How to chain write stream, immediately with a read stream in Node.js 0.10?

Question

The following line will download an image file from a specified url variable:

var filename = path.join(__dirname, url.replace(/^.*[\\\/]/, ''));
request(url).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename));

And these lines will take that image and save to MongoDB GridFS:

 var gfs = Grid(mongoose.connection.db, mongoose.mongo);
 var writestream = gfs.createWriteStream({ filename: filename });
 fs.createReadStream(filename).pipe(writestream);

Chaining pipe like this throws Error: 500 Cannot Pipe. Not Pipeable.

request(url).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename)).pipe(writestream);

This happens because the image file is not ready to be read yet, right? What should I do to get around this problem?Error: 500 Cannot Pipe. Not Pipeable.

Using the following: Node.js 0.10.10, mongoose, request and gridfs-stream libraries.

Answer 1

request(url).pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename)).pipe(writestream);

is the same as this:

var fileStream = fs.createWriteStream(filename);
request(url).pipe(fileStream);
fileStream.pipe(writestream);

So the issue is that you are attempting to .pipe one WriteStream into another WriteStream.