petamoriken / node-amf

AMF0 and AMF3 fully supported in Node.js

node-amf

Introduction

This is an AMF library supporting AMF0 and AMF3. It's written to be as accurate as possible to AMF in Actionscript.

Installation

npm install node-amf

Test & Usage

You can find tests in /spec/ using tape.

A simple usage example:

const AMF0 = require("node-amf")
const amf = new AMF() // AMF3

amf.writeData({ id: 1 })
amf.readData() // { id: 1 }

amf.version = 0 // AMF0

amf.writeData({ id: 1 })
amf.readData() // { id: 1 }

Supported types

AMF0

Type	Write	Read	Reason for exclusion
Number	✔	✔	-
Boolean	✔	✔	-
String	✔	✔	-
Object	✔	✔	-
Null	✔	✔	-
Undefined	✔	✔	-
Reference	✔	✔	-
ECMA array	✔	✔	-
Strict array	✗	✔	AMF0 standards to ECMA array for writing
Date	✔	✔	-
Long string	✔	✔	-
XML document	✗	✗	Who needs XML?
Typed object	✔	✔	-

AMF3

Type	Write	Read	Reason for exclusion
Undefined	✔	✔	-
Null	✔	✔	-
Boolean	✔	✔	-
Integer	✔	✔	-
Double	✔	✔	-
String	✔	✔	-
XML document	✗	✗	Who needs XML?
Date	✔	✔	-
Array	✔	✔	-
Object	✔	✔	-
XML	✗	✗	Who needs XML?
ByteArray	✔	✔	-
Vector	✗	✗	No type in JS
Dictionary	✗	✗	No type in JS