TextEncoderStream and TextDecoderStream APIs

Text encoding and decoding will support streams to enable you to easily convert streams of binary data to text and vice-versa. An example of its usefulness is with readable streams. With a non-stream Response object, response.Body.text() returns text. There is no equivalent for the ReadableStream returned by Response.Body, which can only return bytes. With the new API a streaming response body may be converted to text as so: Response.Body.pipeThrough(new TextDecoderStream()).

Documentation

• https://github.com/ricea/encoding-streams/blob/master/stream-explainer.md

Specification

Working draft or equivalent

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>Network>StreamsAPI

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 71
• Chrome for Android release 71
• Android WebView release 71

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: Public support
• Edge: Public support
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: No signals

Owners

• ricea@chromium.org
• yhirano@chromium.org

Last updated on 2018-09-14