Instructions for the buffer.Buffer.isBuffer method in node.js

method description:

Detects whether the target is an buffer object. Either true or false will be returned.

syntax:

Buffer.isBuffer(obj)

receive parameters:

obj                    

example:

var b = new Buffer(50);

 

var c = b.toString('base64',0,10);

 

var d = Buffer.isEncoding('base64');

 

var e = Buffer.isBuffer(b);

 

console.log(d);             // return false

 

console.log(e);             // return true

source code:

// Static methods

Buffer.isBuffer = function isBuffer(b) {

  return util.isBuffer(b);

};