I'm trying to work with Web Serial API. I want to write bytes to device and read bytes response from it.
I can write bytes as well as string to device - here everything working as expected.
I can read bytes and string from device - here I have problems.
Examples are showing that you can create a while(true)
loop and the stream will return { value, done }
flags. But I didn't find what actually done
flag means. When I'm connecting to device and start this loop, it never ends.
while (this.port.readable) {
try {
while (true) {
const { value, done } = await this.reader.read();
if (value) {
getChunk(value);
}
if (done) {
break;
}
}
} catch (error) {
console.error("Serial port reading error: " + error);
} finally {
this.reader.releaseLock();
}
}
I did find some suggestions with pipeTo
function but it only operates in examples on string responses, in addition it don't work in my case:
const textEncoder = new TextEncoderStream();
const writableStreamClosed = textEncoder.readable.pipeTo(this.port.writable);
const writer = textEncoder.writable.getWriter();
await writer.write("help");
Uncaught (in promise) TypeError: Failed to execute 'pipeTo' on 'ReadableStream': Cannot pipe to a locked stream
So to sum up. How can I write bytes to device via serial API and receive back response from it.
Thanks in advance.
Ok, I did write my own function that reads given number of bytes. Maybe this will help someone.
public async readBytes(numberOfBytes: number): Promise<Uint8Array> {
let bytes: Uint8Array = new Uint8Array(numberOfBytes);
let readBytes: number = 0;
let finished: boolean = false;
try {
while (true) {
const { value, done } = await this.reader.read();
if (value) {
let chunk: Uint8Array = value;
if (readBytes === 0 && chunk[0] === SerialService.FAIL) {
return bytes;
}
for (let i = 0; i < chunk.length; i++) {
bytes[i] = chunk[i];
readBytes++;
if (readBytes >= numberOfBytes) {
finished = true;
}
}
}
if (done || finished) {
break;
}
}
} catch (error) {
console.error("Serial port reading error: " + error);
}
return bytes;
}