streamer 0.1.2

Streamer is a handy tool deal with stream
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Introduction

Streamer is a handy tool deal with stream, it provides a set of structs and trait to stream

  • File
  • String
  • &'static str
  • Vec<T>
  • [T; N]
  • Box<[T]>

Quick Start

Some example to walk you through:

echo "1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw" >> info

use streamer::{Stream, StreamExt, Streaming};
async fn run() {
    let file = File::open("info").unwrap();
    let streaming = Streaming::from(file);
    streaming
        .chunks(5)
        .take(3)
        .for_each(|en| async move {
            println!("stream 5 bytes as a chunk: {:?}", std::str::from_utf8(&en).unwrap());
        })
        .await;
}

it output:

stream 5 bytes as a chunk: 12345
stream 5 bytes as a chunk: 67890
stream 5 bytes as a chunk: abcde

async fn run() {
    // let s = "1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw"; // output the same as above
    // let s = "1234567890abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw".to_string(); // output the same as above
    let s: [u8; 10] = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0];
    let s  = vec![1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 0];
    let streaming = Streaming::from(s);
    streaming
        .chunks(4)
        .take(3)
        .for_each(|en| async move {
            println!("{:?}", &en);
        })
        .await;
}

it output:

[1, 2, 3, 4]
[5, 6, 7, 8]
[9, 0]

Hyper Body Integration

Since I am heavy user of hyper, send body of request is not that convenient as others especially for streaming image, video document and so on. it enable you stream large file in chunks in HTTP Format

To use, enable hyper feature

[dependencies]
streamer = { version = "*", features = ["hyper"] }

use hyper::{Body, Request}:
let file = File::open("info").unwrap();
let mut streaming = Streamer::new(file);
streaming.meta.set_buf_len(10); // length sent as a chunk, the default is 64kB
streaming.meta.set_name("doc"); // field name 
streaming.meta.set_filename("info"); // file name
let body: Body = streaming.streaming();
// build a request 
let request: Request<Body> = Request::post("<uri-here>").body(body).expect("failed to build a request");

it will sennd the file info in 10-bytes chunks, each chunk are formated into HTTP multipart/form-data, with this you can split large file and stream it chunks by chunks.

Features to Add

May be some compression could be done to lower network traffic

  • Streaming Chunks Compression