Thanks, Floby. I think your suggestion of a balancing multi-output stream is a good idea.
On Tuesday, September 10, 2013 12:07:51 AM UTC-7, Floby wrote: > > I'd go with a different solution where this is not the transform stream > doing the load balancing... > > The transform stream transforms. you need another stream to balance. > > Source -> transform -> balance -> (dest1, dest2) > > You'd need to override the pipe method on your balance stream, which might > be easier said than done (right). > Of course, there may already be a module that does exactly that, that I'm > not aware of. > > On Monday, 9 September 2013 20:55:48 UTC+2, Tyler Neylon wrote: >> >> You can call pipe multiple times on a single readable stream, like this: >> >> var reader = createReadableStream(); >> reader.pipe(createWritableStream(1)); >> reader.pipe(createWritableStream(2)); >> >> which is cool. However, I am implementing a transform stream, and I'd >> like to be able to do something like this: >> >> var transform = createTransformStream(); >> reader.pipe(transform); >> transform.multipipe(1, writer1); // NOT the usual pipe; args explained >> below. >> transform.multipipe(2, writer2); >> >> where the transform stream is smart enough to slow down its input if >> *either* writer1 or writer2 request to pause (i.e. return false on a call >> to write()). >> >> The notation multipipe(n, <writer>) is meant to indicate that the two >> writers receive different streams, unlike the usual behavior of pipe in the >> first example. This is analogous to piping in bash where I have separate >> output via both stderr and stdout, like this: >> >> $ cat afile | ./somebinary > outfile1 &> outfile2 >> >> Is there a nice way to support this functionality in the current streams >> interface? >> >> thanks! >> >> -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
