SerialPort: readable property

Limited availability

This feature is not Baseline because it does not work in some of the most widely-used browsers.

Secure context: This feature is available only in secure contexts (HTTPS), in some or all supporting browsers.

Experimental: This is an experimental technology
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Note: This feature is available in Dedicated Web Workers.

The readable read-only property of the SerialPort interface returns a ReadableStream for receiving data from the device connected to the port. Chunks read from this stream are instances of Uint8Array. This property is non-null as long as the port is open and has not encountered a fatal error.

Value

A ReadableStream.

Examples

The following example shows how to read data from a port. The outer loop handles non-fatal errors, creating a new reader until a fatal error is encountered and readable becomes null.

js
while (port.readable) {
  const reader = port.readable.getReader();
  try {
    while (true) {
      const { value, done } = await reader.read();
      if (done) {
        // |reader| has been canceled.
        break;
      }
      // Do something with |value|…
    }
  } catch (error) {
    // Handle |error|…
  } finally {
    reader.releaseLock();
  }
}

Specifications

Specification
Web Serial API
# dom-serialport-readable

Browser compatibility

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