How to use ES8 async/await with streams?

Question

In https://stackoverflow.com/a/18658613/779159 is an example of how to calculate the md5 of a file using the built-in crypto library and streams.

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Answer 1

If you are using node version >= v10.0.0 then you can use stream.pipeline and util.promisify.

const fs = require('fs');
const crypto = require('crypto');
const util = require('util');
const stream = require('stream');

const pipeline = util.promisify(stream.pipeline);

const hash = crypto.createHash('sha1');
hash.setEncoding('hex');

async function run() {
  await pipeline(
    fs.createReadStream('/some/file/name.txt'),
    hash
  );
  console.log('Pipeline succeeded');
}

run().catch(console.error);

Answer 2

Something like this works:

for (var res of fetchResponses){ //node-fetch package responses
    const dest = fs.createWriteStream(filePath,{flags:'a'});
    totalBytes += Number(res.headers.get('content-length'));
    await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
        res.body.pipe(dest);
        res.body.on("error", (err) => {
            reject(err);
        });
        dest.on("finish", function() {
            resolve();
        });
    });         
}

Answer 3

async/await only works with promises, not with streams. There are ideas to make an extra stream-like data type that would get its own syntax, but those are highly experimental if at all and I won't go into details.

Anyway, your callback is only waiting for the end of the stream, which is a perfect fit for a promise. You'd just have to wrap the stream:

var fd = fs.createReadStream('/some/file/name.txt');
var hash = crypto.createHash('sha1');
hash.setEncoding('hex');
// read all file and pipe it (write it) to the hash object
fd.pipe(hash);

var end = new Promise(function(resolve, reject) {
    hash.on('end', () => resolve(hash.read()));
    fd.on('error', reject); // or something like that. might need to close `hash`
});

Now you can await that promise:

(async function() {
    let sha1sum = await end;
    console.log(sha1sum);
}());