fs.ReadStream should emit Buffers

And do proper utf8 encoding.

lib/fs.js

@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
-var sys = require('sys'),
+var sys = require('sys');
-    events = require('events'),
+var events = require('events');
-    Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer;
+var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer;
 
 var binding = process.binding('fs');
 var fs = exports;
 
+var kMinPoolSpace = 128;
+var kPoolSize = 40*1024;
+
 fs.Stats = binding.Stats;
 
 fs.Stats.prototype._checkModeProperty = function (property) {
@@ -565,8 +568,16 @@ fs.realpath = function (path, callback) {
     }
   }
   next();
+};
+
+var pool;
+function allocNewPool () {
+  pool = new Buffer(kPoolSize);
+  pool.used = 0;
 }
 
+
+
 fs.createReadStream = function(path, options) {
   return new ReadStream(path, options);
 };
@@ -580,7 +591,6 @@ var ReadStream = fs.ReadStream = function(path, options) {
   this.paused = false;
 
   this.flags = 'r';
-  this.encoding = 'binary';
   this.mode = 0666;
   this.bufferSize = 4 * 1024;
 
@@ -614,19 +624,40 @@ sys.inherits(ReadStream, events.EventEmitter);
 
 fs.FileReadStream = fs.ReadStream; // support the legacy name
 
-ReadStream.prototype.setEncoding = function(encoding) {
+ReadStream.prototype.setEncoding = function (encoding) {
-  this.encoding = encoding;
+  var Utf8Decoder = require("utf8decoder").Utf8Decoder; // lazy load
+  var self = this;
+  this._encoding = enc.toLowerCase();
+  if (this._encoding == 'utf-8' || this._encoding == 'utf8') {
+    this._decoder = new Utf8Decoder();
+    this._decoder.onString = function(str) {
+      self.emit('data', str);
+    };
+  } else if (this._decoder) {
+    delete this._decoder;
+  }
 };
 
+
 ReadStream.prototype._read = function () {
   var self = this;
   if (!self.readable || self.paused) return;
 
-  fs.read(self.fd,
+  if (!pool || pool.length - pool.used < kMinPoolSpace) {
-          self.bufferSize,
+    // discard the old pool. Can't add to the free list because
-          undefined,
+    // users might have refernces to slices on it.
-          self.encoding,
+    pool = null;
-          function(err, data, bytesRead) {
+    allocNewPool();
+  }
+
+  // Grab another reference to the pool in the case that while we're in the
+  // thread pool another read() finishes up the pool, and allocates a new
+  // one.
+  var thisPool = pool;
+  var toRead = Math.min(pool.length - pool.used, this.bufferSize);
+  var start = pool.used;
+
+  function afterRead (err, bytesRead) {
     if (err) {
       self.emit('error', err);
       self.readable = false;
@@ -639,20 +670,39 @@ ReadStream.prototype._read = function () {
       return;
     }
 
+    var b = thisPool.slice(start, start+bytesRead);
+
+    // Possible optimizition here?
+    // Reclaim some bytes if bytesRead < toRead?
+    // Would need to ensure that pool === thisPool.
+
     // do not emit events if the stream is paused
     if (self.paused) {
-      self.buffer = data;
+      self.buffer = b;
       return;
     }
 
     // do not emit events anymore after we declared the stream unreadable
-    if (!self.readable) {
+    if (!self.readable) return;
-      return;
-    }
 
-    self.emit('data', data);
+    self._emitData(b);
     self._read();
-  });
+  }
+
+  fs.read(self.fd, pool, pool.used, toRead, undefined, afterRead);
+  pool.used += toRead;
+};
+
+
+ReadStream.prototype._emitData = function (d) {
+  if (!this._encoding) {
+    this.emit('data', d);
+  } else if (this._decoder) {
+    this._decoder.write(d);
+  } else {
+    var string = d.toString(this._encoding, 0, d.length);
+    this.emit('data', string);
+  }
 };
 
 
@@ -664,7 +714,7 @@ ReadStream.prototype.forceClose = function (cb) {
     sys.error(readStreamForceCloseWarning);
   }
   return this.destroy(cb);
-}
+};
 
 
 ReadStream.prototype.destroy = function (cb) {
@@ -674,16 +724,12 @@ ReadStream.prototype.destroy = function (cb) {
   function close() {
     fs.close(self.fd, function(err) {
       if (err) {
-        if (cb) {
+        if (cb) cb(err);
-          cb(err);
-        }
         self.emit('error', err);
         return;
       }
 
-      if (cb) {
+      if (cb) cb(null);
-        cb(null);
-      }
       self.emit('close');
     });
   }
@@ -705,7 +751,7 @@ ReadStream.prototype.resume = function() {
   this.paused = false;
 
   if (this.buffer) {
-    this.emit('data', this.buffer);
+    this._emitData(this.buffer);
     this.buffer = null;
   }
 
@@ -858,7 +904,7 @@ WriteStream.prototype.forceClose = function (cb) {
     sys.error(writeStreamForceCloseWarning);
   }
   return this.destroy(cb);
-}
+};
 
 
 WriteStream.prototype.forceClose = function (cb) {

test/simple/test-file-read-stream.js

@@ -1,32 +1,41 @@
 require('../common');
 
-var
+// TODO Improved this test. test_ca.pem is too small. A proper test would
-  path = require('path'),
+// great a large utf8 (with multibyte chars) file and stream it in,
-  fs = require('fs'),
+// performing sanity checks throughout.
-  fn = path.join(fixturesDir, 'test_ca.pem'),
-  file = fs.createReadStream(fn),
 
-  callbacks = {
+Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer;
+path = require('path');
+fs = require('fs');
+fn = path.join(fixturesDir, 'test_ca.pem');
+
+file = fs.createReadStream(fn);
+
+callbacks = {
   open: -1,
   end: -1,
+  data: -1,
   close: -1,
   destroy: -1
-  },
+};
 
-  paused = false,
+paused = false;
 
-  fileContent = '';
+fileContent = '';
 
-file
+file.addListener('open', function(fd) {
-  .addListener('open', function(fd) {
   callbacks.open++;
   assert.equal('number', typeof fd);
   assert.ok(file.readable);
-  })
+});
-  .addListener('error', function(err) {
+
+file.addListener('error', function(err) {
   throw err;
-  })
+});
-  .addListener('data', function(data) {
+
+file.addListener('data', function(data) {
+  callbacks.data++;
+  assert.ok(data instanceof Buffer);
   assert.ok(!paused);
   fileContent += data;
   
@@ -39,16 +48,18 @@ file
     file.resume();
     assert.ok(!file.paused);
   }, 10);
-  })
+});
-  .addListener('end', function(chunk) {
+
+file.addListener('end', function(chunk) {
   callbacks.end++;
-  })
+});
-  .addListener('close', function() {
+
+file.addListener('close', function() {
   callbacks.close++;
   assert.ok(!file.readable);
 
   assert.equal(fs.readFileSync(fn), fileContent);
-  });
+});
 
 var file2 = fs.createReadStream(fn);
 file2.destroy(function(err) {