stream: add drop and take

This adds the `drop` and `take` methods to readable streams allowing
users easily drop and take items from the stream.

This continues the iterator-helper proposal alignment task.

Co-Authored-By: Robert Nagy <ronagy@icloud.com>
PR-URL: #41630
Reviewed-By: Robert Nagy <ronagy@icloud.com>
Reviewed-By: Matteo Collina <matteo.collina@gmail.com>

doc/api/stream.md

@@ -2021,6 +2021,50 @@ for await (const result of concatResult) {
 }
 ```
 
+### `readable.drop(limit[, options])`
+
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+> Stability: 1 - Experimental
+
+* `limit` {number} the number of chunks to drop from the readable.
+* `options` {Object}
+  * `signal` {AbortSignal} allows destroying the stream if the signal is
+    aborted.
+* Returns: {Readable} a stream with `limit` chunks dropped.
+
+This method returns a new stream with the first `limit` chunks dropped.
+
+```mjs
+import { Readable } from 'stream';
+
+await Readable.from([1, 2, 3, 4]).drop(2).toArray(); // [3, 4]
+```
+
+### `readable.take(limit[, options])`
+
+<!-- YAML
+added: REPLACEME
+-->
+
+> Stability: 1 - Experimental
+
+* `limit` {number} the number of chunks to take from the readable.
+* `options` {Object}
+  * `signal` {AbortSignal} allows destroying the stream if the signal is
+    aborted.
+* Returns: {Readable} a stream with `limit` chunks taken.
+
+This method returns a new stream with the first `limit` chunks.
+
+```mjs
+import { Readable } from 'stream';
+
+await Readable.from([1, 2, 3, 4]).take(2).toArray(); // [1, 2]
+```
+
 ### Duplex and transform streams
 
 #### Class: `stream.Duplex`

lib/internal/streams/operators.js

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ const { Buffer } = require('buffer');
 const {
   codes: {
     ERR_INVALID_ARG_TYPE,
+    ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE,
   },
   AbortError,
 } = require('internal/errors');
@@ -15,6 +16,8 @@ const { kWeakHandler } = require('internal/event_target');
 const {
   ArrayPrototypePush,
   MathFloor,
+  Number,
+  NumberIsNaN,
   Promise,
   PromiseReject,
   PromisePrototypeCatch,
@@ -236,10 +239,62 @@ async function* flatMap(fn, options) {
   }
 }
 
+function toIntegerOrInfinity(number) {
+  // We coerce here to align with the spec
+  // https://github.com/tc39/proposal-iterator-helpers/issues/169
+  number = Number(number);
+  if (NumberIsNaN(number)) {
+    return 0;
+  }
+  if (number < 0) {
+    throw new ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE('number', '>= 0', number);
+  }
+  return number;
+}
+
+function drop(number, options) {
+  number = toIntegerOrInfinity(number);
+  return async function* drop() {
+    if (options?.signal?.aborted) {
+      throw new AbortError();
+    }
+    for await (const val of this) {
+      if (options?.signal?.aborted) {
+        throw new AbortError();
+      }
+      if (number-- <= 0) {
+        yield val;
+      }
+    }
+  }.call(this);
+}
+
+
+function take(number, options) {
+  number = toIntegerOrInfinity(number);
+  return async function* take() {
+    if (options?.signal?.aborted) {
+      throw new AbortError();
+    }
+    for await (const val of this) {
+      if (options?.signal?.aborted) {
+        throw new AbortError();
+      }
+      if (number-- > 0) {
+        yield val;
+      } else {
+        return;
+      }
+    }
+  }.call(this);
+}
+
 module.exports.streamReturningOperators = {
+  drop,
   filter,
   flatMap,
   map,
+  take,
 };
 
 module.exports.promiseReturningOperators = {

test/parallel/test-stream-drop-take.js

@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+'use strict';
+
+const common = require('../common');
+const {
+  Readable,
+} = require('stream');
+const { deepStrictEqual, rejects, throws } = require('assert');
+
+const { from } = Readable;
+
+const fromAsync = (...args) => from(...args).map(async (x) => x);
+
+const naturals = () => from(async function*() {
+  let i = 1;
+  while (true) {
+    yield i++;
+  }
+}());
+
+{
+  // Synchronous streams
+  (async () => {
+    deepStrictEqual(await from([1, 2, 3]).drop(2).toArray(), [3]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await from([1, 2, 3]).take(1).toArray(), [1]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await from([]).drop(2).toArray(), []);
+    deepStrictEqual(await from([]).take(1).toArray(), []);
+    deepStrictEqual(await from([1, 2, 3]).drop(1).take(1).toArray(), [2]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await from([1, 2]).drop(0).toArray(), [1, 2]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await from([1, 2]).take(0).toArray(), []);
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+  // Asynchronous streams
+  (async () => {
+    deepStrictEqual(await fromAsync([1, 2, 3]).drop(2).toArray(), [3]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await fromAsync([1, 2, 3]).take(1).toArray(), [1]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await fromAsync([]).drop(2).toArray(), []);
+    deepStrictEqual(await fromAsync([]).take(1).toArray(), []);
+    deepStrictEqual(await fromAsync([1, 2, 3]).drop(1).take(1).toArray(), [2]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await fromAsync([1, 2]).drop(0).toArray(), [1, 2]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await fromAsync([1, 2]).take(0).toArray(), []);
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+  // Infinite streams
+  // Asynchronous streams
+  (async () => {
+    deepStrictEqual(await naturals().take(1).toArray(), [1]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await naturals().drop(1).take(1).toArray(), [2]);
+    const next10 = [11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20];
+    deepStrictEqual(await naturals().drop(10).take(10).toArray(), next10);
+    deepStrictEqual(await naturals().take(5).take(1).toArray(), [1]);
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+}
+
+{
+  // Coercion
+  (async () => {
+    // The spec made me do this ^^
+    deepStrictEqual(await naturals().take('cat').toArray(), []);
+    deepStrictEqual(await naturals().take('2').toArray(), [1, 2]);
+    deepStrictEqual(await naturals().take(true).toArray(), [1]);
+  })().then(common.mustCall());
+}
+
+{
+  // Support for AbortSignal
+  const ac = new AbortController();
+  rejects(
+    Readable.from([1, 2, 3]).take(1, { signal: ac.signal }).toArray(), {
+      name: 'AbortError',
+    }).then(common.mustCall());
+  rejects(
+    Readable.from([1, 2, 3]).drop(1, { signal: ac.signal }).toArray(), {
+      name: 'AbortError',
+    }).then(common.mustCall());
+  ac.abort();
+}
+
+{
+  // Support for AbortSignal, already aborted
+  const signal = AbortSignal.abort();
+  rejects(
+    Readable.from([1, 2, 3]).take(1, { signal }).toArray(), {
+      name: 'AbortError',
+    }).then(common.mustCall());
+}
+
+{
+  // Error cases
+  const invalidArgs = [
+    -1,
+    -Infinity,
+    -40,
+  ];
+
+  for (const example of invalidArgs) {
+    throws(() => from([]).take(example).toArray(), /ERR_OUT_OF_RANGE/);
+  }
+}