taskcluster-logstream

Taskcluster uses azure (over http) to store all of our logging data... Generally this process uses standard http conventions + polling but we also needed some way to indicate when the stream ends.

The readable stream interface provided does something like this:

• issue a request to the given url (use range if offset is available and if-none-match conditionals if etag is available)
  • a. if its not in the 200 range retry in N ms
  • b. if its in the 200 range continue
  • c. if the request contains the 'x-ms-meta-complete' header mark stream as complete (end event).
• record the byte offset
• record the etag
• emit data from server in the readable stream (data event)
• repeat these steps in N ms.

Usage

var Reader = require('taskcluster-logstream');

var stream = new Reader('myazureurl.txt');
stream.pipe(process.stdout);