We could move this into Writable pretty easily. It's an API change, but
certainly not unreasonable for 0.12, since it wouldn't be a breaking
change.

On Monday, April 15, 2013, Nathan Rajlich wrote:

> FWIW I volleyed for _flush() to be part of the Writable API directly,
> rather than Transform, before streams2 were solidified. I had the use-case
> at the time and apparently Liam does as well. C'est la vie.
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Isaac Schlueter 
> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>
> > wrote:
>
>> Usually "clean up" means "close" rather than "finish".  The "finish"
>> event simply means that all the data has been written, not necessarily
>> that any underlying resources have been cleaned up.
>>
>> You could listen on "finish" and do it then.
>>
>> If it's a Transform stream, and you need to make sure that you flush
>> something to the output after the last chunk is processed, you can
>> implement a `_flush(callback)` method.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:28 PM, Liam 
>> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', 
>> '[email protected]');>>
>> wrote:
>> > We need to make an async call to clean up our writable stream
>> > implementation, before emitting finish.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Monday, April 15, 2013 11:50:05 AM UTC-7, Isaac Schlueter wrote:
>> >>
>> >> You do not need to implement end(), no.  In fact, you probably
>> shouldn't.
>> >>
>> >> What are you trying to do?
>> >>
>> >> Note that Writables don't get an 'end' event, but rather a 'finish'
>> event.
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:55 AM, Liam 
>> >> <[email protected]<javascript:_e({}, 'cvml', '[email protected]');>>
>> wrote:
>> >> > I had the impression that _write() was the only method required in a
>> >> > stream.Writable subclass; is an end() implementation required to
>> detect
>> >> > calls to end()?
>> >> >
>> >> > This code shows that implementing _write() in a stream.Writable
>> >> > implementation won't detect a call to end()
>> >> >
>> >> > https://gist.github.com/mtibeica/5389437
>> >> >
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