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# tokio-pty-process-stream

This crate wraps `tokio-pty-process` in order to provide a simpler API as
a single stream object.

## Overview

When you need to interact with an interactive program as part of an
asynchronous application, it can be tricky to figure out the way to
structure the different parts that are required. This crate simplifies the
API down to just providing the input via an `AsyncRead` object, and then
getting updates about what the program is doing via results generated by a
stream.

## Synopsis

This is an example of how to run an interactive program and have it behave
identically to running it in the shell. Note that we have to use our own
`Stdin` implementation here because `tokio::io::stdin()` is actually
blocking, and so polling it as part of an interactive application doesn't
work correctly. The implementation of `Stdin` is elided here, but you can
see the full implementation in `examples/shell.rs` in the repository.

```rust
let mut argv = std::env::args();
argv.next().unwrap();
let cmd = argv.next().unwrap();
let args: Vec<_> = argv.collect();

let process =
    tokio_pty_process_stream::Process::new(&cmd, &args, Stdin::new());

let _raw = crossterm::RawScreen::into_raw_mode().unwrap();
tokio::run(
    process
        .for_each(|ev| {
            match ev {
                tokio_pty_process_stream::Event::CommandStart {
                    ..
                } => {}
                tokio_pty_process_stream::Event::Output { data } => {
                    let stdout = std::io::stdout();
                    let mut stdout = stdout.lock();
                    stdout.write_all(&data).unwrap();
                    stdout.flush().unwrap();
                }
                tokio_pty_process_stream::Event::CommandExit {
                    ..
                } => {}
            }
            futures::future::ok(())
        })
        .map_err(|e| panic!(e)),
);
```