I done it on the client side before piping through.

On Sunday, February 17, 2013 2:07:00 AM UTC+7, aaronheckmann wrote:
>
> Thanks all!
>
> On Saturday, February 16, 2013, Nathan Rajlich wrote:
>
>> objectMode is for the *implementor* of the Writable stream. I.e. if I'm 
>> writing a writable stream subclass, which is meant to accept Objects 
>> instead of bytes (strings/buffers), then I'd use "objectMode". When 
>> objectMode is on, the _write() callback function will receive the Objects 
>> that have been written, rather than a flattened Buffer object (from the 
>> buffers/strings written in non-objectMode).
>>
>> Readable streams also have "objectMode" but it's basically the same 
>> concept: the readable outputs Objects instead of bytes, and thus the 
>> .read(n) function will simply return an Object, ignoring the "n" parameter.
>>
>> Hope that makes sense!
>>
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 7:29 AM, Aaron Heckmann <[email protected]
>> > wrote:
>>
>> I agree my test was magical.
>>
>> I'm still unclear about objectModes purpose in fs.WriteStream. Is it 
>> really more of a
>> stringMode?
>>
>>
>> On Friday, February 15, 2013, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
>>
>> I'd think that writing non-string/buffer data into an fs stream has
>> probably always been an error.  At best, it's undefined behavior
>> (which you may be relying on, but it's still not guaranteed by the
>> API).
>>
>> Relying on custom toString() is an antipattern.  It reeks of excessive
>> magic.  Just cast to a string explicitly if that's what you mean to
>> do.
>>
>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Aaron Heckmann
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Previously a WriteStream created with fs.createWriteStream converted
>> > non-Buffers to buffers by concating an empty string with the data which 
>> gave
>> > us an opportunity to run formatting logic on the data by setting a 
>> custom
>> > toString method. This no longer works because fs.WriteStream._write 
>> rejects
>> > any non-Buffer, even in objectMode.
>> >
>> > Seems like a bug but I'm just starting to familiarize myself with the 
>> new
>> > streams and maybe I'm "doing it wrong".
>> >
>> > Thanks for the assistance.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Friday, February 15, 2013, Nathan Rajlich wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Aaron, I'm a little confused at exactly what you're trying to do, but 
>> if
>> >> you have a Readable stream outputting "objects" of some kind (since 
>> it's in
>> >> objectMode), and you pipe() to a writable stream that is *not* in 
>> objectMode
>> >> (i.e. it's expecting strings and/or buffers), then what would you 
>> expect the
>> >> Writable stream to do? How would it know how to convert your Object 
>> from the
>> >> readable stream into a Buffer?
>> >>
>> >> On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Aaron Heckmann
>> >> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> In node < 0.9, WriteStreams converted non-Buffers to Buffers
>> >>> transparently.
>> >>>
>> >>> 
>> https://github.com/joyent/node/blob/v0.8.20-release/lib/fs.js#L1557-L1561
>> >>>
>> >>> In 0.9, this is not the case, which leaves me a bit confused with the
>> >>> ReadableStreams objectMode option. I'd like to pipe a ReadableStream 
>> in
>> >>> objectMode to a writable stream and rely on conversion to Buffers 
>> without
>> >>> needing to create a transform stream, the way I could in 0.8x. Is 
>> this by
>> >>> design?
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>> 
>> http://nodejs.org/docs/v0.9.8/api/stream.html#stream_new_stream_readable_options
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
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