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Description
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===========
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A very fast streaming multipart parser for node.js.
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Benchmarks can be found [here](https://github.com/mscdex/dicer/wiki/Benchmarks).
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Requirements
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* [node.js](http://nodejs.org/) -- v0.8.0 or newer
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Install
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npm install dicer
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Examples
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========
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* Parse an HTTP form upload
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```javascript
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var inspect = require('util').inspect,
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http = require('http');
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var Dicer = require('dicer');
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// quick and dirty way to parse multipart boundary
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var RE_BOUNDARY = /^multipart\/.+?(?:; boundary=(?:(?:"(.+)")|(?:([^\s]+))))$/i,
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HTML = new Buffer('<html><head></head><body>\
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<form method="POST" enctype="multipart/form-data">\
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<input type="text" name="textfield"><br />\
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<input type="file" name="filefield"><br />\
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<input type="submit">\
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</form>\
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</body></html>'),
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PORT = 8080;
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http.createServer(function(req, res) {
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var m;
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if (req.method === 'POST'
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&& req.headers['content-type']
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&& (m = RE_BOUNDARY.exec(req.headers['content-type']))) {
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var d = new Dicer({ boundary: m[1] || m[2] });
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d.on('part', function(p) {
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console.log('New part!');
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p.on('header', function(header) {
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for (var h in header) {
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console.log('Part header: k: ' + inspect(h)
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+ ', v: ' + inspect(header[h]));
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}
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});
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p.on('data', function(data) {
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console.log('Part data: ' + inspect(data.toString()));
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});
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p.on('end', function() {
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console.log('End of part\n');
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});
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});
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d.on('finish', function() {
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console.log('End of parts');
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res.writeHead(200);
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res.end('Form submission successful!');
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});
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req.pipe(d);
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} else if (req.method === 'GET' && req.url === '/') {
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res.writeHead(200);
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res.end(HTML);
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} else {
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res.writeHead(404);
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res.end();
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}
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}).listen(PORT, function() {
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console.log('Listening for requests on port ' + PORT);
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});
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```
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API
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===
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_Dicer_ is a _WritableStream_
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Dicer (special) events
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* **finish**() - Emitted when all parts have been parsed and the Dicer instance has been ended.
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* **part**(< _PartStream_ >stream) - Emitted when a new part has been found.
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* **preamble**(< _PartStream_ >stream) - Emitted for preamble if you should happen to need it (can usually be ignored).
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* **trailer**(< _Buffer_ >data) - Emitted when trailing data was found after the terminating boundary (as with the preamble, this can usually be ignored too).
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Dicer methods
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* **(constructor)**(< _object_ >config) - Creates and returns a new Dicer instance with the following valid `config` settings:
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* **boundary** - _string_ - This is the boundary used to detect the beginning of a new part.
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* **headerFirst** - _boolean_ - If true, preamble header parsing will be performed first.
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* **maxHeaderPairs** - _integer_ - The maximum number of header key=>value pairs to parse **Default:** 2000 (same as node's http).
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* **setBoundary**(< _string_ >boundary) - _(void)_ - Sets the boundary to use for parsing and performs some initialization needed for parsing. You should only need to use this if you set `headerFirst` to true in the constructor and are parsing the boundary from the preamble header.
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_PartStream_ is a _ReadableStream_
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PartStream (special) events
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* **header**(< _object_ >header) - An object containing the header for this particular part. Each property value is an _array_ of one or more string values.
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