From 309cdbdd7ce2a2ee833bb48c86604fae968c093d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Simon Prickett <simon@redislabs.com>
Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2022 16:57:03 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Add stream examples. (#1830)

* Adds stream consumer and producer scripts to doc.

* Updated build command example.

* Adds stream producer example.

* Adds basic stream consumer example.

* Added isolated execution.

* Update README.md

* Update stream-consumer.js

Co-authored-by: Leibale Eidelman <leibale1998@gmail.com>
---
 examples/README.md          |  4 ++-
 examples/stream-consumer.js | 65 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 examples/stream-producer.js | 28 ++++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 96 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 examples/stream-consumer.js
 create mode 100644 examples/stream-producer.js

diff --git a/examples/README.md b/examples/README.md
index 94b043ae48..a9c0869901 100644
--- a/examples/README.md
+++ b/examples/README.md
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ This folder contains example scripts showing how to use Node Redis in different
 | `search-hashes.js`          | Uses [RediSearch](https://redisearch.io) to index and search data in hashes                                    |
 | `search-json.js`            | Uses [RediSearch](https://redisearch.io/) and [RedisJSON](https://redisjson.io/) to index and search JSON data |
 | `set-scan.js`               | An example script that shows how to use the SSCAN iterator functionality                                       |
+| `stream-producer.js`        | Adds entries to a [Redis Stream](https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro) using the `XADD` command               |
+| `stream-consumer.js`        | Reads entries from a [Redis Stream](https://redis.io/topics/streams-intro) using the blocking `XREAD` command  |
 
 ## Contributing
 
@@ -24,7 +26,7 @@ To set up the examples folder so that you can run an example / develop one of yo
 ```
 $ git clone https://github.com/redis/node-redis.git
 $ cd node-redis
-$ npm install -ws && npm run build
+$ npm install -ws && npm run build-all
 $ cd examples
 $ npm install
 ```
diff --git a/examples/stream-consumer.js b/examples/stream-consumer.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4e0f140c0d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/stream-consumer.js
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+// A sample stream consumer using the blocking variant of XREAD.
+// This consumes entries from a stream created by stream-producer.js
+
+import { createClient, commandOptions } from 'redis';
+
+async function streamConsumer() {
+  const client = createClient();
+
+  await client.connect();
+
+  let currentId = '0-0'; // Start at lowest possible stream ID
+
+  while (true) {
+    try {
+      let response = await client.xRead(
+        commandOptions({
+          isolated: true
+        }), [
+          // XREAD can read from multiple streams, starting at a 
+          // different ID for each...
+          {
+            key: 'mystream',
+            id: currentId
+          }
+        ], {
+          // Read 1 entry at a time, block for 5 seconds if there are none.
+          COUNT: 1,
+          BLOCK: 5000
+        }
+      );
+
+      if (response) {
+        // Response is an array of streams, each containing an array of
+        // entries:
+        // [
+        //   { 
+        //     "name": "mystream",
+        //     "messages": [
+        //       {
+        //         "id": "1642088708425-0",
+        //         "message": {
+        //           "num": "999"
+        //         }
+        //       }
+        //     ]
+        //   }
+        // ]
+        console.log(JSON.stringify(response));
+
+        // Get the ID of the first (only) entry returned.
+        currentId = response[0].messages[0].id;
+        console.log(currentId);  
+      } else {
+        // Response is null, we have read everything that is 
+        // in the stream right now...
+        console.log('No new stream entries.');
+      }
+    }
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(err);
+  }
+}
+
+streamConsumer();
+
diff --git a/examples/stream-producer.js b/examples/stream-producer.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..3f7a4a963c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/examples/stream-producer.js
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+// A sample stream producer using XADD.
+
+import { createClient } from 'redis';
+
+async function streamProducer() {
+  const client = createClient();
+
+  await client.connect();
+  await client.del('mystream');
+
+  let num = 0;
+
+  while (num < 1000) {
+    // * = Let Redis generate a timestamp ID for this new entry.
+    let id = await client.xAdd('mystream', '*', {
+      num: `${num}`
+      // Other name/value pairs can go here as required...
+    });
+
+    console.log(`Added ${id} to the stream.`);
+    num += 1;
+  }
+
+  await client.quit();
+}
+
+streamProducer();
+