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CountQueuingStrategy

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨January 2019⁩.

Note: This feature is available in Web Workers.

The CountQueuingStrategy interface of the Streams API provides a built-in chunk counting queuing strategy that can be used when constructing streams.

Constructor

CountQueuingStrategy()

Creates a new CountQueuingStrategy object instance.

Instance properties

CountQueuingStrategy.highWaterMark Read only

The total number of chunks that can be contained in the internal queue before backpressure is applied.

Instance methods

CountQueuingStrategy.size()

Always returns 1.

Examples

const queueingStrategy = new CountQueuingStrategy({ highWaterMark: 1 });

const writableStream = new WritableStream(
  {
    // Implement the sink
    write(chunk) {
      // …
    },
    close() {
      // …
    },
    abort(err) {
      console.log("Sink error:", err);
    },
  },
  queueingStrategy,
);

const size = queueingStrategy.size();

Specifications

Specification
Streams>
# cqs-class>

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
CountQueuingStrategy 52 16 65 39 10.1 52 65 41 10.3 6.0 52 10.3
CountQueuingStrategy 52 16 65 39 10.1 52 65 41 10.3 6.0 52 10.3
highWaterMark 52 16 65 39 10.1 52 65 41 10.3 6.0 52 10.3
size 52 16 65 39 10.1 52 65 41 10.3 6.0 52 10.3

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CountQueuingStrategy