Async brotli decompress-compress

[Mrgaton]

What is the problem this feature will solve?

I dont want to use util promisfy for using brotli as async

What is the feature you are proposing to solve the problem?

zlib.brotliCompressAsync

What alternatives have you considered?

No response

[RedYetiDev]

Just curious, but what's wrong with the util.promisify way?

[Mrgaton]

i just ugly having to declare each function separatly and having to import another lib to the code

[Mrgaton]

im referring to brotli but it would also be good for gzip, deflate, etc.

[marco-ippolito]

like for fs and timers, ideally, you should be able to require zlib/promises.
However it has not been implemented yet and zlib doesnt have promise based apis

[Mrgaton]

Yes but why are they not inside zlib? Its just confusing

[Mrgaton]

also i get an error

[marco-ippolito]

also i get an error

For other api like fs we ship the promise based version in fs/promises.
In case of zlib this has not been done, if someone is interested in implementing it I wouldnt object

[RedYetiDev]

Should I add "help wanted" for someone to take on the issue?

(ping) @nodejs/zlib in case they are already on the case

[Mrgaton]

so this feature will actualy will be shiped to node?

[Mrgaton]

Member

but why dont just make their async function inside zlib 🙄

[RedYetiDev]

so this feature will actualy will be shiped to node?

It's possible, but someone would have to implement it, so that takes time and energy.

[Mrgaton]

Could you do it for me

[RedYetiDev]

I'm not an expert on ZLIB (or even a novice), but someone will likely implement it eventually. However, it will take time, so I wouldn't expect it anytime soon.