Node-restify: Pipe a stream with client to server?

[FLYBYME]

Does anyone have any example code for piping a file from the client to the server?

[alvarolm]

+1

[mcavage]

Sure, it's straight up node streams:

var assert = require('assert');
var fs = require('fs');
var restify = require('restify');

var server = restify.createServer();

server.put('/:name', function (req, res, next) {
        var stream = fs.createWriteStream('/tmp/' + req.params.name);
        req.pipe(stream);
        req.once('end', function () {
                console.log('srv: responding');
                res.send(204);
        });
        next();
});

server.listen(8080, function () {
        var client = restify.createClient({
                url: 'http://localhost:8080'
        });

        console.log('client: sending');
        client.put('/words', function (err, req) {
                assert.ifError(err);

                fs.createReadStream('/usr/dict/words').pipe(req);
                req.once('result', function (err) {
                        assert.ifError(err);
                        console.log('client: got response');
                        server.close();
                });
        });
});

[praxiswest]

Hi, it looks like the current version of Restify doesn't support streaming the request. If I pipe the request to a writeable stream I get nothing out of it. Did this change???

[mcavage]

No, streaming is definitely supported. Can you show me a code snippet?

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:47 PM, jalanhunt [email protected] wrote:

Hi, it looks like the current version of Restify doesn't support streaming
the request. If I pipe the request to a writeable stream I get nothing out
of it. Did this change???

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[praxiswest]

My apologies - this wasn't a restify bug. Nevermind. :)

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Mark Cavage [email protected]:

No, streaming is definitely supported. Can you show me a code snippet?

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:47 PM, jalanhunt [email protected]
wrote:

Hi, it looks like the current version of Restify doesn't support
streaming
the request. If I pipe the request to a writeable stream I get nothing
out
of it. Did this change???

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https://github.com/mcavage/node-restify/issues/218#issuecomment-29849018>
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Web Application Consulting & Development
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Email: [email protected]

[praxiswest]

Actually, I found that using the restify bodyparser makes it so that the
incoming request can't be streamed... I don't know if this is mentioned in
the Restify docs & if it's worth mentioning...

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 6:54 PM, Jeffrey Hunt [email protected] wrote:

My apologies - this wasn't a restify bug. Nevermind. :)

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Mark Cavage [email protected]:

No, streaming is definitely supported. Can you show me a code snippet?

On Wed, Dec 4, 2013 at 1:47 PM, jalanhunt [email protected]
wrote:

Hi, it looks like the current version of Restify doesn't support
streaming
the request. If I pipe the request to a writeable stream I get nothing
out
of it. Did this change???

—
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub<
https://github.com/mcavage/node-restify/issues/218#issuecomment-29849018>

.

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Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/mcavage/node-restify/issues/218#issuecomment-29849615
.

Jeffrey Hunt
Web Application Consulting & Development
Mobile: [phone]
Email: [email protected]

Jeffrey Hunt
Web Application Consulting & Development
Mobile: [phone]
Email: [email protected]