Closing Http response stream in NodeJS before it e

Question

I am using requests module in nodejs to make a request and I am streaming response I got. This response stream is piped to csv parser and populating records onto an array. Once I get a preset count of records, I want to end csv parsing and close the response stream. How do I properly cleanup response stream. Here is the pseudo code

var stream = request.get(url);
stream.pipe(csvParser);
var count = 15;
csvParser.on("readable",function(){
    while(record = csvParser.read()){
        if(records.length<count){
            records.push(record);
        } else {
            csvParser.end();
            //stream.close();
            //stream.unpipe();
            // stream.destroy();
        }
    }
});

csvParser.on("error",function(err){
    console.log("Error",err.message);
})

csvParser.on("finish",function(){
    //console.log("records",records);
    console.log("done");
})  

when I try stream.close() , it's saying undefined method. What's the correct way of cleaning it up..?

Answer 1

There is no close method for readable stream. close method is old hack to close only fs read stream (I do not know if it's still working)

Also there is no method destroy in readable stream.

I'm afraid there is no method to end stream before it ends.

You can stop reading from stream. In your case stream work in flowing mode, therefore this method csvParser.read() when is called, is requests for next parts of data. If you stop calling csvParser.read() then this event csvParser.on("readable",function(){ stopped to fire.

There is some good conversation https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/nodejs/eGukJUQrOBY/URD8I7tNxRUJ about similar case.