securityos/node_modules/sync-channel/README.md

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# SyncChannel
A SyncChannel is a readable/writable communication channel.
Communication is synchronous, i.e. the callback of a write gets called only when it's value has been read.
Reading/writing from/to a SyncChannel can be aborted by calling the abort function returned by
the read/write methods.
## Installation
```
$ npm install sync-channel
```
# Examples
## read/write
``` js
var SyncChannel = require('sync-channel');
var channel = new SyncChannel();
channel.read(function(value) {
console.log('value read', value);
});
channel.write(123, function() {
console.log('value written');
});
```
## Aborting a read/write operation
``` js
var SyncChannel = require('sync-channel');
var channel = new SyncChannel();
var abortRead = channel.read(function(value) {
console.log('value read', value);
});
setTimeout(function() {
abortRead();
console.log('you are so slow!');
}, 500);
setTimeout(function() {
channel.write(123, function() {
console.log('value written');
});
}, 1000);
```
## tryRead
``` js
var SyncChannel = require('sync-channel');
var channel = new SyncChannel();
var result = channel.tryRead();
if(result !== null) {
console.log('value read', result.value);
} else {
console.log('no writers');
}
```
## tryWrite
``` js
var SyncChannel = require('sync-channel');
var channel = new SyncChannel();
var result = channel.tryWrite(123);
if(result === true) {
console.log('value written');
} else {
console.log('no readers');
}
```