Add serialPort.read()

[devnull]

Would love to have a function which should only read a single byte from the serialPort object, alternative to .readAll()
But maybe you designed in a way that user code needs to take care of the buffering?

[Stefan Zieker]

Yes, the user has to take care of it. What I usually do is this:

var g_storedReceivedData = Array();

function dataReceivedSlot(data)
{
    //Save the received data.
    g_storedReceivedData = g_storedReceivedData.concat(data);

    //Do something with data

  }

[devnull]

Agreed, i do it the same way, but using push

for (var i=0; i < data.lenght; i++) {
  rxbuffer.push(data[i]);
}

My hope hereby is that it more similar to a pipe. As the call to the sub is async, it might be that other subs reading from the buffer at the same time.