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.
CountQueuingStrategy()Creates a new CountQueuingStrategy object instance.
CountQueuingStrategy.highWaterMark Read only
The total number of chunks that can be contained in the internal queue before backpressure is applied.
CountQueuingStrategy.size()Always returns 1.
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();
| Specification |
|---|
| Streams> # cqs-class> |
| 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 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/CountQueuingStrategy