Make it possible to decode streams of messages

tarruda commented 11 years ago

Exported the 'Decoder' class.
Added 'bytesRemaining' property to decoder class.
Added a wrapper method for 'Decoder.parse' in order to keep the 'bytesRemaining' from updating on parse failure.

creationix commented 7 years ago

Looks neat, do you still want this merged? Not sure how I missed this PR.

tarruda commented 7 years ago

Feel free to merge it, but the msgpack spec has evolved and now has a way to distinguish between byte and text strings, so I wouldn't use this library. https://github.com/mcollina/msgpack5 implements the latest version.

In any case, there's a way to design a msgpack parser that is fully reentrant without backtracking(rolling back to previous parse position in case of missing data). This is one of the reasons I have created https://github.com/tarruda/libmpack, but didn't get the time to put together a node.js binding yet.

creationix / msgpack-js

Make it possible to decode streams of messages #4