I am having some issue with write files in Deno

The resulting files are damanged

The code is very simple, it's just reads from a file and writes to another:

  let bytesRead: number | null = -1;
  while(bytesRead !== null){
    const buf = new Uint8Array(5 * 1_000_000);
    bytesRead = await infh.read(buf)
    if(bytesRead !== null){
      await outfh.write(buf);
    }
  }

I am having some issue with write files in Deno

The resulting files are damanged

The code is very simple, it's just reads from a file and writes to another:

  let bytesRead: number | null = -1;
  while(bytesRead !== null){
    const buf = new Uint8Array(5 * 1_000_000);
    bytesRead = await infh.read(buf)
    if(bytesRead !== null){
      await outfh.write(buf);
    }
  }

• javascript
• deno

Share Improve this question Follow asked Mar 3 at 17:24 AlexAlex 66.2k185185 gold badges460460 silver badges651651 bronze badges 2

• in what way are the resulting files "damaged"? assuming infh.read(buf) is this you may want to read what is returned by that method (I assume Deno returns the same result - can't be bothered reading Deno documentation) – Bravo Commented Mar 3 at 20:53
• deno does not return the buf, it only returns the number of bytes read. For some reason the resulting file is larger than the input file.. – Alex Commented Mar 4 at 10:44

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The Deno docs make it clear — for both the read and write methods on an instance of Deno.FsFile:

It is not guaranteed that the full buffer will be read/written in a single call.

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The idiomatic approach for copying data from one instance to another is to pipe the ReadableStream of the input file to the WritableStream of the output file:

// declare let sourceFile: Deno.FsFile;
// declare let destinationFile: Deno.FsFile;

await sourceFile.readable.pipeTo(destinationFile.writable);