import { Buffer } from "https://deno.land/std@0.208.0/streams/buffer.ts";
A variable-sized buffer of bytes with read()
and write()
methods.
Buffer is almost always used with some I/O like files and sockets. It allows one to buffer up a download from a socket. Buffer grows and shrinks as necessary.
Buffer is NOT the same thing as Node's Buffer. Node's Buffer was created in 2009 before JavaScript had the concept of ArrayBuffers. It's simply a non-standard ArrayBuffer.
ArrayBuffer is a fixed memory allocation. Buffer is implemented on top of ArrayBuffer.
Based on Go Buffer.
Methods
Returns a slice holding the unread portion of the buffer.
The slice is valid for use only until the next buffer modification (that
is, only until the next call to a method like read()
, write()
,
reset()
, or truncate()
). If options.copy
is false the slice aliases
the buffer content at least until the next buffer modification, so
immediate changes to the slice will affect the result of future reads.
Returns whether the unread portion of the buffer is empty.
Grows the buffer's capacity, if necessary, to guarantee space for
another n
bytes. After .grow(n)
, at least n
bytes can be written to
the buffer without another allocation. If n
is negative, .grow()
will
throw. If the buffer can't grow it will throw an error.
Based on Go Lang's Buffer.Grow.
Discards all but the first n
unread bytes from the buffer but
continues to use the same allocated storage. It throws if n
is
negative or greater than the length of the buffer.