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diff --git a/node_modules/pump/README.md b/node_modules/pump/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c81471 --- /dev/null +++ b/node_modules/pump/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,65 @@ +# pump + +pump is a small node module that pipes streams together and destroys all of them if one of them closes. + +``` +npm install pump +``` + +[![build status](http://img.shields.io/travis/mafintosh/pump.svg?style=flat)](http://travis-ci.org/mafintosh/pump) + +## What problem does it solve? + +When using standard `source.pipe(dest)` source will _not_ be destroyed if dest emits close or an error. +You are also not able to provide a callback to tell when then pipe has finished. + +pump does these two things for you + +## Usage + +Simply pass the streams you want to pipe together to pump and add an optional callback + +``` js +var pump = require('pump') +var fs = require('fs') + +var source = fs.createReadStream('/dev/random') +var dest = fs.createWriteStream('/dev/null') + +pump(source, dest, function(err) { + console.log('pipe finished', err) +}) + +setTimeout(function() { + dest.destroy() // when dest is closed pump will destroy source +}, 1000) +``` + +You can use pump to pipe more than two streams together as well + +``` js +var transform = someTransformStream() + +pump(source, transform, anotherTransform, dest, function(err) { + console.log('pipe finished', err) +}) +``` + +If `source`, `transform`, `anotherTransform` or `dest` closes all of them will be destroyed. + +Similarly to `stream.pipe()`, `pump()` returns the last stream passed in, so you can do: + +``` +return pump(s1, s2) // returns s2 +``` + +If you want to return a stream that combines *both* s1 and s2 to a single stream use +[pumpify](https://github.com/mafintosh/pumpify) instead. + +## License + +MIT + +## Related + +`pump` is part of the [mississippi stream utility collection](https://github.com/maxogden/mississippi) which includes more useful stream modules similar to this one. |