- From: Domenic Denicola <notifications@github.com>
- Date: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:17:19 -0700
- To: whatwg/streams <streams@noreply.github.com>
Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2015 22:17:45 UTC
Writable streams need a similar way of being locked for exclusive writing, as readable streams do with their readers. This is notably crucial for off-main-thread piping (#97). One problem that immediately presents itself, looking at the current list of writable stream properties and methods (closed/ready/state/abort()/close()/write()), is that pretty much all of them belong on the writer. Does that mean writable streams themselves become empty objects with getWriter() methods!? I guess we could add a few pass-throughs (like ReadableStream.prototype.cancel acquiring, then releasing, a reader). Do we just add pass-through for everything? Well, probably not for ready/state/closed at least, as that causes problems. But if all we have is abort()/close()/write() passthroughs, doesn't that encourage the bad practice of ignoring backpressure signals? Maybe just abort() and write()? --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/whatwg/streams/issues/319
Received on Tuesday, 7 April 2015 22:17:45 UTC