How to listen to finish of a write stream if requests were retried?

[k0pernikus]

I have:

    return new Promise<string>(resolve => {
        request(options)
            .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(fileName))
            .on("finish", function () {
                console.log("The file should be completely written here");
                resolve(fileName);
            });
    });

and I expected the finish to only be emitted if one of my retryable requests went through.

Instead, if there is a retry, the finish will be emitted already for the first request and resolve the promise prematurely.

I want to resolve my Promise if and only if one request was successful and the writing to the stream finished with the content. How do I achieve that?

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[FGRibreau]

Hello @k0pernikus,

Indeed that would be a new feature, requestretry is more oriented towards requests retry that stream retry, so that why you don't have the intended behaviour.

I will happily accept a PR with tests for this :)

[rishav-csenitjsr]

Hey, is there any update on this issue ? @k0pernikus @FGRibreau
I need to do pipe request body to a file only when we get some file in our response body. How to achieve that ? Is there any solution with request retry ? @FGRibreau

[FGRibreau]

@k0pernikus @rishav-csenitjsr

How to achieve that ? Is there any solution with request retry ?

I don't think so, I'm open for PR along with tests that fixes that :+1: