How do i stream response in express

问题

I've been trying to get a express app to send the response as stream.

var Readable = require('stream').Readable;
var rs = Readable();


app.get('/report', function(req,res) {

    res.statusCode = 200;
    res.setHeader('Content-type', 'application/csv');
    res.setHeader('Access-Control-Allow-Origin', '*');

    // Header to force download
    res.setHeader('Content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=Report.csv');


    rs.pipe(res);

    rs.push("USERID,NAME,FBID,ACCOUNT,SUBSCRIPTION,PRICE,STATE,TIMEPERIOD\n");

    for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
        rs.push("23,John Doe,1234,500,SUBSCRIPITON,100,ACTIVE,30\n");
    }

    rs.push(null);
});

It does print in the console when i replace "rs.pipe(res)" by "rs.pipe(process.stdout)" but how to make it work in express app.

Error: not implemented
    at Readable._read (_stream_readable.js:465:22)
    at Readable.read (_stream_readable.js:341:10)
    at Readable.on (_stream_readable.js:720:14)
    at Readable.pipe (_stream_readable.js:575:10)
    at line "rs.pipe(res);"

回答1:

You don't need a readable stream instance, just use res.write():

res.write("USERID,NAME,FBID,ACCOUNT,SUBSCRIPTION,PRICE,STATE,TIMEPERIOD\n");

for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
    res.write("23,John Doe,1234,500,SUBSCRIPITON,100,ACTIVE,30\n");
}

res.end();

This works because in Express, res is based on Node's own http.serverResponse, so it inherits all its methods (like write).

回答2:

I was able to get this to work.

Put this code in your Express router.
Open a web browser
Go to http://yourdomain/yourrouterpath/stream

...

router.get('/stream', function (req, res, next) {
  //when using text/plain it did not stream
  //without charset=utf-8, it only worked in Chrome, not Firefox
  res.setHeader('Content-Type', 'text/html; charset=utf-8');
  res.setHeader('Transfer-Encoding', 'chunked');

  res.write("Thinking...");
  sendAndSleep(res, 1);
});


var sendAndSleep = function (response, counter) {
  if (counter > 10) {
    response.end();
  } else {
    response.write(" ;i=" + counter);
    counter++;
    setTimeout(function () {
      sendAndSleep(response, counter);
    }, 1000)
  };
};

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/38788721/how-do-i-stream-response-in-express

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javascript

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csv

express