socket-pack

support pack and unpack for socket data.

features:

• support pack and send large data (max 2^32 Bytes) to other side
• concat data from multiple data events and emit a single package event

Usage

const wrap = require('socket-pack')
const net = require('net')

// server
let server = net.createServer(conn => {
  // wrap connection (socket === conn)
  let socket = wrap(conn)

  // send data (could be large data)
  socket.send({
    foo: 'very very large data ....'
  })
})

server.listen(12344, () => {
  // client
  let client = net.createConnection(12344, () => {
    // wrap connection (socket === conn)
    let socket = wrap(client)

    // receive data (will receive entire data object)
    socket.on('package', data => {
      // print: {foo: 'bar'}
      console.log(data)
    })
  })
})

API

wrap(socket, opts)

Params:

• socket, {net.Socket} socket instance to wrap
• opts, {Object} set wrap options
  • opts.encode, {Function} function to encode (Mixed -> Buffer)
  • opts.decode, {Function} function to decode (Buffer -> Mixed)

After call wrap() on Socket instance, the methods bellow will be available

socket.send(data[, callback])

pack data and send.

Params:

• data, {String|Object} data to send
• callback, {Function} will invoke after data sent

event: package

emit when data package received

LICENSE

MIT