Web Streams API support?

[rybesh]

Are there any plans to implement Web Streams API support (rather than Node streams)?

[jeswr]

There are no plans at the moment.

What's your use case?

[rybesh]

The Fetch API returns a Response object, the body of which is a Streams API ReadableStream, not a Node ReadableStream. It would be nice to be able to pipe that stream to an N3.StreamParser, rather than fiddling with converting it to a Node stream first (since I'm bundling for the browser, not Node).

[jeswr]

Have you come across rdf-dereference? It uses N3 under the hood for parsing and also handles all of this stream fetching stuff https://www.npmjs.com/package/rdf-dereference.

It is built using Comunica so this is how it is going between Web and Node streams under the hood https://github.com/comunica/comunica/blob/b86d55278c455b56f9fd003254fd56616f9e7087/packages/actor-dereference-http/lib/ActorDereferenceHttpBase.ts#L106.

[rybesh]

Thanks, it looks like toNodeReadable has an example of what I needed. rdf-dereference looks useful as well.