channel-surfer

Promise-based CSP channels, with async iterator support.

Install

npm install channel-surfer

Usage

const Channel = require('channel-surfer')
const chan = new Channel()

// Consume with a simple `for await` loop

async function asyncAwaitConsumer() {
  for await (let message of chan) {
    console.log('received', message)
  }
}

// Or use the underlying promises with `channel.next()`

function manualConsumer () {
  channel.next().then(message => {
    console.log('received', message)
  }).then(manualConsumer)
}

setInterval(() => {
  chan.give('hello')
}, 100)

API

new Channel(): Channel

Create a new channel

const channel = new Channel()

channel.give(value: any): void

Give a value to the channel.

channel.give('hello')

channel.next(): Promise<IteratorItem>

Receive a value from the channel. Note that the final item in the channel will cycle to itself, so further calls to this method will continue to return the final item.

channel.next() // { done: false, value: 'hello' }

channel.close(): void

Close the channel to indicate no more values will be sent. This is required for a for await loop to complete.

channel.close()

channel.error(error: any): void

Send an error to the channel and then close it.

channel.error(new Error('oh no!'))

channel.giveBack(value: any): void

Put a value at the top of the queue, to be received by the next request.

channel.giveBack('hello')

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Copyright (c) 2019 Stephen Belanger

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