8	Uint8Array	uint8	application/x-uint8
i16	Int16Array	int16	application/x-int16
u16	Uint16Array	uint16	application/x-uint16
i32	Int32Array	int32	application/x-int32
u32	Uint32Array	uint32	application/x-uint32
f32	Float32Array	float32	application/x-float32
f64	Float64Array	float64	application/x-float64

or (for non-binary types) like this,

extension	type	mime type
json	json	application/json
key	json	application/json
txt	str	text/plain
csv	str	text/plain
tsv	str	text/plain

Extensions mapped to json will be parsed (with JSON.parse) before returning.

Details

This module can read text and binary files. It will attempt to infer type from the extension of the file. If the extension isn't recognized, the type defaults to Uint8Array.

Type inference can be overridden by supplying a second argument. If this argument is supplied but not recognized, the function returns immediately with an error. If supplied, this argument should be a string containing any of the values listed in the "numpy dtype" column from the first table or the "type" column from the second.

Extras

Files in this format can be read into python/numpy like this,

with open(doc_dir + 'array.f32', 'rb') as f:
    a = np.fromstring(f.read(), dtype="float32")

Notes

Extensions for binary types differ from the numpy dtype short form in one way. The numpy short dtype specifies number of bytes, this module uses the number of bits (just as in the long form).

Credits

based on the simple, but fantastic floader