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docs: improve Writable/Transform stream docs

Slightly fix and supplement the documentation for Writable#write and
Transform#transform methods. Make it more consistent. Mention passing
'buffer' as an encoding param in case chunk is a Buffer.

PR: https://github.com/iojs/io.js/pull/142
Reviewed-by: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Rod Vagg <rod@vagg.org>
v1.8.0-commit
Vladimir Guguiev 10 years ago
committed by Bert Belder
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doc/api/stream.markdown

@ -1038,12 +1038,11 @@ initialized.
#### writable.\_write(chunk, encoding, callback)
* `chunk` {Buffer | String} The chunk to be written. Will always
* `chunk` {Buffer | String} The chunk to be written. Will **always**
be a buffer unless the `decodeStrings` option was set to `false`.
* `encoding` {String} If the chunk is a string, then this is the
encoding type. Ignore if chunk is a buffer. Note that chunk will
**always** be a buffer unless the `decodeStrings` option is
explicitly set to `false`.
encoding type. If chunk is a buffer, then this is the special
value - 'buffer', ignore it in this case.
* `callback` {Function} Call this function (optionally with an error
argument) when you are done processing the supplied chunk.
@ -1150,10 +1149,11 @@ initialized.
#### transform.\_transform(chunk, encoding, callback)
* `chunk` {Buffer | String} The chunk to be transformed. Will always
* `chunk` {Buffer | String} The chunk to be transformed. Will **always**
be a buffer unless the `decodeStrings` option was set to `false`.
* `encoding` {String} If the chunk is a string, then this is the
encoding type. (Ignore if `decodeStrings` chunk is a buffer.)
encoding type. If chunk is a buffer, then this is the special
value - 'buffer', ignore it in this case.
* `callback` {Function} Call this function (optionally with an error
argument and data) when you are done processing the supplied chunk.

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