JarCastingcodecs
Create an binary encoder/decoder for Node's build in types like, json, utf-8, hex.
npm install codecs
Useful to support value encodings similar to leveldb's.
Usage
var codecs = require('codecs')
var json = codecs('json')
console.log(json.encode({hello: 'world'})) // new Buffer('{"hello":"world"}')
console.log(json.decode(new Buffer('{"hello":"world"}'))) // {hello: 'world'}
API
var codec = codecs(type)
Create a new codec.
Supported types are
- utf8
- json
- ndjson
- binary
- hex
- ascii
- base64
- ucs2
- ucs-2
- utf16le
- utf-16le
- binary
If an unknown type is passed in binary is used. If you want to use a custom codec you can pass in an object containing a an encode and decode method and that will be returned.
var buf = codec.encode(value)
Encode a value to a buffer.
var value = codec.decode(buf)
Decode a buffer to a value.
License
MIT