decodeArrayStream vs decodeStream

[msgpack]

decodeArrayStream vs decodeStream

[gfx]

Those examples look not so good and should be improved.

In fact, both can handle chunk of encoded MessagePack binaries, but they handle different formats.

decodeStream handles {"name": "foo"}{"name":"bar"} (shown as JSON for readability), whereas decodeArrayStream handles [{"name": "foo"},{"name":"bar"}].

Does it make sense for you?

[grantila]

Kind of, clarifying that would surely be useful.

My question is rather, can I send a stream of individually incomplete chunks? Uint8Array's that are, say, at most n bytes large. This would be an input stream as your example of (n=6):

         +--------+
 Chunk 1 | {"name |
         +--------+
         +--------+
 Chunk 2 | ": "fo |
         +--------+
         +--------+
 Chunk 3 | o"}{"n |
         +--------+
         +--------+
 Chunk 4 | ame":" |
         +--------+
         +-------+
 Chunk 5 | bar"} |
         +-------+

Can I get this output stream of decoded:

           +---------------+
 Message 1 | {name: 'foo'} |
           +---------------+
           +---------------+
 Message 2 | {name: 'bar'} |
           +---------------+

Is this possible?

[gfx]

@grantila

Yes, it is possible and the default in all the async or stream decoders. For example, see tests for decodeAsync https://github.com/msgpack/msgpack-javascript/blob/master/test/decodeAsync.test.ts#L28-L37