IMO the new stream2 interface is designed to facilitate writing new streams
(and it does), so that it encourages you to write reusable streams
components instead of consuming streams manually.
On Monday, 1 July 2013 15:23:44 UTC+2, Gil Pedersen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a case where I want to consume a Readable, by:
>
> 1. Read n bytes.
> 2. Process buffer using a function with an async callback.
> 3. When callback completes, goto 1.
>
> I fail to see any simple solution to what I feel must be a somewhat common
> use case. The standard "on('readable', function() { this.read(); ... })"
> doesn't apply, as I have no way of deferring future 'readable' emits once I
> have returned from the handler.
>
> Can it really be that the most sensible solution is to fall back to the
> old API, using pause() and resume()? or have I missed something?
>
> Regards,
> Gil
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