jimmywarting / to-data-view

Create a `DataView` over an `ArrayBuffer` or a `Buffer`

To DataView

Create a DataView over an ArrayBuffer/8-bit typed array (commonly used in the browsers) or a Buffer (commonly used in Node.js).

Supported inputs:

• ArrayBuffer
• Buffer
• Int8Array
• Uint8Array
• Uint8ClampedArray

Installation

npm install --save to-data-view

Usage

import toDataView from 'to-data-view'

// This function will accept both `ArrayBuffer` and `Buffer` as input
function awesomeParser (source) {
  const view = toDataView(source)

  // ...
}

API

toDataView(data)

• data (ArrayBuffer | Int8Array | Uint8Array | Uint8ClampedArray, required)
• returns DataView

Return a DataView instance that uses the same memory as the provided ArrayBuffer, 8-bit typed array or Buffer.