nodert-streams

nodert-streams
=====
Turns a WinRT stream (Wrapped using NodeRT) into a node.js stream.
For more information on NodeRT, take a look at: https://github.com/NodeRT/NodeRT

You can download this module from NPM by running the following cmd:

``
npm install nodert-streams
`

If you have cloned the git repo (and not downloaded thm module from NPM) run the following command from inside the directory:

`
node-gyp rebuild
`

(For both of the above commands, make sure that node-gyp and all of its perquisites are installed)



API:

* Exposes an InputStream object which can be initiated by passing a WinRT input stream, this object behaves like a readable nodejs stream.
* Exposes an OutputStream object which can be initiated by passing a WinRT input stream, this object behaves like a writeable nodejs stream.

Prerequisites:

In order to use nodert-streams, please make sure first to generate and compile the following NodeRT module and place it in a node_modules directory near by:
* windows.storage.streams

Here is an example of using nodert-streams for piping contents of a file to stdout:

`javascript
var streams = require('windows.storage.streams');
var storage = require('windows.storage');
var nodert_streams = require('nodert-streams');
var StorageFile = storage.StorageFile;

// open a file from the documents library
storage.KnownFolders.documentsLibrary.getFileAsync('document.txt', function(err, file) {
if (err) {
return console.info(err);
}
// call openAsync in order to retrieve the stream
file.openAsync(storage.FileAccessMode.read, function(err, fileStream) {
if (err) {
return console.info(err);
}
// convert the winrt stream to a node.js stream
var nodeStream = streams.InputStream(fileStream);
// pipe the stream to the stdout
nodeStream.pipe(process.stdout);
});
});
``