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# osc-min

_simple utilities for open sound control in node.js_

This package provides some node.js utilities for working with 
[OSC](http://opensoundcontrol.org/), a format for sound and systems control.  
Here we implement the [OSC 1.1][spec11] specification.  OSC is a transport-independent
protocol, so we don't provide any server objects, as you should be able to 
use OSC over any transport you like.  The most common is probably udp, but tcp
is not unheard of.

[spec11]: http://opensoundcontrol.org/spec-1_1

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## Installation
 
The easiest way to get osc-min is through [NPM](http://npmjs.org).
After install npm, you can install osc-min in the current directory with
 
```
npm install osc-min
```
 
If you'd rather get osc-min through github (for example, if you're forking
it), you still need npm to install dependencies, which you can do with
 
```
npm install --dev
```
 
Once you've got all the dependencies you should be able to run the unit
tests with 
 
```
npm test
npm run-script coverage
```

### For the browser
If you want to use this library in a browser, you can build a browserified file (`build/osc-min.js`) with

```
npm install --dev
npm run-script browserify
```

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## Examples
### A simple OSC printer;
```javascript

sock = udp.createSocket("udp4", function(msg, rinfo) {
  var error, error1;
  try {
    return console.log(osc.fromBuffer(msg));
  } catch (error1) {
    error = error1;
    return console.log("invalid OSC packet");
  }
});

sock.bind(inport);

```
### Send a bunch of args every two seconds;
```javascript

sendHeartbeat = function() {
  var buf;
  buf = osc.toBuffer({
    address: "/heartbeat",
    args: [
      12, "sttttring", new Buffer("beat"), {
        type: "integer",
        value: 7
      }
    ]
  });
  return udp.send(buf, 0, buf.length, outport, "localhost");
};

setInterval(sendHeartbeat, 2000);

```
### A simple OSC redirecter;
```javascript

sock = udp.createSocket("udp4", function(msg, rinfo) {
  var error, error1, redirected;
  try {
    redirected = osc.applyAddressTransform(msg, function(address) {
      return "/redirect" + address;
    });
    return sock.send(redirected, 0, redirected.length, outport, "localhost");
  } catch (error1) {
    error = error1;
    return console.log("error redirecting: " + error);
  }
});

sock.bind(inport);

```


more examples are available in the `examples/` directory.

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## Exported functions

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### .fromBuffer(buffer, [strict])
takes a node.js Buffer of a complete _OSC Packet_ and 
outputs the javascript representation, or throws if the buffer is ill-formed.

`strict` is an optional parameter that makes the function fail more often.

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### .toBuffer(object, [strict])
takes a _OSC packet_ javascript representation as defined below and returns
a node.js Buffer, or throws if the representation is ill-formed.

See "JavaScript representations of the OSC types" below.

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### .toBuffer(address, args[], [strict])
alternative syntax for above.  Assumes this is an _OSC Message_ as defined below,
and `args` is an array of _OSC Arguments_ or single _OSC Argument_

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### .applyAddressTransform(buffer, transform)
takes a callback that takes a string and outputs a string,
and applies that to the address of the message encoded in the buffer,
and outputs an encoded buffer.

If the buffer encodes an _OSC Bundle_, this applies the function to each address 
in the bundle.

There's two subtle reasons you'd want to use this function rather than 
composing `fromBuffer` and `toBuffer`:
  - Future-proofing - if the OSC message uses an argument typecode that
    we don't understand, calling `fromBuffer` will throw.  The only time
    when `applyAddressTranform` might fail is if the address is malformed.
  - Accuracy - javascript represents numbers as 64-bit floats, so some
    OSC types will not be able to be represented accurately.  If accuracy
    is important to you, then, you should never convert the OSC message to a
    javascript representation.

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### .applyMessageTransform(buffer, transform)
takes a function that takes and returns a javascript _OSC Message_ representation,
and applies that to each message encoded in the buffer,
and outputs a new buffer with the new address.

If the buffer encodes an osc-bundle, this applies the function to each message 
in the bundle.

See notes above for applyAddressTransform for why you might want to use this.
While this does parse and re-pack the messages, the bundle timetags are left
in their accurate and prestine state.

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### .timetagToDate(ntpTimeTag)
Convert a timetag array to a JavaScript Date object in your local timezone.

Received OSC bundles converted with `fromBuffer` will have a timetag array:
[secondsSince1970, fractionalSeconds]
This utility is useful for logging. Accuracy is reduced to milliseconds.

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### .dateToTimetag(date)
Convert a JavaScript Date to a NTP timetag array [secondsSince1970, fractionalSeconds].

`toBuffer` already accepts Dates for timetags so you might not need this function. If you need to schedule bundles with finer than millisecond accuracy then you could use this to help assemble the NTP array.

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### .timetagToTimestamp(timeTag)
Convert a timetag array to the number of seconds since the UNIX epoch.


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### .timestampToTimetag(timeStamp)
Convert a number of seconds since the UNIX epoch to a timetag array.


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## Javascript representations of the OSC types.  
See the [spec][spec] for more information on the OSC types.

+ An _OSC Packet_ is an _OSC Message_ or an _OSC Bundle_.

+ An _OSC Message_:

          {
              oscType : "message"
              address : "/address/pattern/might/have/wildcards"
              args : [arg1,arg2]
          }

   Where args is an array of _OSC Arguments_.  `oscType` is optional.
   `args` can be a single element.

+ An _OSC Argument_ is represented as a javascript object with the following layout:

          {
              type : "string"
              value : "value"
          }

   Where the `type` is one of the following:
   + `string` - string value
   + `float` - numeric value
   + `integer` - numeric value
   + `blob` - node.js Buffer value
   + `true` - value is boolean true
   + `false` - value is boolean false
   + `null` - no value
   + `bang` - no value (this is the `I` type tag)
   + `timetag` - numeric value
   + `array` - array of _OSC Arguments_

   Note that `type` is always a string - i.e. `"true"` rather than `true`.
  
   The following non-standard types are also supported:
   + `double` - numeric value (encodes to a float64 value)

   
   For messages sent to the `toBuffer` function, `type` is optional.
   If the argument is not an object, it will be interpreted as either
   `string`, `float`, `array` or `blob`, depending on its javascript type
   (String, Number, Array, Buffer, respectively)

+ An _OSC Bundle_ is represented as a javascript object with the following fields:

          {
              oscType : "bundle"
              timetag : 7
              elements : [element1, element]
          }

  `oscType` "bundle"

  `timetag` is one of:
   - `null` - meaning now, the current time.
     By the time the bundle is received it will too late and depending
     on the receiver may be discarded or you may be scolded for being late.
   - `number` - relative seconds from now with millisecond accuracy.
   - `Date` - a JavaScript Date object in your local time zone.
    OSC timetags use UTC timezone, so do not try to adjust for timezones,
    this is not needed.
   - `Array` - `[numberOfSecondsSince1900, fractionalSeconds]`
     Both values are `number`s. This gives full timing accuracy of 1/(2^32) seconds.

 `elements` is an `Array` of either _OSC Message_ or _OSC Bundle_


[spec]: http://opensoundcontrol.org/spec-1_0

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## License
Licensed under the terms found in COPYING (zlib license)