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iltorb
iltorb is a Node.js package offering native bindings for the brotli compression library.
Install
This module uses prebuild to download a pre-compiled binary for your platform, if it exists. Otherwise, it will use node-gyp to build the module.
npm install iltorbPrerequisites for Building
The following is required to build from source or when a pre-compiled binary does not exist.
- Python 2.7
- GCC 4.8+ (Unix) or windows-build-tools (Windows), see Node Building tools.
Methods
Async
Omitting the callback argument will result in the compress and decompress methods to return a Promise.
compress(buffer[, brotliEncodeParams][, callback])
const compress = require('iltorb').compress;
// callback style
compress(input, function(err, output) {
// ...
});
// promise style
compress(input)
.then(output => /* ... */)
.catch(err => /* ... */);
// async/await style
try {
const output = await compress(input);
} catch(err) {
// ...
}decompress(buffer[, callback])
const decompress = require('iltorb').decompress;
// callback style
decompress(input, function(err, output) {
// ...
});
// promise style
decompress(input)
.then(output => /* ... */)
.catch(err => /* ... */);
// async/await style
try {
const output = await decompress(input);
} catch(err) {
// ...
}Sync
compressSync(buffer[, brotliEncodeParams])
const compressSync = require('iltorb').compressSync;
try {
var output = compressSync(input);
} catch(err) {
// ...
}decompressSync(buffer)
const decompressSync = require('iltorb').decompressSync;
try {
var output = decompressSync(input);
} catch(err) {
// ...
}Stream
compressStream([brotliEncodeParams])
const compressStream = require('iltorb').compressStream;
const fs = require('fs');
fs.createReadStream('path/to/input')
.pipe(compressStream())
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('path/to/output'));compressionStream.flush()
Call this method to flush pending data. Don't call this frivolously, premature flushes negatively impact the effectiveness of the compression algorithm.
decompressStream()
const decompressStream = require('iltorb').decompressStream;
const fs = require('fs');
fs.createReadStream('path/to/input')
.pipe(decompressStream())
.pipe(fs.createWriteStream('path/to/output'));brotliEncodeParams
The compress, compressSync and compressStream methods may accept an optional brotliEncodeParams object to define some or all of brotli's compression parameters:
const brotliEncodeParams = {
mode: 0,
quality: 11,
lgwin: 22,
lgblock: 0,
disable_literal_context_modeling: false,
size_hint: 0, // automatically set for `compress` and `compressSync`
large_window: false,
npostfix: 0,
ndirect: 0
};Troubleshooting
I am unable to install
iltorbbecause the host (GitHub) that serves the binaries is blocked by my firewall.a) By default, if the binaries could not be downloaded for any reason, the install script will attempt to compile the binaries locally on your machine. This requires having all of the build requirements fulfilled.
b) You can override the
binary.hostvalue found inpackage.jsonwith the following methods:- using the following ENV variable
npm_config_iltorb_binary_host=https://domain.tld/path as an additional argument with npm install
--iltorb_binary_host=https://domain.tld/pathNote: Both of these would result in downloading the binary from
https://domain.tld/path/vX.X.X/iltorb-vX.X.X-node-vXX-arch.tar.gz
- using the following ENV variable